do you have the windows down?

 

Of course I do. You have to run front windows down on track for safety and for hand signals.

 

lulz at this thread. Our cars have nice wide open wheels/no dust shield. It's pretty easy for water to accumulate on the rotors. Don't complain about something that works better than the braking systems of 90% of the other vehicles on the road. Leave a little more space between you and the car in front of you(which you should do anyways when it's wet...) and you won't have a problem.

 

I've never had brakes not do this, you feel it more on this cars because you're used to it breaking on a dime, it's actually worse on motorcycles, but nothing to be worried about, nature of the beast, if you guys are so worried about stopping distances then slow down you're going to fast for the conditions, it's just common sense

 

+1

ha ha that's funny, I know the feeling, I learn to drive stick on my grandpa's 1964 f350 dually similar to this one but flat bed instead of dump, no seat belts, bench seat the liked to catapult you into the roof, bouncy leafs and drum brakes that felt like were made out of wood all around and once you got it going, 50 felt like a 100 and you'd pray no one pulled in front of it cause you ain't stopping a flying tank, the thing sounded like death going down the road it made a humming/growl/howling noise mixture from the low gearing/revved up 351 off of a gran torino sport, even tho it was a beat to **** work truck, it was the coolest truck ever imo , plus if you tried to get it going in first it wouldn't but it would try to do a wheelie

 

The cars I liked were the old Chevys with the vacuum powered wipers. If you floored it in the rain the wipers would stop working.

 

I'm having the same issue as reported. Only an issue when it is cold out and wet. I have bled the brakes quite a bit just to be sure, but you can tell its a simple lack of pad to rotor friction issue. The pedal is firm but you get no braking. I can tell you I have had other cars with high quality factory brakes like my S2000, STI, C5 Z06, Type R, and Evo. Non of them had this issue like this car does, NOT EVEN CLOSE. Non of them had slotted or drilled rotors. There is also a huge list of cars I have had that had less heavy duty stock braking systems that never did this either. I have to wonder if its an issue with the stock pads. I like how some of you say just be aware, hardly an acceptable answer. What if you actually need the brakes like NOW, due to an unforeseen hazard ???? Perhaps you have no deer or stupid drivers where you live I'm surprised chevy hasn't been sued over this issue yet (based purely on how bad an issue this is).
Anyone try changing to a different pad and get an improvement or change?

 

Just about everyone on this site likes to nutswing on the factory front pads. Try some different pads and let us know.

 

My brakes are slipping also but when mine do it the entire back end comes around and I do a 180 or sometimes even a 360.. anyone have any ideas as to why and if it means theres a big issue I need to fix

Thanks

and it's a 2008 Cobalt LS

 

A lot of things can do that. Is your suspension stock? Air pressures good? Do all 4 brakes even work?

 

smathys460,
Welcome to the forum! While I cannot provide much in the way of troubleshooting as a customer service representative, if you should have questions about warranties or working with a dealership to get this checked into, please let me know.
Sarah, Chevrolet Customer Service

 

I've had the problem with bothe stock pads and rotors along with r1 concept rotors and hps pads. Its not a rotor and pad thing.

 

So basically we need someone like ZZP to develop a debris deflection plate.

 

I've. Actually just gotten used to it. As many said above if its raining or cold, slow down. Tap the brake before you actually need to push on it in order to get some of the water off. And most importantly stop tailgating

 

While we can't do anything about the large-faced rotors, when they're wet, we have discovered that a lot of the brake pedal sponginess is caused by the rear rotors. Replace the rear calipers, or just try resetting them by turning the pistons all the way back in.........then bleed the brakes and the sponginess will disappear.

 

Holy Necromanced Threads Batman! Some one used the search function!