Baer Eradispeed Rear Rotors Suck

tripleblack · 05-16-2005, 06:50 AM

My ride is a 02 GT convt. with 15000 miles on it, and I bought the 13" Baer Eradispeed rear rotor kit from Brothers. It went on easily enough, but the racket the things make is maddening. Anyone who ever put a clothes pin and playing card on their bicycles to make a ticking sound every time the spokes went by can imagine the sound these things create!

The racket is LOUD enough to be obnoxious even over a convertible's road noise with the top down, and even over my American Thunder exhaust! Only by cranking my 460 stereo near peak can I drown out the constant ticking at low speeds that gives way to an omnipresent tooth-vibrating high pitched scream at higher speeds!

I contacted Baer and they suggested I go back with the OE pads (I had hawk pads) - to no avail. The noise is every so slightly lessened by the softer OE pads, but no solution. Then I tried swapping the rotors (they were suppossed to be machine stamped R & L from the factory, but mine only had little white stickers, so maybe some comedian had swapped them at Brothers, who knows...) for a few test drives, but no, no joy there (put them back on the original sides). Now I'm out $260 plus 5 (count em) 5 rotor swaps only to end up with my original rotors on the car.

DO NOT do business with Baer. I'm saving my pennies for a full Cobra brake swap, and my experiment with aftermarket brakes is over.

Life to too short to put up with this nonsense!

tripleblack

Islander03GT · 05-16-2005, 09:49 AM

I don't know if you read MM&FF, but one of the editorials this month was about why you should leave the race brakes on the race cars.

USMCstang · 05-16-2005, 10:06 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Islander03GT

I don't know if you read MM&FF, but one of the editorials this month was about why you should leave the race brakes on the race cars.

:iamwithst

Cross drilled or slotted brakes are not made to be quiet. I have them on the fronts and they are noisy, but it's what I expected, and I'm not concerned with noise as long as the part functions properly. Even the 2000 Cobra R didn't come with cross-drilled or slotted rotors.

01ARM · 05-16-2005, 10:08 AM

That sux man.

tripleblack · 05-16-2005, 11:06 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Islander03GT

I don't know if you read MM&FF, but one of the editorials this month was about why you should leave the race brakes on the race cars.

Yeah, saw it - month after I bought the things.

tripleblack

05-16-2005, 06:50 AM	#1 (permalink)
tripleblack Senior Member Join Date: May 2005 Posts: 337	Baer Eradispeed Rear Rotors Suck My ride is a 02 GT convt. with 15000 miles on it, and I bought the 13" Baer Eradispeed rear rotor kit from Brothers. It went on easily enough, but the racket the things make is maddening. Anyone who ever put a clothes pin and playing card on their bicycles to make a ticking sound every time the spokes went by can imagine the sound these things create! The racket is LOUD enough to be obnoxious even over a convertible's road noise with the top down, and even over my American Thunder exhaust! Only by cranking my 460 stereo near peak can I drown out the constant ticking at low speeds that gives way to an omnipresent tooth-vibrating high pitched scream at higher speeds! I contacted Baer and they suggested I go back with the OE pads (I had hawk pads) - to no avail. The noise is every so slightly lessened by the softer OE pads, but no solution. Then I tried swapping the rotors (they were suppossed to be machine stamped R & L from the factory, but mine only had little white stickers, so maybe some comedian had swapped them at Brothers, who knows...) for a few test drives, but no, no joy there (put them back on the original sides). Now I'm out $260 plus 5 (count em) 5 rotor swaps only to end up with my original rotors on the car. DO NOT do business with Baer. I'm saving my pennies for a full Cobra brake swap, and my experiment with aftermarket brakes is over. Life to too short to put up with this nonsense! tripleblack

05-16-2005, 09:49 AM	#2 (permalink)
Islander03GT Senior Member Join Date: Dec 2004 Location: Simi Valley, Ca Posts: 717	I don't know if you read MM&FF, but one of the editorials this month was about why you should leave the race brakes on the race cars. __________________ John V 06 Honda Accord SE- Daily Driver 83 Jeep Cherokee W/T- Off Road Toy 02 Mineral Gray V6 Vert- Girlfriends No more: 03 GT- The Problem Child

05-16-2005, 10:08 AM	#4 (permalink)
01ARM Member Join Date: May 2005 Posts: 64	That sux man. __________________ Ford Ordinance 01ARM 2001 Anti-Rice Missle

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