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slight little update. Drove around quite a bit today running errands. Based on driving characteristics and brake performance, I am fairly confident nothing is dragging or grinding. The gouge is actually slightly rusted over so my assumption is whatever was there is no longer making contact...

And in my 17 years of driving and having multiple cars, not once have I had a groove like this develop so quickly. I don’t trust myself to take it apart, at least not yet. And part of me doesn’t want to touch it so I can at least potentially go back to them and show them yet another F up. I’m...

Sounds like a plan; you know I’ll be out there everyday checking 🤣 I’ll report back one way or another. Appreciate everyone’s input here. Always love the discourse on this forum, never fails to educate. My last rabbit hole here I suddenly became an expert on rubber and tires haha

You think the pistons are stuck on a brand new caliper?

I’m Long Island, so yeah same situation. Im strongly leaning towards them putting the crap pad back on after essentially catching on fire and that’s why it’s scraping the rotor. Anyway. I’m going to keep monitoring this. Seems like based on the temps I got after a short drive it doesn’t seem...

This is why I actually think there’s a silver lining for me going to the dealer since they (really, I) have corporate backing. It would reach a point where they can’t F around. All of this being said, I think the dealer largely did right by me by giving me a free caliper when they didn’t have...

Honestly, I’m going to learn how to do it soon.

Agreed, which is why I think a) they never replaced the burnt up pad and/or b) something is still dragging (temps appear to disagree).

So you think the “early onset grooving (light gouging) is from the pad? Obviously no way to say for sure without looking at it.

Dude, no way, thankfully. That hasn’t happened since last Friday pre-caliper and hose replacement.

Alright! Jury is out…inconclusive, to my non-mechanical mind. You guys tell me. I took readings after a short drive to the grocery store, one that was almost identical to when my rotor was glowing red last time. Did some harder and longer braking just to get temps up. I took these readings right...

I'm getting a Klein tools one, seems to have the better reviews than whatever else Home Depot has. It reads up to 752*. Plus, can always use an extra outlet tester...Kind of excited to have this anyway because I always wondered how hot my mantel gets when I've got my fireplace going...

It feels like incompetence follows me everywhere I go, unfortunately. My fault for not following my gut from years of dealer experiences.

I gotta go to Home Depot tonight, so I’m actually gonna buy one. Good idea. Will report back Came back to edit...this is actually a fantastic idea. It literally cannot be disputed if there's a temp difference. I touched em both last night and they both felt fine, but this will give some peace...

Yeah. Went on a walk earlier and naturally looked at every single rotor on the street and shook my head, since they all looked pristine.

Trying to keep this mindset, and thinking they reused the burnt pad or there’s debris on the pad. Playing wait and see…I’ve admittedly done a ton of googling for validation and I’m seeing so many posts (including on this forum) with similar wear, and it turned out to be “normal”. But who knows...

That was also my other line of thinking. When I had my Tacoma, there was an issue that the dealer couldn't fix after 3 attempts. It wasn't really their fault, but they didn't do an axle repair that had a TSB. Because I had gone to the dealer multiple times, it was incredibly easy to get...

Oh no doubt.

That's why I brought it to a shop, so they could diagnose it and not throw parts at it. They did the opposite, clearly, lol. Dealer messaged me asking how my experience was, sent them a photo of the rotor and said I'm annoyed...they called me and said "trust me, that's normal on all rotors". No...

Hm do you think the caliper has too much pressure going into it? Yeah, to me, if I’m complaining that the rotor doesn’t look new with like 3 miles on it further testing should be done. I can tell they weren’t taking me seriously anymore, or were losing too much labor money on me, which is...