2011 Ram Shuddering while Braking

[Speedy1973]

So, I've had this truck for a few months now, and I absolutely love it, All but the fact, that it's now developed a really hard shudder under medium to hard braking. By shudder, I'm meaning I can feel it in the pedal, almost the same way you can feel the ABS pulsing when you nail the brakes really hard.

The problem is now to the point where under a decent braking load, you can feel the steering wheel shake quite bad too.

I'm just curious to know if this might be the cause of a warped brake rotor? It's got disks at all 4 corners. What do you guys think? It's only got 47k on it.

[Scottydoggs]

needs new rotors and pads up front for sure, maybe the backs too.

pop the wheels off take a look for deep grooves or the pads being low on meat.

[Speedy1973]

I've been kinda holding off on pulling it apart right now, as it's going in for a service very soon. I was gonna have them pull the wheels and have a look while it's on a hoist, dont really feel like jacking it up on my stone driveway

When driving it easy, and braking lightly, there's no problems at all with it, So i've been taking it easy till it's service time.

[Fivefingerdeathpunch]

Yup, sounds like the front rotors.

You can take a digital caliper tool sometimes and run it around the rotor and see how big the numbers change.

If it was my truck, I would do new rotors/pads up front and just turn the rear rotors if the pads looked decent.