My pad life with my WRX, 55,000 miles, was a little better than what
I got with a Honda, better than the SAAB I dumped after a miserable
four years, and not as good as my two Mazdas.
If they replaced your rotors, then they, no doubt, were over ground
the first time, and probably the lubrication of the calipers was not
done correctly, if at all. This last brake job is the first time I
caved and let them turn the disks because I was going somewhere and
did not have time to do the brakes myself. I have always done my
brakes myself since the advent of disks and never have turned or
replaced a rotor or had a brake problem in between popping in new
pads. Brakes are a big scam in my opinion.
Winsor
Long Beach, California, USA
On May 25, 2007, at 5:55 PM, Richard Lovison wrote:
> Sorry to hear about your car troubles... I can relate. We own a 2001
> Forester with 60,000 miles and now I'm starting to have doubts on
> whether it was a good purchase. We just spent $800 for a brake job
> where all four disc rotors were replaced as well as all the pads. One
> front caliper froze up as well. And this all happened with only
> 26,000
> miles on a complete brake job that was done when we purchased it used.
>
> Richard
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