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Ok, so on my 2010 STX I had a grinding sensation on my passenger side front wheel. So I did a complete brake job. New pads, new rotors. Did both wheels, and everything went smoothly. A day later, I notice a strip on my drivers side rotor, where the pad isn't making full contact. Gotta be a bad pad right!? So I get the whole set up warrantied thru the local parts store. 2nd time, as smooth as the 1st...as I'm getting really good at brakes now. Pad is still not making full contact. Now I'm pissed. Can't be the pads, because I took it all apart again and swapped the inner to the outter pad...still no contact. Got new slides, and a caliper. Put it all in. Same...only difference now, is I can actually feel the brakes gripping.
So I guess my question is, does anyone know what could be causeing this? The passenger wheel(the original problem wheel) is working fine. And the inner pad on the driver side is fine as well, its just the outter pad.
Before anyone says anything about warranty....ford considers brakes a wear item after 1 year.
Some pics
Rotor...you can see only 1/2 the pad touches
And here is the newer old pad, that got warrantied
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2010 F150 STX SCAB 4.6l 2v
"Experience is what you get, when you didn't get what you wanted."
"You can't believe everything you read on the internet...that's how World War I got started."
They are brand new rotors... both times i did them.
Brand new doesn't really mean a whole lot. There's still a chance of manufacturer defects. I did new pads and rotors on a car one time and after about a week, I noticed a nice groove worn into my new rotor with my "new" brake pads. It sucks, but defective parts are part of the game. I'm just saying, keep it in mind for any repair you do. Don't assume they're good just because you just put it in.
Well, 2 days after I did them the 2nd time, I replaced the caliper. So if I got 2 warped rotors in a row, how is it that I put the warped rotor on the same side twice in a row? I personally thing its a bent caliper bracket. But I have no way of replacing it...due to a national back order
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2010 F150 STX SCAB 4.6l 2v
"Experience is what you get, when you didn't get what you wanted."
"You can't believe everything you read on the internet...that's how World War I got started."
need brake help!!
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