Never F***ing do this, YOU HEAR ME!!! DUW

[PvtJoker]

This was on one of my customers cars. I have never seen this before in my life, and it was a bitch, after driving it to our workshop, getting the tires off the damn thing was welded to the rotor. They told us that it was just past the screachers.......MY ASS!!!!!!

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v141/pvtjoker/Customrers%20Cars/never.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v141/pvtjoker/Customrers%20Cars/never2.jpg

And Here is the old one, sitting below the new one, *Notice, we got the wheel off at 8:50 and all auto stores close at 9. So I had to drive about 75 up our main drag to get there on time.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v141/pvtjoker/Customrers%20Cars/never3.jpg

[85 Notchback]

pictures no worky

EDIT Okay they do now! WTF is going on there. they welded what to what!!! Its a wonder they haven't killed anyone yet :roll:

[50 Proof]

wow thats some messed up stuff. I'd hate to have to work on that.

[PvtJoker]

now they do. I was moving them around in my photobucket.

[Paul86gt]

this is totally insane, how do people allow there cars to get like that, havn't they ever heard of maintance. That is just plain insane, I mean thats there lives and and who ever they hits lives in those brakes who do they think there kidding saying it was just down to the squeakers. Thats just insane. The only good thing about it is you can charge them out the you know what and make them think twice about abusing there car and taking the chance of killing themselves and someone else.

[fordfreak300]

I hav enever seen rotars that had lose lines in them? talking about the old rotors.

[Anonymous]

when I got my 1980 Mustang the orignial owner told me that I'll have to do the brakes right away, he said he put new pads on there, but they'd maybe get me home...

I got home, and 6 of the fins were exposed on the rotor on the passanger side, and the drivers side was cracked in 3 places.

it was pretty bad, but at least I was expecting it.

--Dave.

[lx460]

Joker, I'm gonna steal your idea. I'm gonna patent that baby. Forget about cross drilling or slotted rotors, those must have super cooling.
Seriously, people that are that lax about maintenance shouldn't be allowed to drive. Terrible. Funny...but terrible. 8O

[lx460]

This was on one of my customers cars. I have never seen this before in my life, and it was a bitch

I think we all knew it was a woman driver, but try and be a little more P.C. 8) j/k

[PvtJoker]

I think we all knew it was a woman driver, but try and be a little more P.C. 8) j/k

You are 100% correct, it was a woman driver, and she delivers newspaper bundles none the less. She called us up and told us that she needs to get her paper route done the next day which would be today and that its gotten hard to stop. We drove it to our shop and at one point we almost had to stop and call a tow truck because he was using the ebrake to make it stop. I was in front of him, just for an "in-case" and one one hill at a stoplight he actually ran into my bumper.

And 85 Notch, the little metal piece that holds the pad, had actually got so hot that it fused itself with the rotor, we had to beat it off with a hammer. You can kind of tell on the bottome of the bad rotor where there is a black spot......Yeah, idiots.

Yeah. Thank god I haven't got to the point to paint my car yet. But We're shooting to be done with my car at the end of september, early october. And this will only happen if we stop getting retards for customers.

P.S. She had that hair that sticks out like 2 feet all around. Something you'd see in the sixties but BIGGER. Looks like a normal haircuit, just expanded about 400%

[1quick95]

We had a few customer cars like that,and it was always "it just started making noise" I dont think some people realize how dangerous some of the stuff they do is.

[85stang]

I knew a guy that did that, but he never said anything and his dad owns a repair shop. :nuts:

[negusm]

I have never seen rotars that had lose lines in them? talking about the old rotors.

I believe if you look at a NEW rotor, from the side it looks like a sandwich. There are 3 layers. The two outer are metal and the INNER one is mostly air with those "bars" separating the outer layers.

Apparantly this moron COMPLETELY wore out one of the outer layers.

http://www.moderncasting.com/archive/WebOnly/1102/al_05.jpg

[negusm]

#$%^@#$@%@%@% DAMMIT!

DOUBLE POST!

I keep getting SMTP connection errors and my posts didn't look like they were going through. It looks like the FEP board's SMTP server is DOWN.

Sorry!

-Mike

[mfpmax]

You weird guys having forum issues.

Nevermind, just got my first DEBUG error.

[85CapriGS]

I have never seen rotars that had lose lines in them? talking about the old rotors.

Those "lines" are the vanes in between the two smooth surfaces of the rotor. They are there if I am not mistaken for cooling. This means that she wore completely through one side of the brake rotor.. :roll: Moron!

[SVTWannabe]

How can anybody be that ignorant? I mean, when your car goes from grinding, to what common sense would tell me is a jerking motion, how the hell do you not notice?!?!? I am glad to see that I am not the only one getting the debug message.

[Tar 71]

8O That is unbelievable. I cant believe that people abuse their cars so much. The IQ of the average person I believe is equal to that of an eggplant. She said it just started squeeking (UH,RIGHT!). WOW, some people.

