Instead of tagging onto another thread with a similar name, created this one as my situation is different.
For these rotors, the hub is integrated. So no dealing with the hub surface imperfections, no clocking of the rotor possible.
New basic Centric rotors. I did not change the outer races as I’ve caused excessive runout on a rotor doing that before. New inner bearings, new seal, greased bearings, installed and torqued spindle nut (24 ft lbs while turning, back off 1/2 turn, tighten to 20 inch lbs, set cotter pin). I measured lateral runout and shocked to see 0.006” for one and 0.004” for the other.
Called Centric tech support and was told they're made wrong and to return them. I’m past the return date with Amazon so he gave me Centric’s customer service number. Customer service said to email them with details. Hopefully I can get these replaced.
Googling, I'm having pretty much zero luck finding folks that have have issues with lateral runout on new integrated hub rotors. So either the defect is low or nobody checks it and assumes it's good out of the box. I'd get these cut but once I add that price, I could have used a different brand.
Reason I'm replacing the originals are for lateral runout. This is the vehicle that I replaced the outer races on a new set of rotors about 15 years ago and messed up the lateral runout on one of the rotors but installed them anyways. I forget how out of spec it was but my symptoms are when the brakes are hot, I can feel them drag and release, drag and release when slowly rolling with my foot off the pedal and a pulsation when I am applying the brakes. It was really bad recently coming down a long grade that the brakes overheated on the one side - had to pull over for an hour and let them cool off.
I've had a really good experience with Centric rotors before these.
For these rotors, the hub is integrated. So no dealing with the hub surface imperfections, no clocking of the rotor possible.
New basic Centric rotors. I did not change the outer races as I’ve caused excessive runout on a rotor doing that before. New inner bearings, new seal, greased bearings, installed and torqued spindle nut (24 ft lbs while turning, back off 1/2 turn, tighten to 20 inch lbs, set cotter pin). I measured lateral runout and shocked to see 0.006” for one and 0.004” for the other.
Called Centric tech support and was told they're made wrong and to return them. I’m past the return date with Amazon so he gave me Centric’s customer service number. Customer service said to email them with details. Hopefully I can get these replaced.
Googling, I'm having pretty much zero luck finding folks that have have issues with lateral runout on new integrated hub rotors. So either the defect is low or nobody checks it and assumes it's good out of the box. I'd get these cut but once I add that price, I could have used a different brand.
Reason I'm replacing the originals are for lateral runout. This is the vehicle that I replaced the outer races on a new set of rotors about 15 years ago and messed up the lateral runout on one of the rotors but installed them anyways. I forget how out of spec it was but my symptoms are when the brakes are hot, I can feel them drag and release, drag and release when slowly rolling with my foot off the pedal and a pulsation when I am applying the brakes. It was really bad recently coming down a long grade that the brakes overheated on the one side - had to pull over for an hour and let them cool off.
I've had a really good experience with Centric rotors before these.
