<VV> Pay someone who has the skills- recent experience (Wimpy Brakes)

[RoboMan91324 at aol.com]

Ken,

You are exactly right about the cause of warped brakes.  Incompetent so 
called mechanics trying to get the job done too quickly.  As long as it rolls 
OK going out the door, they can always shrug their shoulders and tell you 
"Not my problem." when you bring it back.  Not to be a conspiracy theorist but 
they may benefit from additional work done to correct the problem they 
caused if you don't know better.  Can you say, ulterior motive?

As far as Toyota (and other) brakes being wimpy ... yes and no.  In the 
perpetual search for ways to increase MPG, all manufacturers engineer all 
components to save weight especially economy cars as long as it doesn't cause a 
safety issue.  This weight reduction process includes thinner brake rotors.  
Unfortunately, this process assumes that wheels out in the real world will 
be mounted using the same exact methods they use in the manufacturing 
process.  Obviously, this is not the case.

Doc
1960 Corvette; 1961 Rampside; 1962 Rampside; 1964 Spyder coupe; 1965 
Greenbrier; 1966 Corsa turbo coupe; 1967 Nova SS; 1968 Camaro ragtop
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In a message dated 8/10/2010 12:49:23 PM Pacific Daylight Time, 
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> Date: Tue, 10 Aug 2010 12:56:37 -0500
> From: "deltainc" <deltainc at grm.net>
> Subject: Re: <VV> Pay someone who has the skills- recent experience
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> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: <frankcb at aol.com>
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> Subject: Re: <VV> Pay someone who has the skills- recent experience
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> >
> > Joe,
> >     That's why I recommend that as soon as you get back from the tire 
> installers, jack up each wheel that was done, loosen up all the lugs and 
> retighten them in sequencial stages to the CORRECT torque as advised in the 
> owner's manual for the car.
> ***************
> Strangely, a couple of Toyotas of mine have had warped front rotors after 
> having new tires put on; it would seem that the lug nuts were tightened 
> either excessively, or not with rotational gentilitiy.  Too late to find out 
> after the brake pedal starts dancing around, but I always suspect the 
> combination of teen agers and an air wrench could be the problem.
> 
> Or maybe Toyotas just have sissy front brakes ... my other makes/several 
> cars never developed this problem ... yet ...
> 
> ken campbell, breaking down in Ioowa