Customer complaints about brakes......
08-26-2009 | 12:35 AM
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08-26-2009 | 01:09 AM
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looks to be a Mercury Grand Marquis.... if there's any one car you can stereotype, this is it. Was probably driven by a 50+ year old with little to no knowledge of cars and they probably enjoy playing Bingo with the folks at the retirement home.
has to be a sticking caliper, why else would the rim of the rotor still be on there? and how can you be so fucking clueless to not notice that, maybe the car was pulling a bit to one direction and there was a slight lack of power seeing as how its a RWD car?
has to be a sticking caliper, why else would the rim of the rotor still be on there? and how can you be so fucking clueless to not notice that, maybe the car was pulling a bit to one direction and there was a slight lack of power seeing as how its a RWD car?
08-26-2009 | 02:50 AM
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looks to be a Mercury Grand Marquis.... if there's any one car you can stereotype, this is it. Was probably driven by a 50+ year old with little to no knowledge of cars and they probably enjoy playing Bingo with the folks at the retirement home.
has to be a sticking caliper, why else would the rim of the rotor still be on there? and how can you be so fucking clueless to not notice that, maybe the car was pulling a bit to one direction and there was a slight lack of power seeing as how its a RWD car?
has to be a sticking caliper, why else would the rim of the rotor still be on there? and how can you be so fucking clueless to not notice that, maybe the car was pulling a bit to one direction and there was a slight lack of power seeing as how its a RWD car?
I have heard through my years, some grinding coming from brakes with no pads that makes me think the owner of said vehicle is a lazy idiot. Unfortunately, I have to share the road with the aforementioned offender
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08-26-2009 | 08:22 AM
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looks to be a Mercury Grand Marquis.... if there's any one car you can stereotype, this is it. Was probably driven by a 50+ year old with little to no knowledge of cars and they probably enjoy playing Bingo with the folks at the retirement home.
has to be a sticking caliper, why else would the rim of the rotor still be on there? and how can you be so fucking clueless to not notice that, maybe the car was pulling a bit to one direction and there was a slight lack of power seeing as how its a RWD car?
has to be a sticking caliper, why else would the rim of the rotor still be on there? and how can you be so fucking clueless to not notice that, maybe the car was pulling a bit to one direction and there was a slight lack of power seeing as how its a RWD car?
08-26-2009 | 08:52 AM
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2 things....
1. The "buffing" is what lead to that in the first place. But it was excessive enough "buffing" to completely erode that rotor.
2. Driver is still walking around, but he / she is COMPLETELY brain dead to not realize that.
1. The "buffing" is what lead to that in the first place. But it was excessive enough "buffing" to completely erode that rotor.
2. Driver is still walking around, but he / she is COMPLETELY brain dead to not realize that.
08-26-2009 | 11:23 AM
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I wouldn't be surprised if the car was parked for a while, so that rust ate through the rotor with the parking brake on.
08-26-2009 | 08:52 PM
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Especially that beetle owners, how the hell do you curb the middle of the rim.
08-26-2009 | 11:15 PM
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Parking brake would be the center of the rotor. It shouldn't affect the rotors in that case. If anything, like above mentioned, the caliper seized or might have needed a slide service. If it's that bad and the little square rubber return "springs" cannot pull the piston back, then it will just ride the rotors til they're gone.
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