So what led you to Bitog when this happened?
Brakes on fire
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The other thing is with that much drag it must have been quite noticeable. I once had a dragging caliper on my BMW and it was very apparent that something was wrong, and I had no fire nor smoke.
I have some magnesium ones
They were not available on the Tahoe that year.
Thing is there was no drag or noise, it was an actual fire coming from both sides. put it out with a fire extinguisher.
What brand pads did they install? The cheapest Chinese cardboard version they could source? Ceramic wouldn't actually burn.
Wait, you’re saying the wheels were actually burning?
Just got off the phone with the corporate office, they are taking full responsibility, they havent said what caused it, but they are refunding the original cost of the brake job, installing new calipers, brakes and rotors and tires as well as providing a rental car and reimbursing me for the tow and any other damage that was caused by the fire.
no the calipers
Not his lol, but magnesium wheels can....
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yeah, they know they would have lost if it was worse than it already is and you both ended up in court..
you have a pretty strong case if they wouldn't take care of it..
this story also explains why most auto repair facilities err on the side of caution and oversell a brake job.. liability...
Heres the kicker, the mechanic is trying to say he warned me this would happen and I chose to decline calipers. So if he knew this would happen he never should have done the brake job lol He sent us all on a death ride. Never once did they say calipers needed to be replaced and neither did the 1st shop I got an estimate from.
Not from a typical brake fire. It takes a lot to ignite wheels like that, such as an intensive gasoline fire.
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generally,if a shop says you have to have something replaced that is a major safety concern and you decline it, it will be in writing... and they possibly wont even perform the work if they think it is that unsafe... so its just CYA on the mokanix part at this point.. either way, it sounds like you dodged a bullet and someobdy else got hit..
The shop did an incompetent brake job. Those don't look like new rotors - or I would say they didn't clean the protective cosmoline** off them. Another issue is they didn't remove rust where pad ears may locate above the stainless steel inserts causing jamming.
Also have witnessed pad locating ears overly wide due to poor stamping/blanking on a worn die. That will jam the pads
ABS may have balked due to back flow of old, junk fluid if hydraulics "shortcutted" and not bled or cycled.
Sadly, typical of what I have seen and experienced around here at corporate muffler and tire shops. They throw parts at things without any of the required finessing. Poor training, lack of experience and laziness. Pick one or three.
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Had to be the brake fluid on fire, maybe he left the bleeders cracked? That might prevent the calipers from retracting, and fluid to leak.
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