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- From: jamesm@lunch.austin.ibm.com (James Miller)
- Newsgroups: rec.autos.tech
- Subject: scored rotors OK?
- Message-ID: <JAMESM.92Aug18120611@lunch.austin.ibm.com>
- Date: 18 Aug 92 17:06:11 GMT
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- Pardon me if this is an FAQ, but I can't find a rec.autos.tech.faq list.
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- I recently put new pads on the front disk brakes of an '88 Camaro a few
- thousand miles *after* it should've been done. It was down to the rivets on
- one side and down to the one pad's steel mounting plate on the other. (Very
- ugly -- little sparkly flecks from the plate all over the wishbone, tire rod
- end, etc., and blue burnishing on the plate itself from the heat. The old
- pads didn't have those little sheet metal 'screechers' that are supposed to
- audibly warn the driver that replacement is necessary.)
-
- I took the advice of the parts guy and non-directionally scored the rotor
- surfaces by hand with some 80 grit paper to cut any glaze and to give the new
- pads a chance to seat better. Neither rotor looked warped, but the side of
- one rotor had some scoring from the rivets, and one side of the other (the one
- which had been chewing on the pad mounting plate) was scored pretty much all
- across -- 1/64" - 1/32" deep grooves about every 1/16" - 3/32".
-
- Was it stupid not to have had the rotors turned? What's the worst case
- scenario here (total brake failure? instant warp-o-rama and rotor
- replacement?), and how likely?
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