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No brake noise for me, I do drive it like I stole it and stop on a dime with 6 cents change. Wife always complains how I wait till the last minute to stop. But NO NOISY brakes.
Just so you all know I'm parked on the end space..........not taking up 2 spaces.
- Brakes squeak
Dealer Maintenance said, "Yeah we get that a lot. Sorry, there's no fiX for that."
So I have to drive a brand new car with squeaky brakes that can't be fixed - un****ing believable!
- Driver seat will dislocate your hip
Driver seat OK for short rides around town but after a while you will notice how uncomfortable you are.
The side bolsters are too high and too stiff and too close together.
Your femur bone is forced into unnatural angle wrt hip socket and eventually you have pain in legs and in hips.
However this is fixable. I had seat repair specialist remove seat and then cut out the offensive bolster padding- ~$200. Now comfortable like all other cars in the world.
- Also no spare - Ok around town but what do you do if you get a flat half way between LA and Vegas(230 miles)?
Must be a Z51, base C7 brakes don't squeak, if you want the better stopping performance, ya live with the noise
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2014 with 23K on the clock and no squeals here. The seat bolsters were a problem for me too, till I drilled them and now much better. I guess if your arss is skinny enough its fine but there have been a lot of complaints about the bolsters on the forum.
Hey! I am one of those skinny *** guys, 6' barely 150lbs and I have no problems with the bolsters, they adjust you know. Oh, and not a peep from the brakes.
OK, seeing as how the front wheels and tires are a different size than the rear wheels and tires are, which size spare would you rather have? Or haven't you noticed that yet either?
No seat problems. I have adjusted the bolsters for comfort.
My brakes squealed once (Z51) after the first 200 miles when I pulled it into my shop just before the car came to a complete stop - that 200 miles was the drive home from the dealer. Never heard them again with about 4600 miles on the car now. There was a published bulletin about this involving the application of a paste on the ends of the pucks IIRC.
Found it - you can Google it yourself for the details.
PI0917B: Front Brake Squeal or Squeak Noise Intermittently on Initial Brake Applies - (Dec 10, 2013)
Must be a Z51, base C7 brakes don't squeak, if you want the better stopping performance, ya live with the noise
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I have a Z51 - haven't had any brake squeak - perhaps I'm lucky. Have not heard the bigger brakes are more prone to squeaking. If that were true, then Z06 owners would have the worse squeaking problem
My Z06 definitely has squeaky brakes. It's annoying in stop and go traffic. The car gets enough attention without the added noise making people look around to see who's car is squeaking. I'm thinking of changing over to the Carbotech pads to stop the squeak and also cut down on the brake dust. This seems to be a popular solution on the Z06 forum.
No squeek in my base C7 brakes. The left driver seat bolster digs into my thigh and is uncomfortable and I am not a big guy at only 150 lbs-this is my only complaint with my C7.
The spacing between the side bolsters needs to be wider.
Brake squeak - I have not experienced this. I haven't read much where this is a known problem with the C7. May quiet down after more use. Maybe the dealership's detail depart is spraying something on the wheels during prep that is causing this (may explain his comment "they all do that")
Seat comfort is personal and you are not the first to complain about it. The majority of owners do not find the seats uncomfortable, but again, we are not all built the same... Try adjusting the tilt and see if you cannot find a better position.
I recently hurt my back and found driving the C7 nearly impossible for more than a couple of blocks. MRI showed an issue that will not heal, so I considered selling the car. I found that adjusting the seat back to a more upright position and wearing a support belt eliminated the pain so I'm back to enjoying my car again. Play with the adjustments.
Run flats are fine for most situations, but you also have roadside assistance as a part of the ownership deal w/ the C7. So for me, I wouldn't sweat it.
Our new MINI came with run flats (and no spare) which I immediately replaced with Conti DW summers (non-run-flats). I only have roadside if I get a flat.
No brake squeal but I agree with the seat issue. I do have a warble sound from rear end when up to cruising speed and lightly accelerate, car has less than 200 miles. I have a post on the issue and several others have same sound. Hoping for a resolution.
Performance brakes are prone to squeal under light pressure. Ours is the Z51 brake package and I find that if you are a bit aggressive when braking there is no squeal. Seats are good for me also and better than the C6.
