I had a lady come in for a brake inspection, no brake pads at all in the rear, literally grinding down the caliper that was leaking profusely, down to metal on the front brakes, declined all services, had to put almost a quart of brake fluid in just to somewhat safely drive it out it was leaking that bad. People are dumb.
Bad brakes; Is this real?
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Wouldn't have touched it and then called the state police.
I'm convinced that that is entirely possible. There are folks who would ignore the noise and not do anything about it as long as it still stops, and then probably say "oh, the noise just started the other day". I know somebody personally who drove for months with a failing CV joint that made a gawdawful noise akin to rocks in a garbage disposal going around corners. Told him he'd better get that fixed before it fails completely and leave him stuck on the road. Guess what happened a couple months later? First thing he tells me is "This thing failed and left me stranded on the road with no warning!". I had to remind him that I told him months ago what that noise was and what would happen if he didn't get it fixed. "Oh.".
Owner must enjoy listening to
This was when I worked at a Sears and we did show them. They still wanted a pad slap only. Had the CHP come out and pull their license plates due to safety. Basically told the customer to fix it or tow it out.
I asked my mechanic friend Bill if he's seen this before. He said in the last 45 years, he's seen it at least a dozen times. The worst is when the pad comes off and the cylinder binds the rotor and they have to be towed, he's personally towed three vehicles with bound rotors.
And we share the road with them.
I once put a screwdriver down the vanes and pulled down through seceral of them.... his disc was on the verge of splitting
Ultra-slotted rotors.
I've seen it once on a work truck. The field crew took the trucks home and I believe the arrangement was that they were paid a stipend for maintenance. On this particular truck, rears had vented rotors and one side was wore down well into the vanes. When we went to replace it, we discovered they had clamped the brake line with a pair of vice grips, probably to quiet the noise or keep it from getting worse.
that's not the worst, the best place for them is on the bed of a tow.
You said exactly what I was going to point out. This is fake.
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Looks superheated, though.
Oh ya seen that a few times....also seen inside do that , and metal backing fall out and piston come out and jam in fins
You have no idea....You should see what some do to new vehicles!
I have seen this personally a couple of times. My mom’s 94 Chevy Silverado got this bad several years ago. I lived in downtown St. Paul MN and didn’t have anywhere to do the work, nor the tools. Paid a shop I knew to do the work. Several hundred dollars later it was done, and I asked to keep those rotors as proof.
More recently my niece and her husband brought me their Avalanche with grinding rear brakes. I found the slide pins had rusted and caused the caliper to seize up. The pad ground down the pad surface and the nearly new rotor to the point I could push in the rotor surface and break through to the vanes. I swapped the pins and boots, cleaned out the holes for the pins, regreased with brake parts lube and of course new pads and rotors. They were good again.
After the fuel tank straps rusted off, the Avalanche went off to the dealer in a trade.
And I’ve seen where a police garage installed civilian brake rotors on a Charger… poor workmanship all around on that one. I made it all good
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More recently my niece and her husband brought me their Avalanche with grinding rear brakes. I found the slide pins had rusted and caused the caliper to seize up. The pad ground down the pad surface and the nearly new rotor to the point I could push in the rotor surface and break through to the vanes. I swapped the pins and boots, cleaned out the holes for the pins, regreased with brake parts lube and of course new pads and rotors. They were good again.
After the fuel tank straps rusted off, the Avalanche went off to the dealer in a trade.
And I’ve seen where a police garage installed civilian brake rotors on a Charger… poor workmanship all around on that one. I made it all good
.I work for a large government fleet and there’s no accountability here. I’ve been called out to look at one truck that literally had no braking surface / rotor remaining.
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A friend of mine owns a mechanic shop. He's got a rear rotor to a Ram hanging on the wall that was so worn down, the outer disc separated from the rotor hat.
And brakes weren't why it came into the shop. He just stumbled upon it doing something else.
And brakes weren't why it came into the shop. He just stumbled upon it doing something else.
I've seen similar on a couple of other auto repair YouTubes too.
These things happen it seems, though I can't imagine the amount of noise wearing a rotor down that much would make.
