So I thought I would document one of the most basic maintenance proceedures.
The rotor on the right is the driver side front rotor. As you can see from the pic its pitted and scored pretty bad. Basically the pad compound never really grips and the only braking power comes from friction between the pad and the rotor pressing against one another. Nowadays brake technology is supposed to utilize the pad compound as well to create a "stickyness"
This is the new rotor after being cleaned in hot water. Notice the cross hatching hone marks. This set of rotors was pretty cheap, $80 for all 4 corners.
The rear rotor doesnt look as bad...
Uhh... look at the pad life left though.
And the pad composition. WTF?! Its pretty much a useless pad now. Chunking and became soft like cream.
This is how the rotors look brand new out of the package. Notice the smear marks are from the packaging grease so that they have a longer shelf life without corroding.
Decided to use this PBR brand brake pad for daily driver use. Its supposed to be pretty good and from what I can tell I like it more than the HAWK just in stop and go traffic.
While i'm at it might as well show what my old spark plugs look like. As you can see... =)
