Deadman
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Normally I agree with everything deadman says, but in this case, I kind of don't. Unfortunately so many vehicles have crappy brakes that dob okay in stop and go and city driving, but not mtn passes like here in Co. Especially domestic vehicles. On my last jeep, about the third mountain trip (where it had nothing to do with stopping and holding the pads in one place as it was about a 15 Mike descent with another 30 mi of highway afterwards) they were warped. They are crap and can't handle the heat. I put on a full set of power stop slotted and cross drilled rotors, and put about 80k miles on the rotors, changing pads twice.
I was hoping these large rotors might do better but this doesn't give me much confidence.
And yes, for about 20 yrs I've been conciously slowing like this as I used to race rice burners. Had to do that a lot during road courses.
My sister had a f150 and she warped the rotors on it after pulling her horse trailer every few thousand miles. I told her how to cool and brakes and she never warped another set after that....... I'm not saying these rotors are good or bad quality, but either way cooling them will reduce the warping. You can't superheat metal and then cool it at different rates and expect it to not warp eventually.