Grinding brakes

[SlyFerret]

I came across this in my internet travels today.

Apparently the gal that owned the car brought it into the shop complaining of a "slight grinding noise" when she stopped.

I'm thinking that the slight grinding noise was probably not much different than a spoon in a garbage disposal!

-SF

 

[Jack Straw]

It finally got louder than her radio.....

 

[Adios Pantalones]

You misunderstood- these are super performance ultra-slotted rotors

 

[ROVERT]

That's got to be a joke. That would have made a lot more than a slight grinding noise. I once had a pad delaminate from the backing plate. It made a terrible sound as it started to cut the rotor. I can't imagine the noise, not to mention feel, of wearing the whole way through the outside of the rotor.

 

[PapaDave]

That's pretty interesting. Never seen the middle of a rotor before.
Noise? What noise?

 

[Flatbedford]

Probably didn't stop to well either.

 

[ironpony]

I was at the shop we have our trucks serviced at and a girl came in saying her car just started making noise, that is almost what her rotor looked like. still had a little of the outside still attached.

 

[Jack Straw]

Just to be fair....I am sure that lots of guys do the same thing

 

[Flatbedford]

My stepson's brakes would have looked like that if hadn't forced him to buy the parts and let me show him how to replace them. His rotors were only about 1/4" and the pads were down to the steel. made a grinding noise for a few weeks. He probably just turned up the radio a little louder.

 

[ironpony]

Just to be fair....I am sure that lots of guys do the same thing

 

[basod]

I replaced rotor not too far from being in this condition - removed from the GF's car about a month after I met her.
The outer face was still intact but the slots were showing on the face.