Warped ROTOR WTF!!!
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Melting Slicks
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From: Hershey, PA, USA
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St. Jude Donor '12
Warped ROTOR WTF!!!
I was driving home last nite from the gas station that is only like 1 mile away, started to get on the brakes to slow down and get this horrible grinding noise!!! I pulled the front left wheel and there it was a nasty @ss looking spot on the inside the rotor, do these rotors warp easily? Cause I was just out driving it all day earlier and never got that sound and that short trip WHAM!! there it is. :banghead:
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Re: Warped ROTOR WTF!!! (DCBStingray)
Take the car out and do a series of High speed stops. Then drive the car until the rotors cool down. Try checking for warp after that and see if things improve... you have nothing to loose at this point....
vetterdstr :cheers:
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Re: Warped ROTOR WTF!!! (ITSovr4U)
I dont think a warped rotor grinds it pulses becuase it is not running parrallel to the pads when braking. Just my opinion. :seeya
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Re: Warped ROTOR WTF!!! (Duck916)
In the past, I found that warped rotors are often caused by the lugs not being torqued to specs. I think this happens when Bubba at the local fix-it-shop knows by "feel" how tight they are by the way the impact wrench kicks... :lolg:
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Re: Warped ROTOR WTF!!! (Black99Corvette)
The rotors really do not warp very easily and the so Called Warped Rotors don't grind. It sort of sounds like the same thing that happened to my 99 Tahoe. I found a deep hole on the inside of the rotor that was about the size of an old Silver Dollar where the rotor had corroded away. It sort of looked like some sort of Acid had been splashed on the metal and ate it away.
Bill
[Modified by Bill Dearborn, 12:36 AM 5/5/2003]
Bill
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Re: Warped ROTOR WTF!!! (DCBStingray)
Here is an interesting technical article referenced in an earlier forum discussion of warped rotors. http://www.stoptech.com/whitepapers/...otors_myth.htm
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