Re: [Amc-list] Brake shoe material

["Dave Cotner" <dcotner@xxxxxxxxxx>]

John, dont use ceramic pads unless you want to change your rotors, ceramic 
pads are really hard and chew rotors us real good. I have my own auto repair 
shop and I have customers with 30,000 to 42,000 miles on the vehicle and the 
pads and rotors are gone and to thin to do anything with except replace.. 
Hope this helps.. Dave
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "John Elle" <johnelle@xxxxxxxxx>
To: <amc-list@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Saturday, March 03, 2007 1:07 PM
Subject: [Amc-list] Brake shoe material


>
> Ross,
> Thanks,
> snip
> It's been my experience that metallic pads really chew up rotors that
> don't have a perfectly  flat and true surface.
> Snip
>
> my practice is I don't routinely grind rotors or drums unless they are
> already warped, and once ground I have found that they warp sooner.
> I have had front pads go as little as 25,000 miles before they are dead
> to as much as 90,000 miles depending on the car and whether it
> has much compression braking characteristics or not, such as late
> freewheeling type front drive automatics used by GM. My olds ate
> brakes up. Most cars that I have owned I have driven through their
> life with out having to touch the drums or rotors. Although my
> Mitsubishi had a rotor ground due to warping 180,000 miles. I bought
> the car new.
>
> I have used nothing but semi-metallic replacement shoes or pads for
> about 50 years now and prefer their stopping power and longer life.
> Sure would like to find out what ceramics characteristics are though!
>
> John
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