Have to share these pics-WORN brakes
01-22-2012, 01:10 PM
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I have been in the trade for about 20 years and have seen them get to that point twice but will have to give it to that one. In the one pic is seems that the brake was still trying to its job but the rusty side looks like it gave up awhile back. What i want to know is how the hell are the pistons still in the bores and she didnt have to have a 5 gallon bucket of dot 3 in place of the reservoir lol. I hope you hit them with a super dumb **** fee. Good thing she didnt go to just brakes that would of been a 1000 dollar brake job haha.
01-22-2012, 01:25 PM
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i had this happen to my before, on a 92 camaro that I just had the brakes redone on 3 weeks earlier, (new pads, caliper, brake hose on driver side) thats what I paid for anyways. well after about 3 weeks I started getting this grinding sound, then it got real bad the next day and everytime i hit the brakes the whole car would jump it semed. I pulled into the closest shop and left it there for them to look at, he called me back and told me he never seen rotors like that in all 20 years of his business. the driver side outside rotor was completly gone all the way into the fins, the passenger side rotor had 2 quarter inch deep grooves in the rotor but other than that wasnt to bad. up until those 3 days the car stopped just fine and made no indication of any problems
01-22-2012, 01:28 PM
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Damn guys, I had one eerily similar 2 weeks ago here in GA. Rear rotor on this mazda was suppose to be 8mm thick. The outboard pad was gone (friction and metal). The caliper and rotor were touching each other. The pins seized and believe it or not the inboard pad was still functioning. The rotor was 1.6 mm thick and the caliper (where the outboard pad sits) was about 80% worn too. 
Customer had to tow it in, because she couldn't stand to hear the noise anymore.. The thing I don't get is why don't these people assume there is something wrong when they see the sparks coming from there cars during braking at nighttime??? lol
I don't know how these people passed there driver's test. We don't have safety inspections here either.
Customer had to tow it in, because she couldn't stand to hear the noise anymore.. The thing I don't get is why don't these people assume there is something wrong when they see the sparks coming from there cars during braking at nighttime??? lol
I don't know how these people passed there driver's test. We don't have safety inspections here either.
01-24-2012, 12:30 AM
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wtf? so why do i in NC have to have an inspection. /\ ******* california doesnt even do
them.
do you know what that means? Justin Beiber didnt have to get an inspection sticker!!!!!
or lindsey lohan, the kardasians, Jersey shore douches(you know they are in h-town), etc also didnt.
them.
do you know what that means? Justin Beiber didnt have to get an inspection sticker!!!!!
or lindsey lohan, the kardasians, Jersey shore douches(you know they are in h-town), etc also didnt.
01-24-2012, 12:57 AM
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wtf? so why do i in NC have to have an inspection. /\ ******* california doesnt even do
them.
do you know what that means? Justin Beiber didnt have to get an inspection sticker!!!!!
or lindsey lohan, the kardasians, Jersey shore douches(you know they are in h-town), etc also didnt.
them.
do you know what that means? Justin Beiber didnt have to get an inspection sticker!!!!!
or lindsey lohan, the kardasians, Jersey shore douches(you know they are in h-town), etc also didnt.
01-25-2012, 09:25 PM
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When I had my shop a had a customer come in with rotors like that but fairly new pads, they proceeded to tell me that their cousin just did them a week ago and that he is a master mechanic and that I'm trying to rip them off
I actually laughed in there face
I actually laughed in there face
01-26-2012, 10:34 AM
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..what? 
How is this not destroying the pads? How can you even drive like that? There'd be a HORRIBLE vibration.
i'd hate to be the guy behind them when the thin shards of what used to be the contact surface broke away from that.
How is this not destroying the pads? How can you even drive like that? There'd be a HORRIBLE vibration.
i'd hate to be the guy behind them when the thin shards of what used to be the contact surface broke away from that.
