Did you 86 em? If so, keep me up on any appreciable issues.

 

no. i thought they werent on it. but i checked last night and they are on it. they are just at the very back of them. i never noticed them before when i looked.

 

This is pathetic! $36,000 and weights on the calipers? Bad GM! I hate when I go to car shows and there are chips on the painted calipers.Anyone who thinks this is a non issue has drinken too much of the Camaro Kool Aid. This is realy shameful.I feel badly for those of you have to deal with this.

 

I am going to take this to very highest levels of GM. It's just friggin wrong. I am real twisted about my calipers. Anybody with me??

 

I don't even have my car yet. And the majority on this site are in the same boat.

 

theres always weights on the wheels. the weights being talked about here are on the calipers.

 

Sorry meant calipers! Post has been corrected.

 

Thanks guys(Chris/Jason) for trying to answer my question on wheel weights but unfortunately the problem lingers....I DO hope you will bring this important topic up to the big "three" as you call them....Here is the deal...
1/ Looks like p..p
2/ These weights will fall off eventually over the years....Will GM honor the replacement fix when this happens?? Doubt it....
3/ Worse...Please tell me who is responsible when the guy on the motorcycle behind me gets hit by a flying wheel weight stuck on a darned caliper
4/ What if my car gets damaged by a flying caliper weight?? (small chance but ...it can happen)
5/ What will GM do when the calipers need replacement in 5-10 yrs...maybe less...will the calipers be sold with wheel weights stuck on?? I doubt it....
6/ EVERYONE with a new SS should be at least speaking up about this with their local District service Manager at their GM store because the more we talk the more potential we have of a FIX.
7/ Brembo is absolutely not owning up to this as I have written on the Brembo website and called them and they have not even taken a minute to reply...big shame for a world known brake maker...
8/When the weights fall...which they will(think of riding over a brutally rough road....it will happen) then what will brakes be like and will the dealer be able to fix potential vibration or noise.....
9/ Time for GM to tell us if they are working on a fix...even if it takes a year or 2...just get us a fix !! Please.

 

Well, took it right to GM engineering in Oshawa and the lady who checked with the Chief engineer whoever that is.....told me that his reply was standard GM speak.
"thanks but no Thanks". NO fix in the works and the Wheel weights are on there for noise and new calipers are not coming soon.
I will be taking my fight higher.....Surprised not one one other person on the forum with an SS is interested in joining me...

 

I just found this thread and I'm pretty disappointed in how GM addressed the issue. This kind of fix to a problem is a blow to the Camaro's reputation. I'd be pretty annoyed if I bought a new SS with big rims and brakes and the look was compromised due to a quick fix involving a significant number of large weights being stuck onto the caliper. That isn't impressive problem solving by the engineers... the completely ignored any aestetic concerns! There must be a better way to address the problem... perhaps a mild reworking of the calipers to epoxy or bolt on additional mass on the back side where it isn't so easily viewed.

 

I am with you brother....Looks like crap and what concerns me is Long term.....anyways...GM does not care about it as I have made many calls and complete whitewash as expected.....I love the car and will have to live with it....Nobody on this forum has any interest in jumping in on the fight or disacussion although the moderators did say on the last podcast they would bring it up with GM but I am not too hopeful....I will be writing to the President of GM Canada and Fritz Henderson about it to make sure they know that people are pissed about it...

 

I don't mean to argue, but I need to address your choice of words...

I may have mentioned before that I am not sure if anyone is interested in a "fight". I also do not think that it is a case of no one caring, but a case of a solution being developed and no official statement can be made. I am only speculating on that.

To reiterate what was initially released...

(I underlined some of the key points.)

I was reminded of this when I spoke with the Camaro "big 3", which also included a 4th or 5th person to offer their thoughts.

One of them (who definitely knows what they are talking about but is either not authorized to give official statements and/or just doesn't want the following to be one) offered this...

I am waiting to see what the solution is for future Camaro SS builds.

 

Granted its not a cure all, but couldn't you use something like Permatex disc brake quiet part #80077 on the back of the pads to eliminate the squeal???

Maybe to messy??

 

"I am waiting to see what the solution is for future Camaro SS builds."

Jason, that is great for the future builds....[B]what about the first builds?? [/B]what about the people who ordered years ago and patiently waited for their world class car (got that) with a world class brake system from a world reknown company like Brembo....(got good stopping power for sure so Kudos Camaro team for that... compromised by crappy looks inside the wheels and most of all a problematic long term future as to what happens when these weights wear out, fall off etc....of course this will all happen after warranty is over!)
Why cant GM admit this is a big problem and get it fixed with Brembo??
Sorry but the rant about more wheel weights coming on future high performance applications from other manufacturers holds NO water with me.
This is BREMBO for god's sakes....Why dont they pipe in on this?? Why does GM not pipe in on this ?? I am an owner and they have completely ignored my request for a discussion with anyone higher that a secretary !!
Is this called re-inventing one's self???

 

My 2010 RS/SS has the weights on front calipers only. Does anybody have these weights on the back calipers?