Brake pads
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Changing pads and the runout specs, etc on rotors are different items.
For a shop who works on customers' cars with unknown pedigree; your safest bet is to clean up their rotor for a happy customer.
If I would own a shop I would TALK to the customer and ASK a customer and/or drive the car before I work on it.
That would be my safest bet.
That said: it would not be a bet it would be knowledge.
Bet on brakes?
Not me.
A tech working on a onknown car does not if he does not ask.
And BLAQ&GREYs2k does not ask / and never did because his expert certified tech response is to "just cycle fluid back and forth" in the master.
Maybe he judges the quality by looking in the reservoir... good point!
Its BAD practice.
However, for something like autos especially when you do this day in and out, I would think you would get pretty darn good at estimating torque, hence the comment about "tight".
Being in a service industry myself (airline) I can sympathize that so many customers would be coming back bitching about sound and vibration.
A short test drive will reveal any vibration in the brakes prior to working on it.
Last time I changed pads on my car I did not resurface anything, the rotors were fine before and after and still are.
And I pushed out the "old" fluid.
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Originally Posted by cosmomiller' timestamp='1369620122' post='22568668
Changing the brake fluid? Makes sense but I just did that < 1 year and 5 thousand miles ago without a brake pad/rotor job.
A tech working on a onknown car does not if he does not ask.
And BLAQ&GREYs2k does not ask / and never did because his expert certified tech response is to "just cycle fluid back and forth" in the master.
Maybe he judges the quality by looking in the reservoir... good point!
Its BAD practice.
Last time I changed pads on my car I did not resurface anything, the rotors were fine before and after and still are.
And I pushed out the "old" fluid.
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