First of all, great site, learning a lot about the car. The Jeep is a great car, bought mine about 2 months ago, Steel blue, every option, and have 3800 miles on it. I'm having a few problems with it. I've got that infamous brake squeal everyones been talking about and the excessive brake dust. I took it to the dealership and they called the SRT group on it. They said it was normal due to the high performance brakes. I don't buy it because the other SRT8's had TSB's on it for the very same issues. I've called the customer service center at DC:
1-800-992-1997
M-F 8:00AM-5:00PM
Continental Time Zones
They, for now, are just documenting this. What's very interesting is that they have no record of the dealer calling in about this problem. So basically, I don't think it is being documented on the DC side of this. If anyone else has this problem, call in and get it documented. Keep dealer invoices of repairs done. I'm sure that if enough people call in and get on their case about it, things will get done. I'd hate to get aftermarket brakes on a new car, I just don't feel the need to spend thousands, especially after spending nearly $47,000 for a car.

Thanks
Dorin

Amen...

The squealing is still driving me CRAZY at every stop light.

I'm still braking mine in & I have it also

First of all, great site, learning a lot about the car. The Jeep is a great car, bought mine about 2 months ago, Steel blue, every option, and have 3800 miles on it. I'm having a few problems with it. I've got that infamous brake squeal everyones been talking about and the excessive brake dust. I took it to the dealership and they called the SRT group on it. They said it was normal due to the high performance brakes. I don't buy it because the other SRT8's had TSB's on it for the very same issues. I've called the customer service center at DC:
1-800-992-1997
M-F 8:00AM-5:00PM
Continental Time Zones
They, for now, are just documenting this. What's very interesting is that they have no record of the dealer calling in about this problem. So basically, I don't think it is being documented on the DC side of this. If anyone else has this problem, call in and get it documented. Keep dealer invoices of repairs done. I'm sure that if enough people call in and get on their case about it, things will get done. I'd hate to get aftermarket brakes on a new car, I just don't feel the need to spend thousands, especially after spending nearly $47,000 for a car.

Thanks
DorinWell I don't know, I have 5500 on mine and never had any brake noise. What I do is every week when the beast gets washed I use high pressure water to clean out the dust with one of the wands and wash off the discs, the discs have remained baby smooth and like I said , no noise also I am not hard on the brakes, I will slap down and use the engine when possible. Just a suggestion.

I'm still braking mine in & I have it also

I'm still breaking mine in also. :cool:

My front right brake squealed every so often (from the day I left the dealership to about 12k miles)... after that, no more noise (didn't touch a thing). I have over 16k miles now and still nice and quiet braking. Guess it just needed to be broken in!

I've called the customer service center at DC:
1-800-992-1997
M-F 8:00AM-5:00PM
Continental Time Zones



EVERYONE ON THIS SITE SHOULD CALL THIS NUMBER AND FILE A COMPLAINT ABOUT THE BRAKES. THERE IS POWER IN NUMBERS AND TOGETHER WE CAN MAKE A CHANGE WITH THE WAY DC HANDLES THIS ISSUE

I've called the customer service center at DC:
1-800-992-1997
M-F 8:00AM-5:00PM
Continental Time Zones



EVERYONE ON THIS SITE SHOULD CALL THIS NUMBER AND FILE A COMPLAINT ABOUT THE BRAKES. THERE IS POWER IN NUMBERS AND TOGETHER WE CAN MAKE A CHANGE WITH THE WAY DC HANDLES THIS ISSUE

And help the Marketing Dept win the battle over the SRT Engineering Dept?

No thanks, I'll deal with the squeal and hope they keep the pad compound the same.

Alex

Just received a call from DC today. They told me the SRT engineers are aware of the brake problems with the GC SRT8. He told me that there WILL be a TSB out on the brakes, however he doesn't know for sure when. I'm assuming the fix will go on the 2008's, so hopefully we'll have these fixed before the 08 model year. He said the TSB's are basically going to address the squeal and the grooves that are made, just like it did on the Charger/300C SRT vehicles. Hopefully it will take care of the brake dust too...

BTW, anyone coming to the Atlanta area for the SRT Track Experience?

Dorin

I complained about my squealing brakes as well as the rotor gouging/scraping and my dealership gave me new pads and rotors under warranty. They are going on right at the moment. My jeep only has 18000 km and I wanted the brakes taken care of before the consumable warranty ran out.

Made my phone call thanks

Do they need our VIN NUMBER when we call? I am at work right now. The Jeep is at the house today. :(

Eventually I will do as I always do, buy aftermarket cross drilled rotors and dust free pads. Have had them on almost every car I have ever owned, Corvettes, Lightning, Mercedes, etc. About $1,000 to $1,200 will do it.
I used to get all my rotors from the brake Warehouse, not the one on the internet, but the one advertised in Car and Driver. The owner's name was Randy. I can't find him any more.

Brand New GC SRT8... 500 Hundred Miles... My brakes make noise as well... Now is this because my car is new or are they going to squeak for ever... When/How much time does the brakes need to get broken in?

1800 miles on mine and they are squealing worse lately

Guess I've been lucky, '06 with 12k miles no squeaks yet. I've heard the aggressive pads used with the brembos have this issue frequently. My last car had 8 piston brembos up front with very aggressive pads and squealed like a stuck pig when stopping about 60% of the time since new for the 40K+ miles that I had it. It was unbelievably disconcerting in stop and go traffic. Dealers and Factory reps did allot of tweaking (and multiple free brake pad installs) but at the end of the day they said once I'm paying for my own I should just get a less aggressive pad (as long as I'm not needing the track capability) and it should stop. I'd argue that in this day of all the arm chair test drivers having the stopping distance be up to or better than spec from the factory outweighs the nuisance but again I'm not having that issue yet...:)

I spoke with my service department yesterday and they said that a "hold" has been issued on all brake replacements. He said that they were only going to replace brakes that were dangerous as a "fix" was soon to be released.