"Warped" brake rotors - fact or fiction?

Post by **jblackburn** » 29 Jan 2013, 08:35

Thought this made for an interesting read.

http://www.stoptech.com/technical-suppo ... ther-myths

Post by **regent** » 29 Jan 2013, 10:21

Nice read, thanks!

It would be even nicer if the hyperlinks for the images in the aticle were working...

Has anyone been able to access the images (FIGURE1, 2,...,5) ?
Those failed disc pictures are worth about 999 words each.

MilehighV70XC · Post by **MilehighV70XC** » 29 Jan 2013, 22:09

www.matthewsvolvosite.com/forums/viewtopic.php?f=1&t=51899&start=0#p259396
Regent, you even replied to the post.

From my experience 9/10 I believe vibration is caused by uneven pad material transfer onto the rotor. In some cases it could be a warped rotor if the rotor is to thin or a very cheap after market rotor was used. Majority of the time though, vibration is do to uneven pad material transfer. Shops just call it a warped rotor because it is what people know and is easy to explain.

Post by **jblackburn** » 29 Jan 2013, 22:11

MilehighV70XC wrote:Shops just call it a warped rotor because it is what people know and is easy to explain.

Exactly.

Post by **regent** » 30 Jan 2013, 08:23

Well said - I absolutely agree. Extended technical explanations (999 words or more) may not always make everyone happy...

I asked the Stoptech Webmaster to fix the links in their article (http://www.stoptech.com/technical-suppo ... ther-myths)
Hope we could see the pictures soon.

Thanks