"mghirsch" wrote:
>
> > One sobering thought I recently read was that your car could splash
> > through a big puddle on your first outing with your new rotors, or
> > as they stated "on your way home from the new car dealer" and you
> > would have warped rotors !
>
Wow! That makes the brakes seem pretty fragile!
The only time I ever warped a rotor (stock standard rotor) was through
absolute abuse. Huge 205/60*14 tyres "wrapped around" the brakes
restricting airflow - no fresh-air ducting - and repeated heavy braking
on a hot day on a race-track. Front left rotor warped and next time
around scared the heck out of me braking hard from 90mph.
Never warped a rotor washing the car/wheels (some say because I don't do
it often enough) or driving through puddles after long drives at speed.
I now have slotted/grooved/cross-drilled rotors that, if nothing else,
give me peace of mind (justified or not).
I have seen the results of a shattered brake disk under heavy braking
that made a 350 Ferrari (not an F1 racecar) in a support race do a
sudden left turn into a wall about a hundred yards down from me working
trackside at the Melbourne F1 Grand Prix a couple of years ago. Scary
stuff (but proved we can all duck really, really quickly).
--
Eric
'68MGB MkII
Adelaide, South Australia
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