Yikes ! Where does this leave me? I've got 39,000 on a
'98 CC - 318 - auto and my front pads are not even half
worn. Maybe rotor warpage is related to how hard and heavy
the breaking is. I just say no to breaking. I use the
go pedal all the time though.
Mike (Los Angeles - with front bushing rot)
> >>I believe this notion of brake dust shields increasing temperatures
> enough
> to cause warping of the rotors is false<<
>
> I assure you, you are an exception. I know at least 10 people who got
> less than 3000 miles out of a set of rotors while the brake dust sheilds
> were on. All of these guys were Minitruckers, so they were very anal
> about torquing the lug nuts down and all that stuff. They even had 17 and
> 18" rims. Some of em' were so bad, they warped the dust sheilds too!
-- "Thoughtcrime was not a thing that could be concealed forever. You might dodge sucessfully for a while, even for years, but sooner or later they were bound to get you." - George Orwell, Nineteen Eighty-Four http://www.newspeak.com/1984.htm
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