[fordfreak300]

yeah I actually knew what they were. I was being sorta sarcastic. Although truthfully I have never seen rotors warped that bad to actually truely see it.

[Mumfts85gt]

Unbelievable! Did anyone check this person for a pulse or brain activity? Apparently it's not as uncommon as it should be... sad.

[moelll]

WTF?!?!?!?!?!?!!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!

i have seriously never seen that before, that makes me sick looking at it.

it kinda looks like a clutch if you think about it.

....and i thought that my sister nearly killing the van was stupid... (poor van, two crashes, near engine seize, me, and it still chugging along. you cant kill a '93 Aerostar 3.0)

[Zap's 85 GT]

It happens. Seen a rotor like that about 13 years ago at on the counter at the local Pep Boys. Thay had it on display as kind of an advertisment for thair brake service. Lol.

[Mike 83 GLX]

I have one of those hanging on the back wall of my garage, lol. I kept it as a souvenir from a brake job I did a few years ago for my mom's neighbor....The car was driven by a man, believe it or not. ;)

[Matt82GT]

8O stock vented rotors,lol. It looks like the tire has never been removed since it rolled off the showroom floor,everything is rusted.Doesnt even looks like the pads have been changed in the past 30 years. How long did that take? That woman should not be allowed to have children. :roll: :lol:

[Evil86lx]

8O stock vented rotors,lol. It looks like the tire has never been removed since it rolled off the showroom floor,everything is rusted.Doesnt even looks like the pads have been changed in the past 30 years. How long did that take? That woman should not be allowed to have children. :roll: :lol:

The rust is very typical of the Iowa/Nebraska region.. Winter's are very cold with ALOT of ice storms etc etc.. You will see 5 year old car's with rusty doors and quarters.

This kind of abuse is also very typical.. Their are very few good paying jobs in alot of the small towns in that area. This equals to very little income. So people will do the bare minimum to keep their car's running..

These are yet more reasons why i dont live their anymore..

kyle

[Matt82GT]

5 years? damn! Ive been through a North Dakota winter so i kinda know about the ice and snow stuff.Had an ice storm come through in November of 01,coated the whole town of Grand Forks with about an inch of ice.A nice fresh clearcoat :lol: Shut the town down for a few days,took a toll on my paycheck :( :x

[negusm]

If your state uses salt during the winter, cars will show rust underneath in as little as 3 years.

When I moved down here in 1999, every mechanic bitched at me about what a PITA my 1996 Probe GT was to work on as just about bolt had seized up with corrosion and rust. The car was only 3.5 years old.

Salt is wicked wicked hard on cars. It causes crazy electrical problems too.

-Mike

[85 Notchback]

You guys have never been through a Canadian winter... It snoewed today for the first time since...hmmm May? The salt and gravel the roads here the temperatures drop as low as -40 Celcius sometimes -55 with a wind chill, everything is black ice, wie get 6 foot snow banks on the sides of the roads, and Highways, and most nights the highways are closed because they are covered in snow and ice, I know driving between my mom and dads houses (about 100 Miles) I have seen as many as 45 cars in the ditch (snowbanks) on the highway in a single drive... Not to mention the ones in the city.. If you don't take car of your cars here 1 winter and the rust is a comin.. my stang is already starting to rust on the doors hood deck lid and fenders, and everything was sandblasted sealed primed sealed painted then cleared over last july... F Canadian winters! You guys got it easy... but we don't cheap out on brakes.. we need those here..

[Hooptie]

lowest wind chill I can remember in Kansas in my lifetime is about -45....yeah, I was at the bus stop that day too...lol

[Evil86lx]

lowest wind chill I can remember in Kansas in my lifetime is about -45....yeah, I was at the bus stop that day too...lol

7 years ago we had -45 in Omaha Nebraske. Old people where dropping dead left and right. Their was no way in hell your defrost could keep the windshield clean of nice.

kyle

[85 Notchback]

lowest wind chill I can remember in Kansas in my lifetime is about -45....yeah, I was at the bus stop that day too...lol

I was at my cabin once with my dad a few years ago and the cabin is heated by propane, also our truck runs on propane. I remember it got to -52 one day while we were there, all the propane jelled :? I think I stayed in bed most of the day with like 5 army sleeping bags over me.. Then we went out and snowmobiled when it warmed up to -39 woo hoo...

[Matt82GT]

"warmed up to -39" haha. I lived in Grand Forks ND(for 11 months),bout an hour south of Canada. Big storm hit in Oct. 01,got 12" less than a day,that was fun stuff lol.It made the paper here in Az too.My first blizzard :D As cold as it gets there,i kinda miss that place,only about 5-6k people there.

[madmike8]

Yup... I've seen that before... Was my Ex-Brother-inlaw... Sad part is he was asking the Parts Man for a rotor with fins on one side because he thought they came that way... sigh... From what I heard all the Parts Guys had a real good laugh...