Re: Consistently Warped Rotors Driving Me Nuts

["----> Bob" <mx@snet.net>]

John Cunningham wrote:
> 
> I have an independent mech who asserts that (on Audi's) this is caused by an
> incident of braking hard to a stop, and then standing on the pedal.  His claim
> is that if the rotor gets very hot, then you sit at a stop with the pads
> applied, the warpage happens as the un-clamped rotor cools and the portion
> under the pads does not.  His implication is that the problem is a culmination
> of slightly under engineered rotors and poor driving habits.
> 

Wow.. Im not buying that one. When you let your foot off the brake pedal
the pad is still touching the rotor. Its not clamping it hard but it is
still touching. Clamping or not wont affect the cooling affect. Cheapo
rotors are probably more the culprit than anthing.

Bob