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Problem with brake/rotor?
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Problem with brake/rotor?
Hey guys, I thought I'd post this here before taking my car to the dealer. Ok, when I got the car, it had rust on the rotors from sitting and now that I've been driving it for a few days, I noticed that the brakes have rubbed the rust off mostly (as expected), but there's a stripe of rust that isn't rubbing off on the right front rotor. Anyone have any idea why this is happening? Is there a problem with that pad or caliper?
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maybe the pads were changed without changing the rotors at some point? You could try bedding them in real good and see if that helps. 10 quick stops from 50-10mph, cool for 15 minutes then 10 more and see if that helps.
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Hey guys, I thought I'd post this here before taking my car to the dealer. Ok, when I got the car, it had rust on the rotors from sitting and now that I've been driving it for a few days, I noticed that the brakes have rubbed the rust off mostly (as expected), but there's a stripe of rust that isn't rubbing off on the right front rotor. Anyone have any idea why this is happening? Is there a problem with that pad or caliper?
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Update. The outside brake pads on both fronts were crumbling apart! My dealer replaced all the front pads and turned the rotors a hair to clean them up. I'll probably take it back soon to let them check the back pads just to be safe. Must have been a bad batch of pads
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Brake bedding prodecure
Here's a great piece on "how to" do a proper brake bedding job...
It's a pretty good page to 'bookmark' for future reference!
http://www.zeckhausen.com/bedding_in_brakes.htm
It's a pretty good page to 'bookmark' for future reference!
http://www.zeckhausen.com/bedding_in_brakes.htm
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