Date:         Thu, 6 Apr 2006 12:03:39 -0700
Reply-To:     John Goubeaux <john@UCSB.EDU>
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From:         John Goubeaux <john@UCSB.EDU>
Organization: University of California Santa Barbara
Subject:      Warped Brake rotors?
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Thanks to all for their thoughtful comments on the warped rotor dilemma.
!!! I appreciate your help.

With respect to my reference to the "third world" I will simply say:

geez guys lighten up...!!! (: My job in a liberal PC academic
environment subjects me to way too much of this type of banter.

I think Orwell said it well:

"Not merely the validity of experience but the very existence of
external reality was tacitly denied by their philosophy. The heresy of
heresies was common sense. George Orwell – 1984 On the Thought Police."

-john


Jim Felder wrote:
> I have a set of allows on my Carat that mysteriously were warped
> after getting a set of tires put on them. I thought it was a rotor
> because I know I hadn't hit anything. Either the tire monkeys hit
> something driving the car or else the did the damage with their
> equipment, because I know my car and it didn't do that before I took
> it in. Putting the spare on the car stopped the problem, so I know it
> was a bent wheel.
>
> Jim
>
>
> On Apr 6, 2006, at 12:42 AM, John Goubeaux wrote:
>
>> So, I just had a new set of 15 inch rims installed with new tires. The
>> rims are the Rhein alloy models.
>>
>> After they were installed (by costco) I noticed that when braking I am
>> now getting a pulsing action on the brake pedal. I recognize this as
>> being from the rotors being warped. I was not getting this before the
>> rims/tires were installed.
>>
>> So the question is: Could this been as a result of over tightening the
>> lug nuts ? Or would they have had to slam the rotors with the rim
>> to do
>> this?
>> or is it just coincidental? and what might the remedy? Replace them?
>> the rotors have never been turned.
>>
>> -john
>>