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Re: Strange looking brake rotors - help. (NON LSR)

To: docb8532@aol.com
Subject: Re: Strange looking brake rotors - help. (NON LSR)
From: Bryan Savage <b.a.savage@earthlink.net>
Date: Wed, 02 Jun 2004 18:27:47 -0700
Doc,

Are "hard spots" real hard?
Doesn't it require grinding the surface?
My OEM rotors only have 0.075 left. (0.005 wear). Doesn't seem like 
much..!.?..

Oh well, I have learned a lot of good stuff that I kind of wish I didn't 
need to know.

Thanks anyway,
Bryan


docb8532@aol.com wrote:

>In a message dated 6/2/04 1:39:08 PM Eastern Daylight Time,  
>albaugh_neil@ti.com writes:
>
>That's  why most brake experts
>replace rotors that have developed hard  spots."
>
>We turn them on a regular basis. Don't remember the last time one came  back. 
>This is an industry wide MAP aproved standard repair. If it's done right,  
>the calipers are working right, 
>and the wheel nuts are allways torqued properly we just don't have  problems. 
>It's not at all uncommon to see these spots in rotors purchased from  any 
>source. Selling a customer rotors when machine work is a reasonable option  is 
>an 
>unethical practice and most experts don't replace rotors when this  situation 
>exists.
>Doc 






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