Fun with brakes!SWEET pics)

Old Feb 16, 2009 | 01:58 PM
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Fun with brakes!SWEET pics)

i've never seen anything this bad... curious if anyone can beat me?

this is how thin the rotors were:
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she was braking WITH THE PISTON
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side by side of the insides of the new/old rotor:
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this is how thin they were:
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pretty curious to see if anyones got documentation of worse... or even stories...
 
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Old Feb 16, 2009 | 02:04 PM
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WTF?? who could drive that and not know something was wrong?
 
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Old Feb 16, 2009 | 02:08 PM
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typical woman driver
 
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Old Feb 16, 2009 | 02:08 PM
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Was this on a g?
 
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Old Feb 16, 2009 | 02:21 PM
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My sister did the same thing on her eclipse. I about killed her!
 
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Old Feb 16, 2009 | 02:25 PM
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Holy Fvck!!!!!
 
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Old Feb 16, 2009 | 02:30 PM
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did they forget to install the inner pads?
 
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Old Feb 16, 2009 | 02:40 PM
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... if that was your car even if it was a Ugo... you do not deserve it...
 
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Old Feb 16, 2009 | 03:02 PM
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That was on a 2002 grand am, there was about half an inner bract left when we took it apart... She told me it was pulling to the left, but not about the grinding, so I thought it just needed an alignment... When I took it out saturday the brakes were grinding like crazy and I stopped at carquest and saw brake fluid all over the place... Lucky I made it to the garage from there, in retrospect I shouldve had it towed.
 
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Old Feb 16, 2009 | 09:01 PM
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That is ridiculous...ridiculous that some people know absolutely nothing about something that is so essential to their everyday life....But it's also extremely funny!!!
 
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Old Feb 16, 2009 | 09:09 PM
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damn thats crazy
 
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Old Feb 16, 2009 | 10:47 PM
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wow...thats scary
 
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Old Feb 16, 2009 | 11:09 PM
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I can't imagine the noise those brakes made.
 
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Old Feb 16, 2009 | 11:35 PM
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I would never let her near a car again...
 
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Old Feb 19, 2009 | 11:37 PM
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I'm wondering why this wasn't caught earlier (i.e. during an annual vehicle inspection)?

 
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