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#1790096 - 08/25/07 09:04 PM Shop warped brakes while doing t-belt, how would you handle?
tylerdurden Offline
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Registered: 03/31/02
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Loc: Shyea, like I'm telling you
So as if to perfectly illustrate Murphy's Law, three days after I popped a tire (which of course necessitated a full set of new tires in a size that was backordered two weeks), my wife's car, a 94 Eclipse base, snapped the t-belt after 30K miles. Took it to the shop and picked it up after nine goddamn days and I can already, after two days, feel the lightest hint of warped rotors. This car seems prone to it if you use air tools to tighten the lugs. Les Schwab did the same thing last time we got new tires, I finally broke down less than six months ago and put on new front rotors since the car was such a pain in the ass to drive. New rotors completely solved the problem, but I don't know how to approach the shop yet. It's really slight right now so they could easily tell me I'm nuts, but if I wait they'll blow me off saying that could've happened for any reason in the intervening time period. What would SvA do? The rotors are practically new, so a good turn is all it would take for things to be right.
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#1790121 - 08/25/07 09:25 PM Re: Shop warped brakes while doing t-belt, how would you handle? [Re: tylerdurden]
beerslurpy Offline
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I fucking hate timing belts. I can't even imagine doing them on a FWD car.
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#1790142 - 08/25/07 09:43 PM Re: Shop warped brakes while doing t-belt, how would you handle? [Re: beerslurpy]
danl Offline
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Loc: Maryland USA
Loosen up the lugnuts and retorque to 80 ft lbs. This usually solves it.

Quick story. I took my evo in for MD inspection. The guy immediatley told me I wouldn't pass with my wing and aftermarket wheels. I then educated him on how he was a dumbass and pulled out my OEM manual. Onto inspection and he's pulling wheels and measuring rotor thickness on my 10K mile old car. While putting on the wheels (yes I hang out in the garage bay when monkeys touch my shit) I see him about to hammer on my lug nuts. I, arrogantly tell the monkey that those lug nuts go on at 80 ft lbs and his "safety" inspection is about to make my car unsafe when he risks damaging my wheel studs, warping my rotors, or stripping out my lugnuts.

Fuck uneducated monkeys who passed a 2 day course to work on my car.
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#1790334 - 08/25/07 11:28 PM Re: Shop warped brakes while doing t-belt, how would you handle? [Re: danl]
tylerdurden Offline
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Registered: 03/31/02
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Loc: Shyea, like I'm telling you
Yeah, I never take my car to the shop except for nails in my tire (which my Azenis have had a fucking rash of) and I ALWAYS tell them to hand torque the wheels and they're pretty good about it. I figured it'd be in one ear so to speak with my wife's car since I wouldn't be there to verify it anyway. I'll retorque tomorrow though, hope it'll nip it in the bud. Thanks for the advice.
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#1791103 - 08/26/07 11:19 AM Re: Shop warped brakes while doing t-belt, how would you handle? [Re: tylerdurden]
Chris92Sc2 Offline
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Registered: 12/21/00
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Loc: MI USA
As long as you haven't driven on it too much Danl's advice usually works.
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#1791150 - 08/26/07 11:43 AM Re: Shop warped brakes while doing t-belt, how would you handle? [Re: Chris92Sc2]
morpheus Offline
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Registered: 07/30/02
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Loc: Warrensburg, MO
Get a torque wrench and see what they are torqued to.
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