Is changing the rotors and brake pads in the C6 tricky in anyway, or could I have say the local Discount Tire do this job (with me standing there watching them of course)?

Thanks.

 

any idiot can do it

 

I guess I must not be an idiot, because I wouldn't even attempt it.

Sounds like I am good to go then.

 

Its so easy a United Auto Worker could do it!

 

It's very easy to do.

 

Most Discount tires won't touch anything mechanical.Tires only

 

The one by me does brakes, etc. I already called and ask them. I just wanted to see if people thought it was a good idea or not to use someone like this.

 

Actually, my error. The place by me isn't the national Discount Tires chain. It is a different place (with a similar name), but the same kind of people, setup, etc.

 

yes, anyone can do it.

 

And if you take it to a tire shop, an idiot WILL BE DOING IT..

 

Good call!

 

Verry easy
Just dont forget to torque the bolts properly on the backets (125 Ft pnds) and punt some new BLUE thread lock on them !

 

You would be better to take it to a shop that you trust. Even thought I do all my own work for the most part, and am a brake specialist when I worked for Ford, most mechanics don't care how much you love your car, they don't care and take shortcuts. The brakes are very easy for you to do, and I would recommend that you buy a book that teaches you and do it yourself, or have a friend show you. Since our cars rock ***, and have good brakes you just want to make sure everything is done right. Clean everything very well, relube the slider rods, use quite shims on the back of the pads, and change the older dirty fluid by bleeding it out of the system. If the rotors don't have any heavy grooving in them, you don't need to resurface them either.

Most shops will just pull the old pads, squeze the pistons back into the calipers and slap new pads on there and just rebolt it on. If you use quite shims, or blue brake quite spray, and relube the slider rods, the brakes will feel like new and it won't make any squeeking noises, except for the squeekes that the Z51 is notorious for! I changed my pads to hawk pads within the first week, and with only 13000 miles on my car the brake fluid was already black in the calipers, so I blead it out, and replaced the fluid with DOT 4 synthetic. I do not recommend going with DOT 5 at all!!!! Purely race car stuff, and you cannot have any other type of fluid mixed with it, or it will not work right.(that is a whole topic in itself)

But yeah, our brakes for the most part are standard ware, it is just the huge rotors and large truck like brake pads that give the great stopping power. And if you have a Z51, the rotors are bigger, directionally vented and crossdrilled. A autocross my car from time to time, and man I love these brakes, as good as half the cars I have driven with Brembos or other brake upgrades, yes not the same quality, but damn close to performance levels, and I have done a couple 120 mph stops with very minimal fade from the stock pads, and none with the hawk pads!