I year or so ago, I was driving my tbird and I hit a pothole. Car immidiately dropped and I had very little brakes. Obvious pound grinding noise.
Pull over and pull the from wheel, the outter wheel bearing completely shattered, chunks of metal everywhere.
I get some cheepie wheel bearings, clean everything up and get it home. Outter brake pad was worn almost down to the metal backing pad, inner brake pad looked brand new.
Swapped in a new set of brake pads, and went on my way. Another day or two, maybe 100 miles, and ive got a bad wheel bearing noise. Replace the wheel bearings with name brand, and I cant tighten everything up.
This car has warped rotors. Vibrates bad when braking since I got it. The rotor wasn't thick enough, not on the braie pad part, but the wheel bearings. There wasn't enough thickness to tighten it down.
Swapped a rotor off another car, problem went away.
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