brake wear indicators

[holden j caufield]

?

 

[jhayx7]

No. Unless you hear the sound of metal grinding when you apply your brakes.

 

[Demon-Xanth]

If the noise is light and just started, the "damage" will be able to be removed by turning the rotors, which should be done anyways. If it's been making noise since just after groundhogs day, well...

 

[JulesMaximus]

Originally posted by: Demon-Xanth
If the noise is light and just started, the "damage" will be able to be removed by turning the rotors, which should be done anyways. If it's been making noise since just after groundhogs day, well...

Brake wear indicators will not damage the rotors. The real question is, can the OP tell the difference between the brake wear indicators and the beginning of the steel plates that hold the pad material grinding away at your rotors?

 

[jagec]

Originally posted by: JulesMaximus

Originally posted by: Demon-Xanth
If the noise is light and just started, the "damage" will be able to be removed by turning the rotors, which should be done anyways. If it's been making noise since just after groundhogs day, well...

Brake wear indicators will not damage the rotors. The real question is, can the OP tell the difference between the brake wear indicators and the beginning of the steel plates that hold the pad material grinding away at your rotors?

exactly.

Of course, if you do your own work, it's very very cheap to change all 4 pads AND rotors anyway...and get them bedded in properly, which I doubt any shop bothers to do.

 

[JulesMaximus]

Originally posted by: jagec

Originally posted by: JulesMaximus

Originally posted by: Demon-Xanth
If the noise is light and just started, the "damage" will be able to be removed by turning the rotors, which should be done anyways. If it's been making noise since just after groundhogs day, well...

Brake wear indicators will not damage the rotors. The real question is, can the OP tell the difference between the brake wear indicators and the beginning of the steel plates that hold the pad material grinding away at your rotors?

exactly.

Of course, if you do your own work, it's very very cheap to change all 4 pads AND rotors anyway...and get them bedded in properly, which I doubt any shop bothers to do.

Yep, pads should set you back about $30-40 for decent ones and you can take your rotors in to a shop and have them turned for about $10 each. If you have to replace them I've had good luck with used drum/rotor places in the past. They even pressed the bearing races into mine for me. I think I picked up two used rotors still well within spec and freshly turned for a Mustang GT a number of years ago for about $75-80.

 

[jagec]

Originally posted by: JulesMaximus
Yep, pads should set you back about $30-40 for decent ones and you can take your rotors in to a shop and have them turned for about $10 each. If you have to replace them I've had good luck with used drum/rotor places in the past. They even pressed the bearing races into mine for me. I think I picked up two used rotors still well within spec and freshly turned for a Mustang GT a number of years ago for about $75-80.

I bought 4 brand-new rotors for my MR2 for $18 each

But that was special, a HUGE price match. Got a screaming deal there. I actually spent more on pads than I did on the rotors.

 

[Jahee]

Originally posted by: JulesMaximus

Originally posted by: jagec

Originally posted by: JulesMaximus

Originally posted by: Demon-Xanth
If the noise is light and just started, the "damage" will be able to be removed by turning the rotors, which should be done anyways. If it's been making noise since just after groundhogs day, well...

Brake wear indicators will not damage the rotors. The real question is, can the OP tell the difference between the brake wear indicators and the beginning of the steel plates that hold the pad material grinding away at your rotors?

exactly.

Of course, if you do your own work, it's very very cheap to change all 4 pads AND rotors anyway...and get them bedded in properly, which I doubt any shop bothers to do.

Yep, pads should set you back about $30-40 for decent ones and you can take your rotors in to a shop and have them turned for about $10 each. If you have to replace them I've had good luck with used drum/rotor places in the past. They even pressed the bearing races into mine for me. I think I picked up two used rotors still well within spec and freshly turned for a Mustang GT a number of years ago for about $75-80.

What doesturning the rotors involve?

 

[jagec]

Originally posted by: Jahee


What doesturning the rotors involve?

They put each rotor on a lathe, and lathe off the outer layer on each side to give you a smooth, shiny, continuous flat surface on both sides. You *can* do it yourself if you have access to a machine shop, but not many people do.

 

[Jahee]

Originally posted by: jagec

Originally posted by: Jahee


What doesturning the rotors involve?

They put each rotor on a lathe, and lathe off the outer layer on each side to give you a smooth, shiny, continuous flat surface on both sides. You *can* do it yourself if you have access to a machine shop, but not many people do.

Oh i see! Thats called something else here, forget what though.