It is true that most rotors today and even for the past 15 or 20 years are not going to be able to be turned once they've been on the car for a while because the pads eat enough away and especially the older semi-metallic ones, which are still my favorite, so you need to replace the rotors most of the time instead of turning them HOWEVER, there's no reason to turn rotors that don't have a pulsation, warp, etc that you don't feel in the steering wheel or the brake pedal when you press them.
You going to have these OCD types who say you should just because you're putting new pads on there but I have proved this wrong time and time again and it's just a waste of time and money honestly.
It's similar to how some people say or think you have to do front and back brakes at the same time or even a little more controversial say that you have to replace both calipers if you're replacing one up front etc or even replace both rotors if you're replacing one on an axle.
Most of this boils down to personal preference and opinion but so many people tout or as fact and or a requirement. This is simply not true.
Anyone wants to bring me about 30 identical vehicles over and we can take 10 of them and just throw new pads on and 10 of them and do new pads and rotors, and 10 others that may have a little bit of scoring or even grinding from the pad wearing through and just throw pads on those too..
Then we will test these from set speeds etc and see if the stopping distance is affected and hard or even panic stops and tally our results and then we can log in the miles and see how long it takes before those pads wear out which is almost certainly going to be shorter time than the original ones from when you bought your car new.
At the end of the day you're not going to find a whole lot of differences with maybe only a slight reduction of brake life on any pads that started out on a motor surface that had been scrubbed or ground into a little bit from a worn out brake pad.
I know.. some of your eyes are rolling around your head right now and you're just thinking how crazy this is but I'm telling you, it works, and it works, and it works.
There's plenty of things we've been told over the years that you should do or must do that simply are either overzealous or unnecessary.
The first thing that comes to mind is them training the American people that we had to change our oil every 3 months or 3,000 miles whichever comes first. We have pretty much debunked this even though tons of people are still doing it.
Most of these people will tell you some story about that they do it and they have some High super amount of miles on their car the same as they do for certain brands of oil they're in love with when in reality they could have changed the oil at 7500 or 10,000 miles and used one of 20 different brands and they would be in the exact same situation with the exact same number of miles with the same number for lack of repairs on that vehicle.
They failed to realize or mention that.
You going to have these OCD types who say you should just because you're putting new pads on there but I have proved this wrong time and time again and it's just a waste of time and money honestly.
It's similar to how some people say or think you have to do front and back brakes at the same time or even a little more controversial say that you have to replace both calipers if you're replacing one up front etc or even replace both rotors if you're replacing one on an axle.
Most of this boils down to personal preference and opinion but so many people tout or as fact and or a requirement. This is simply not true.
Anyone wants to bring me about 30 identical vehicles over and we can take 10 of them and just throw new pads on and 10 of them and do new pads and rotors, and 10 others that may have a little bit of scoring or even grinding from the pad wearing through and just throw pads on those too..
Then we will test these from set speeds etc and see if the stopping distance is affected and hard or even panic stops and tally our results and then we can log in the miles and see how long it takes before those pads wear out which is almost certainly going to be shorter time than the original ones from when you bought your car new.
At the end of the day you're not going to find a whole lot of differences with maybe only a slight reduction of brake life on any pads that started out on a motor surface that had been scrubbed or ground into a little bit from a worn out brake pad.
I know.. some of your eyes are rolling around your head right now and you're just thinking how crazy this is but I'm telling you, it works, and it works, and it works.
There's plenty of things we've been told over the years that you should do or must do that simply are either overzealous or unnecessary.
The first thing that comes to mind is them training the American people that we had to change our oil every 3 months or 3,000 miles whichever comes first. We have pretty much debunked this even though tons of people are still doing it.
Most of these people will tell you some story about that they do it and they have some High super amount of miles on their car the same as they do for certain brands of oil they're in love with when in reality they could have changed the oil at 7500 or 10,000 miles and used one of 20 different brands and they would be in the exact same situation with the exact same number of miles with the same number for lack of repairs on that vehicle.
They failed to realize or mention that.
