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    Bad Rear Rotors !!!!!

    Finally changed the rear rotors on my vx.The old ones were crumbling to pieces. here are some pics for those who say "How can the rotors crumble to pieces?" The rusted spots are where the outer layer has flaked off and left a pit in the rotor. shawn


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    Any chance that is from your rear axle coming in contact with ocean/salt water when dropping a boat in ?
    That is some serious corrosion.
    Ldub

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    Quote Originally Posted by Ldub
    Any chance that is from your rear axle coming in contact with ocean/salt water when dropping a boat in ?
    That is some serious corrosion.
    Ldub
    No i have never backed it into saltwater. It is not really corrosion, more like rusting from the inside out. Like the metal was garbage from the begining. They do use alot of salt up here in the winter, but if that was the cause the fronts would look the same. I really think it was a bad batch of rotors. shawn

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    I had identical issue. After I swapped them for new (no name, $34 a piece) it is a bit better but not much. I still can not get pads to work all the "active" surface of the rotor - still getting rusty lines (not mirror polished look like fronts are getting... wtssup with that ???
    Andrey

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    Quote Originally Posted by Andrey
    I had identical issue. After I swapped them for new (no name, $34 a piece) it is a bit better but not much. I still can not get pads to work all the "active" surface of the rotor - still getting rusty lines (not mirror polished look like fronts are getting... wtssup with that ???
    My fronts are polished too. Those are next. I wanted to wait til I could afford drilled and slotted rotors, but as you can see I could not wait any longer. So I will wait a little bit and then change the front to slotted and drilled. Eventually it will be slotted and drilled in the rear too. Shawn

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    Same here Andrey, new pads, etc. and the top and bottom surfaces of the rotors never contact, even after repeated attempts at hard stops, breaking in reverse, etc. I even bled the brakes a couple times, not dice........
    Mike Skurich
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    the pads on the rear do not contact the whole surface area.they are not wide enough. that is just how they are. shawn

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