shaking under braking - ok to replace just rotors or must pads be replaced as well?

[localhost127]

03 gp gt - daily driver. i have hawk eps brake pads which have worked well for me and appear to have plenty of life left in them. i am experiencing very bad shaking under light braking and it appears to be time to replace the rotors.

can i replace the rotors without also doing the brake pads? or is this generally not recommended.

 

[rhenuset]

Its not the best idea to replace just the rotors. Did you just replace the pads?

 

[localhost127]

Its not the best idea to replace just the rotors. Did you just replace the pads?

no; they prob have 50k/3yrs on them (both rotors and pads replaced at the same time during last maintenance) but i am a very light braker and visual inspection looks to be about 50% of pad-life left. the rotors themselves don't visually look too bad but one or more def has some warping due to recent shaking/vibrations under braking.

they are expensive pads and this is just my daily driver so i'd prefer not to incur the additional cost of (pricy) HPS pads unless i have to.

 

[rhenuset]

Do the rotors for sure and look around a bit for pads on sale.

 

[Fivefingerdeathpunch]

If its a daily there is no need for hawk pads.

I'd get some Adaptive one (ADO) from napa and some new rotors.