So here’s the deal… I live in SE Michigan, lots of road salt and rust. Just the way it is. My Sedona is actually still pretty rust-free despite its age, surprisingly. This past February we drove it to Florida for a couple weeks. I noticed something strange once we got there though… a week or so after we arrived, it developed a rubbing sound from the front brakes; sounded kind of like a chunk or rust broke off and got stuck between the rotor and the dust shield. You know the sound. Almost if something was dragging; you could really hear it at low speeds, and was not there before. For the record, all rotors and pads were less than 2 years old, and the rotors were the Raybestos Element3 coated type. Fast forward to a couple weeks ago, I had the vehicle in the shop for some unrelated work, and the tech advised me that the front rotors needed replacing NOW because the inner veins had swollen with rust and bulged the rotor. Sure enough, he was right. They were bad. I could even feel the pulsing under braking. But the issue didn’t exist until we arrived in Florida.
Here’s another one… I just did an oil change on the vehicle today. It has the original oil drain plug, which was previously virtually rust-free on the outside. This time, it was covered in rust. I previously changed the oil in December, before we drove to Florida. Maybe the salty air did a number on my van? We stayed very near the gulf for 3 weeks FWIW.
Here’s another one… I just did an oil change on the vehicle today. It has the original oil drain plug, which was previously virtually rust-free on the outside. This time, it was covered in rust. I previously changed the oil in December, before we drove to Florida. Maybe the salty air did a number on my van? We stayed very near the gulf for 3 weeks FWIW.
