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Bad Brakes
Posted: Tue Aug 25, 2009 7:14 pm
by Err
Posted: Tue Aug 25, 2009 7:19 pm
by Pugsley
well its official.. that takes the cake for worse brakes.
Posted: Tue Aug 25, 2009 7:32 pm
by FlyingPenguin
Holy crap!
Posted: Tue Aug 25, 2009 7:39 pm
by Executioner
FlyingPenguin wrote:Holy crap!
No $hit! Hopefully the front were not that bad.
Posted: Tue Aug 25, 2009 8:06 pm
by EvilHorace
Kinda looks like the rest of that car.
Posted: Tue Aug 25, 2009 10:23 pm
by eGoCeNTRoNiX
WoW! Looks like their slide pins needed greasing!! lol
eGo
Posted: Tue Aug 25, 2009 11:18 pm
by canton_kid
What is funny, that car would probably pass a safety inspection in most places!
Look through the car to the other side, the right side rotor looks fine what we can see in picture. Most places I have taken cars for a safety inspection in many states over the years normally pull the right rear wheel and front left.
OK, right rear looks fine, it passes LOL
They would have never looked at left rear

cratch
Posted: Wed Aug 26, 2009 12:43 am
by renovation
I Thought My Hearing Aid Needed New Batterys

Posted: Wed Aug 26, 2009 6:38 am
by EvilHorace
that car would probably pass a safety inspection in most places!
Here in WI, there are NO safety inspections so anything goes. I'm quite sure that a large percentage of accidents here are caused by mechanical failure and in winter, driving on balding tires which I see every year.
Posted: Wed Aug 26, 2009 1:31 pm
by Pugsley
What I want to know is how did the piston not push completely out and cause a leak.
Posted: Wed Aug 26, 2009 5:15 pm
by nexus_7
thats a great thread linked.
Posted: Wed Aug 26, 2009 6:33 pm
by normalicy
I've actually worked on a car that was near this point. The caliper got jammed & the guy drove it for months like that. When he asked me to check it out, there was about 1/8" left.
Posted: Wed Aug 26, 2009 7:21 pm
by EvilHorace
I've seen where the pad wore through, piston wore through one side of the rotor and wheel jammed because the piston was stuck in the rotors cooling fins.
All I can think is that the owners must drive with the tunes really cranking to not notice that much noise.