- Brakes squeak
Dealer Maintenance said, "Yeah we get that a lot. Sorry, there's no fiX for that."
So I have to drive a brand new car with squeaky brakes that can't be fixed - un****ing believable!
- Driver seat will dislocate your hip
Driver seat OK for short rides around town but after a while you will notice how uncomfortable you are.
The side bolsters are too high and too stiff and too close together.
Your femur bone is forced into unnatural angle wrt hip socket and eventually you have pain in legs and in hips.
However this is fixable. I had seat repair specialist remove seat and then cut out the offensive bolster padding- ~$200. Now comfortable like all other cars in the world.
- Also no spare - Ok around town but what do you do if you get a flat half way between LA and Vegas(230 miles)?
First Issue: You don't say if you have a Z51 but the solution I used should work for the base car as well. At 1000 miles my Z51 squealed like a stuck pig on slow speeds stops. I took it easy on the brakes per the break-in procedure. Bedded the brakes and it went away.
Look at page 166 in the 2016 Owner's Manual under what GM calls Brake Burnishing. Everyone else calls it bedding and you can google and gets lots of info on why that is needed particularity on performance pads. Since you are not racing no need to do what they describe 25 times, but 8 to 10 hard stops from 60 mph to 20 to 30 mph are needed one after the other. Just need a place to do it safely. Had the OEM pads for a year and no noise at all. Switched to Carbotech 1521 pads to get ride of the brake dust and no noise at all.
Bedding gets a coating of brake pad material to uniformly coat the rotors. Good luck.
Second Issue: I find the C7 seats perfect. Better than my wife's top of the line BMW X5 SUV seats! It takes a bit of fine tuning the adjustments assuming you have a 2LT or 3LT interior. I have the rear set down, the front up and the back tilted. Have to adjust the lumbar support to fit your back. Finally got the wife's SUV where I'm comfortable and it even has a front movable section. It's now OK for long trips, which is what we use, but still not as good as the C7.
Third issue: Run flats will hold air a long time with a nail. I have a small air compressor in the rear compartment with a small tire plug kit.
- Brakes squeak
Dealer Maintenance said, "Yeah we get that a lot. Sorry, there's no fiX for that."
So I have to drive a brand new car with squeaky brakes that can't be fixed - un****ing believable!
- Driver seat will dislocate your hip
Driver seat OK for short rides around town but after a while you will notice how uncomfortable you are.
The side bolsters are too high and too stiff and too close together.
Your femur bone is forced into unnatural angle wrt hip socket and eventually you have pain in legs and in hips.
However this is fixable. I had seat repair specialist remove seat and then cut out the offensive bolster padding- ~$200. Now comfortable like all other cars in the world.
- Also no spare - Ok around town but what do you do if you get a flat half way between LA and Vegas(230 miles)?
I can fix your brake noise. Swap brake pads to the Carbotech 1521 quiet low dust and still performs like OEM.
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My Z06 definitely has squeaky brakes. It's annoying in stop and go traffic. The car gets enough attention without the added noise making people look around to see who's car is squeaking. I'm thinking of changing over to the Carbotech pads to stop the squeak and also cut down on the brake dust. This seems to be a popular solution on the Z06 forum.
Have you tried bedding the brakes?
If not that could solve your problem. It did mine and lived with the excess brake dust for a year then switched to Carbotech 1521's, 80% less dust and no squeal!
Look at page 166 in the 2016 Owner's Manual under what GM calls Brake Burnishing. Everyone else calls it bedding and you can google and gets lots of info on why that is needed particularity on performance pads.
If you are not racing no need to do what they describe 25 times, but 8 to 10 hard stops from 60 mph to 20 to 30 mph are needed one after the other. Just need a place to do it safely. Bedding gets a coating of brake pad material to uniformly coat the rotors.
In fact if you're not tracking the car why live with the excess brake dust on Z51/Z06 pads?? I did for a year, that was a year too long! I was having to clean my wheels after two trips to town, ~100 miles. Now with the Carbotech 1521's only clean them when I wash the car! It stops the same as the OEM pads and even better when they are cold.
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