Turn rotors, whats done to the pads?

[edwardh1]

I went to a good private "toyota only" shop this week for first time. bad front shake, they turned the rotors.
what would they do if anything to the front pads?
I hold have asked them.

 

[panthermike]

if they didn't replace them, they most likely just let them be I would think. Is the shake gone?

 

[Bandito440]

Agreed. It's likely that nothing was done to them, or perhaps a sanding if there was glazing. What did they charge you for this service?

 

[demarpaint]

They 'might' have cleaned, inspected, and sanded the pads [if needed], lubed what needed to be lubed, cut the rotors and threw it back together. Or cut the rotors and have a good day.

 

[DemoFly]

For the cost of labor I'd hope they gave you new pads.

Toyota pads from the dealer on my girlfriends Corolla were only ~$50 an axle.

 

[raytseng]

No way. If they gave you new pads for sure it'd be itemized.

The flipside is the cheapskate guy who goes in and then chews them out for overcharging him for pads that still had life in them when he just wanted rotors turned.

If it's going to bother you, communicate and specify exactly what you want.

 

[Indydriver]

Brake parts are disposable these days, including rotors. If they turned your rotors, i.e. shaved thickness off them but did not replace the pads, you didn't get full value from the work.

 

[Bgallagher]

Originally Posted By: Indydriver
Brake parts are disposable these days, including rotors. If they turned your rotors, i.e. shaved thickness off them but did not replace the pads, you didn't get full value from the work.


+1 The rotors and pads both wore together. Fixing half the issue will yield half results. At the very least I hope they cleaned everything up, lubed the slide pins and at least shaved/scuffed up the pads. Preferably replaced.

 

[JustinH]

I have no idea why people mess with turning rotors anymore on most vehicles.

The only way that makes sense is a heavy duty truck with high dollar rotors. For a standard passenger car you can buy decent brakes online or in the store for dirt cheap.

When I do brakes, I replace rotors, pads, and clean up the sliders and re grease everything. There is no other way to do it.

 

[JTK]

I agree with JustinH. Unless your rotors are crazy expensive, or it's simple and cheap to have them turned while on the vehicle, just replace them.

It's a fact of life with today's rotors on today's vehicles. You can buy high dollar ones and have them warp in short order, or you can buy cheapies and have them never warp. You just don't know and will ALWAYS have this risk.

 

[buck91]

I've tried getting rotors turned many times, usually at Napa... The results just NEVER LAST. It'll fix the vibration for a few hundred or maybe a few thousand miles but it comes back well before there is any significant wear. If you just need a quick repair on the cheap until you can spend the money on a good set of rotors, then maybe its an option... but that is kind of negated by paying labor costs if you don't DIY.

 

[dew]

In addition to replacing rather than turning, premium rotors can go a long way to preventing recurrance. Make sure surfaces the rotors mate with are clean and lug nuts are torqued evenly to spec. Tire shops often torque poorly. I always loosen and retorque after leaving the tire shop.

 

[George7941]

Originally Posted By: JustinH
The only way that makes sense is a heavy duty truck with high dollar rotors. For a standard passenger car you can buy decent brakes online or in the store for dirt cheap.


Ha, ha. Heavy duty truck rotors are never turned, always replaced. Pound for pound, by weight, truck parts are really inexpensive. A truck brake rotor is around $100. A truck brake drum, weighing about seventy pounds, is about seventy dollars. A group size 31 battery of 90 AHr capacity is less than a hundred dollars Canadian. In comparison, a 18 AHr motorcycle battery is about the same price. And I get back 8$/ per truck battery at the scrap yard.

The ABS teeth are on the rotor and, here in the salt belt, they corrode badly and affect ABS operation. So you could turn a truck rotor and end up with the ABS light still on and the ABS system inoperative.

 

[Lubener]

I do not turn rotors anymore. They are so thin to begin with and with the stock shaved off, they are less able to disapate heat and will likely warp again very quickly.Also, the labor to turn them would probably paid for one new one.

 

[ChristianReske]

The old pads will set to the surface of the "new" rotors. A new "Beding in" so to say. Thats O.K. and it will work. Its likely that you feel not the full brake power for the first hundred Kilometers while the pads set again.

Its O.K. to do this if the old pads are still good or nearly new. No need to replace them if only the disc is the problem.