[Diy_efi] OT: crappy ford expedition rotors?

Justin Albury justin at jacomms.com
Mon Feb 28 07:14:17 GMT 2005


Yeh sad isnt it!!!!  gone are the days of long lasting brake rotors.  This is
the same in Australia .....and no sizes cast into rotors any more, all specs are
in service books.. but in OZ ya cam pick up a good set of cross drilled and
sloted rotors for not all that more than std.

Justin

Quoting Steve Ravet <Steve.Ravet at arm.com>:

> They called after my wife dropped it off for it's 40,000 mile service:
> "You need new front rotors."  I told them to replace them but send the
> old ones back with the car.  They were worn about .04" on each side.
> They resurfaced one and it ended up being below minimum thickness.  I
> have 2 Chevys with well over 200K miles each, both of which are on their
> original front rotors.  So I have 2 questions:  1)  Has anyone else had
> rotor wear problems like this on their Ford product?  2)  The turned
> rotor measures 1.055" thick.  Is that below spec?  I usually see the min
> diameter stamped on the rotor but not on these.
> 
> thanks, please reply privately,
> 
> --steve
> 
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