Zakhur

I am new to buying aftermarket items for my car so I am looking for help finding brakes and rotors for my 09 TSX.

At about 8200 miles on my TSX my brakes were making a rubbing noise and sqeaking on braking constantly. I take the car to the dealer and he tells me all my brakes and rotors were completely shot. Now they replaced them all free of charge and told me I must have been breaking to hard. Now I dont know much about this but I'm pretty damn sure I dont break hard enough to kill all my pads and rotors at 8200 miles.

I've gone through all the posts on here and seen a ton of brake problems so I basically decided to just get non OEM brakes. Thanks for any help!

LuvMyTSX

You can try our vendors, Excelerate and MrHeeltoe, and also look on tirerack.com.

kowloonsniperhk

FYI, 1G Brakes and Rotors fit the 2G TSX. I asked Excelerate about it before.

HeavyDuty

They've tested a 2G with an aftermarket BBK? Like Brembo's or StopTech or Rotora, etc.?

I have 20 k miles on my 09 TSX & I've already had all four rotors cut by the dealer at less than 10k miles. I had to stop short at a traffic signal on a 55 mph road yesterday and now they are warped very badly.

*Someone* needs to check fitment of TL/TL-S hand-me-down Brembo's for our cars.

Excelerate

iTrader: (1)

The 09 TSX uses the same rotors and pads as the 04-08 TSX. The front lines are different. STOPTECH has already released a 2 pc 13" disc with 4 piston caliper.

LuvMyTSX

That's good to know. Thanks for the update/clarification.

DerwoodEE

You have a link?

HeavyDuty

So...was there a big brother hand-me-down setup for TL Brembo's for the 1st gens?

kowloonsniperhk

I think if I remember correctly that it was possible but with some modifications

patcracks

yeah i'm at 15k miles my brakes are just starting too screech or w/e a lil bit...I might as well get new rotors too lets get some links up here plz lol

kowloonsniperhk

You can visit our forum's vendors websites and look under the 1G TSX. Waiting on mine to wear out so I can get some new brake pads and rotors.

DerwoodEE

I'm still iffy on whether or not the caliper brackets are the same between the 1st gen and 2nd gen. I don't want to be the guinea pig.

HeavyDuty

Yeah, right? After unknowingly doing R&D for Brembo on the 99-00 Civic Si GT kit from them, I'm not in a big hurry to be the first kid on the block.

BOOSTED09TSX

As for the 04-08 tsx brakes being the same. I do know that Acura has different parts for the model years. They might be the same size and fit but Acura didn't use any of the old TSX brake parts on the 09 TSX. They all are different part numbers. Also next week my car will be at Brembo so I will find out if they have a kit pretty soon. My guess it that the old TSX kit will fit alreadly or with very little mods to it.

Little side note. Acura didn't change anything on the brakes for the V6 model.

HeavyDuty

Good Lord, you gotta be kidding me.

I may be spoiled, my other car has Brembo's F&R, but in the TSX I don't late brake, ride the pedal, autocross or anything. Usually I putt around like a Grandmother & my brakes are obviously undersized for the I4!

I was just thinking yesterday about buying OE or good aftermarket rotors and sending them to OneCryo (CryoOne, whatever)

Excelerate

iTrader: (1)

A link to which part? You can just go under an 04 TSX and purchase rotors/pads under that. Check out the ROTORA rotors and H2 ceramic brake pads. For the BBK look under STOPTECH BBK's and just reference in the comments you want a 09 TSX kit so I can have the correct lines sent.

STOPTECH has already confirmed fitment.

DerwoodEE

If I wanted to order a Rotora BBK rather than the StopTech kit, will you still gaurantee fitment?

Colin

This is incorrect.

http://www.hondanews.com/categories/740/releases/5040

They state there is an upgraded braking system. Since rotors diameters seem unchanged, this would lead me to suggest they have reformulated the pads.

HeavyDuty

It also *might* could be that they increased the swept area with a larger caliper & subsequently the appropriate pad but kept the same rotor.

If that's the case, I would think maybe this might be a 1/2 step upgrade for the I4.

Colin

I agree, it could mean anything, but it does not mean "nothing" as BOOSTED09TSX posted. Opinion vs. fact is important.

BOOSTED09TSX

All that I checked was the brake pad and rotor part numbers. Both the V6 model and I4 use the same numbers. I just assumed that the cailpers would be the same. I will check when I get back to work on Monday. I should have looked at all the numbers before saying there was no difference.

Colin

That'll be really interesting if we get conflicting info. The release clearly says they're upgraded, it would be nice to know what they did. Thanks

Farage

wow this is messed up. now im scared to brake hard lol. i used to destroy the brakes on my rsx and the rotors were perfect. i changed the pads 4 times but the rotors never warped. i guess its the extra 700 lbs. gayy.

BOOSTED09TSX

I finished checking the part numbers for the front and rear rotors, pads, calipers, lines. They are all the same. I did find that the brake master cylinder is different and of course Acura said the directed more air flow towards the front rotors for cooling.

With that said I dont think that just changing the master cylinder is going to make that big of difference between the two braking systems as they stated. With the same brake lines I wouldn`t think the the extra pressure would help that much. Than again I am not a engineer just a lowly parts guy

Colin

Thanks for the legwork. I do see the little air vents next to the foglight. They seem to be ducting air ... somewhere.

HeavyDuty

If it's possible to retro those openings and whatever ducts, even that would be worth a try.