Originally Posted By: alex3686
Wow that poor Durango. How could he not hear that he must've been deaf.
Oh, he heard. He was probably hoping it would go away on its own, or that it wasn't important. Ive seen this a number of times, and the typical report is that it "just started making noise". Well for most people "just started" seems to mean "a month ago".
What surprises me is how modern brakes are so well-designed that they keep working even though a quarter of the rotor (or more) is missing. On every example of the five or six I've seen the brakes worked just fine other than the noise. It actually seems to be somewhat difficult to render modern brakes inoperative.
I had my fronts go down to the steel just a couple of weeks ago. The noise literally started a mile from home, and I was as light as I could be on the brakes after that. By the time I got home, there was evident galling on about one half-inch of one side of one rotor. Remember: that was just ONE MILE at light braking. The rotors were completely salvageable.