with the complain of "my brake light has been on for a year or so", it is an e320 that came up from Detroit.

www.needswings.com/pics/killedrotor.jpg

 

lol what a dumb@ss! glad they could still stop

 

they couldn't, lol

 

so, I am sure he wanted a new set of brembos right?

 

na, he got scared with the bill and ended up selling the car to my buddy for $350

we then installed new brakes all the way around, sensors replaced, new radiator, new p/s pump, fixed oil leak, fixed trans leak, frame welded back together, new tires and he drove it home from the shop.

 

Wow, thank God this fool didn't get into an accident because those brakes were just asking for it.

 

It's amazing that it didnt grind the pistons down to nothing first... holy cow!! What a dumb @$$!!
Agreed, lucky that he didnt kill himself and/or someone else driving with those non-brakes.

 

What a dumb a$$. What did the oil look like? Or was it just sludge?

 

Saw one worse than that when I was working at Autozone.
Customer insisted that we sold him the wrong rotor cuz his rotor was just a single solid rotor not a "two" rotor setup like in your picture.
When out to his car and sure enough he had worn one whole side off of the rotor and was down to just one side.

Some people!

 

I had a guy about 9 years ago that was deaf and owned a Dodge Ram 3500 that he towed a 10,000lb trailor with that came in the shop and complained that "the truck won't stop any more". It turned out that both his front rotors looked exactly like the one you pictured. He was very fortunate as well to FINALLY get it checked out before towing something again and plowing people down.

 

The thing looks like a cheese grater! So lucky the owner didn't hurt anyone or himself.

 

It's amazing that rotor didn't fly all to pieces

 

Boy, to wear disks down that far, takes some superhuman grit and determination to put up with all that grinding and noise, or perhaps the owner was just plain deaf. Probably by replacing 3-5 sets of pads on the same disks and you too could have disks like that.

Funny, in Europe almost every country has regular mandatory vehicle inspections to keep heaps like this off the road, but not every state in the U.S.A.????!!!? Here in California I see cars with similar or worse safety defects on the highway at least couple times a day, WTF?

 

Rob, that is priceless! Dontcha just love working with the public?

 

i worked on a 02 z06 a few weeks ago that had brakes that were just like that. the owner had gone to road atlanta with squealing brakes and and when he finished the race, one rotor looked like that and the other separated and a chuck went into 2 caliper pistons.... people like that are morons.... so are ya'll gunna sell it or what?

 

Wonderful.............I feel safe knowing that idiots like that live here!

 

yep, I accidentally followed Roky into the neighborhood that car had to have come from....lol...taking my gun next year....

 

What are you doing on THAT side of town Doc??? You like living dangerously?

Apparently you guys didn't stop at the visitor's welcome center......they give out handguns and ccw's there, they call it a "survival package".

 

Yep, we went through that hood also..

 

I found one like that on a school bus! I had a picture of it somewhere.