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| drive-ability |
 Oct 3 2011, 09:45 PM
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Senior Member  Group: Members Posts: 1,169 Joined: 18-March 05 From: Orange County, California Member No.: 3,782  |
I do a ton of work out of my home shop. I am doing a brake job on a 2000 Ford expedition. I drop off the rotors to be cut at Pep Boys (28 bucks) and pick up pads. They gave me the incorrect pads. I go back and get the correct ones and pick up the rotors. Put it together and the petal is pulsing and the right brake area is thumping. Have the rotors cut again, still nothing changes. Talk to the manager twice, he in a coma. Go back and buy two new Chinese rotors. Works perfect.
Measure out the rotor with my gauges and find a high spot, what else could it be right ! Show the manager and I'm the problem ! Yes Yes I know its pep boys. HE offers to try again even as I show him my paperwork for the new rotors. I'm the problem ! I went into his office and asked him what it would take for him to ban me from ever coming back to his store, would you please ban me forever. One manager was eye-balling the rotor. I told him not to try that around real techs, because its just not something ya can see no matter who you are... OK I'm done (IMG:style_emoticons/default/hissyfit.gif) !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! |
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| okieflyr |
Oct 4 2011, 10:47 AM
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9fauxteen Group: Members Posts: 816 Joined: 9-January 05 From: Phila PA Member No.: 3,426 Region Association: North East States |
I had a set of rotors from a 2001 VW GTI that I wanted to get turned a number of years ago, and was told they couldn't do them because they were a "composite" steel design and would not cut true. Was this a bunch of crap? or is there such a thing? (IMG:style_emoticons/default/WTF.gif)
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Oct 5 2011, 12:03 AM
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Member Group: Members Posts: 395 Joined: 4-December 09 From: Roy, WA Member No.: 11,096 Region Association: Pacific Northwest |
QUOTE(okieflyr @ Oct 4 2011, 09:47 AM)  I had a set of rotors from a 2001 VW GTI that I wanted to get turned a number of years ago, and was told they couldn't do them because they were a "composite" steel design and would not cut true. Was this a bunch of crap? or is there such a thing? (IMG:style_emoticons/default/WTF.gif) There is a fixture that clamps the center section of the rotor and makes it able to be machined on a lathe. Jeeps and other MOPAR products, mostly trucks, use the same style rotor. Basically it is a stamped steel center with a cast rotor mounted to it. When you buy new rotors they will be full cast. |
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drive-ability NON 914 but will intrest ya Oct 3 2011, 09:45 PM
orange914 Remember the good ol' days when you'd go i... Oct 3 2011, 10:49 PM CrashDown Support your local family owned autoparts store...... Oct 3 2011, 11:02 PM underthetire I cut a lot of rotors back in the day, I could see... Oct 4 2011, 08:55 AM nsr-jamie I don't want to hi-jack or get off topic here ... Oct 4 2011, 09:02 AM underthetire It's kinda like a normal lathe, but the tool i... Oct 4 2011, 09:12 AM jaxdream Also on YouTube plug in Brake Lathe , just watched... Oct 4 2011, 09:16 AM underthetire Here is a guy pinch turning
http://www.youtube.com... Oct 4 2011, 09:17 AM dlestep ...back in the day (1967-68), when I worked at a R... Oct 4 2011, 09:17 AM jaxdream Same way back in the day when tires were balanced ... Oct 4 2011, 09:48 AM
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I had a set of rotors from a 2001 VW GTI that I w... Oct 4 2011, 12:12 PM mepstein Same on my Durango. New rotors are same as turned. Oct 4 2011, 03:27 PM Twise Nobody fixes anything anymore, they just replace i... Oct 4 2011, 04:12 PM racerbvd Can I get these turned :confused:
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It... Oct 4 2011, 04:44 PM drive-ability I don't know why they offer the service, I... Oct 4 2011, 04:46 PM Ed_F That sounds about right. I wouldn't trust plac... Oct 4 2011, 11:16 PM
drive-ability I get a call from Pep Boys about the complaint. Th... Oct 6 2011, 07:27 PM |
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