NEexpat
09-09-2013, 07:31 PM
Got new brake pads and rotors today, at 46'600 miles.
I can't begin to tell you the disappointment I am feeling right now, that coupled with utter disbelief.
This was to address an issue brought to my attention a few months ago during an oil change/tire rotation, tech said it appeared that a sliding caliper pin must have gotten stuck and caused uneven pad wear on the DS, they said it looked ok now, but that a brake job and rotor resurfacing would be in order in the future. 80% left on PS.
Let me take a moment here to state I am very light, VERY LIGHT on my brakes. I wasn't even thinking of pads till 100k miles.
When I saw the DS rotor this morning I couldn't believe it, one side, the outside, was shiny, no pitting or grooving. Good, even pad contact, some corrosion around the rim.
The inside was..................well the inside looked as if it had been taken from a Civil War shipwreck on the bottom of Cheasapeake Bay, it was completely corroded except for a single shiny band all the way around in the middle of the rotor about a 1/4 inch wide where the pad was contacting.
Couldn't resurface because there was a deep depression on the outer edge that looked like a large piece had flaked off and to go that deep................well there wouldn't have been much rotor left.
It was amazing, my Honda Accord had better looking rotors when I replaced them at 180'000 miles.
At no time was there any grinding, squealing or pulling to the left, on one or two occasions maybe chatter when somebody did something stupid in front of me that I wrote off to the ABS.
Perhaps if I had gotten it done a few months ago they could have resurfaced them, will never know.
So oil changes, oil changes, oil changes, tire rotations, tire rotations, tire rotations, air filter, and now new front pads and rotors.
BTW= I know what some of you are thinking, I was halfway home when I said "Dammit!, I should have taken a picture."
I can't begin to tell you the disappointment I am feeling right now, that coupled with utter disbelief.
This was to address an issue brought to my attention a few months ago during an oil change/tire rotation, tech said it appeared that a sliding caliper pin must have gotten stuck and caused uneven pad wear on the DS, they said it looked ok now, but that a brake job and rotor resurfacing would be in order in the future. 80% left on PS.
Let me take a moment here to state I am very light, VERY LIGHT on my brakes. I wasn't even thinking of pads till 100k miles.
When I saw the DS rotor this morning I couldn't believe it, one side, the outside, was shiny, no pitting or grooving. Good, even pad contact, some corrosion around the rim.
The inside was..................well the inside looked as if it had been taken from a Civil War shipwreck on the bottom of Cheasapeake Bay, it was completely corroded except for a single shiny band all the way around in the middle of the rotor about a 1/4 inch wide where the pad was contacting.
Couldn't resurface because there was a deep depression on the outer edge that looked like a large piece had flaked off and to go that deep................well there wouldn't have been much rotor left.
It was amazing, my Honda Accord had better looking rotors when I replaced them at 180'000 miles.
At no time was there any grinding, squealing or pulling to the left, on one or two occasions maybe chatter when somebody did something stupid in front of me that I wrote off to the ABS.
Perhaps if I had gotten it done a few months ago they could have resurfaced them, will never know.
So oil changes, oil changes, oil changes, tire rotations, tire rotations, tire rotations, air filter, and now new front pads and rotors.
BTW= I know what some of you are thinking, I was halfway home when I said "Dammit!, I should have taken a picture."