If I had not seen this myself I would not have believed it.

Customer brought in his box van complaining it was hard to stop.

 

seen it to many times. they just turn the radio up so they can't hear the noise

 

That guy should be ashamed!

 

I had a kid come up to me and say the same thing. They apparently were squealing so he used wd-40 on them. Takes all kinds doesn't it. Cheerio

 

One of my co-workers daughter came in with her rear brake drums cut completely through. Samething, she turned up the radio.

 

Iv'e seen lots of eaten up brakes but never seen them all the way through the rotors like this.

 

I have a buddy that told me about changing the oil on a customers car. He pulled the drain plug and nothing came out. After poking a screwdriver through the sludge at the bottom of the pan it began to drain... slowly. Some people can't process beyond putting the key in the ignition

 

I had the same kid bring in his 2011 car for suspension work every three months ,maybe even sooner from hitting things . He always payed out of pocket so his insurance won't go up .I have replaced the subframe three times ,the first .he painted his calipers and forgot to bolt them on
Just last week he came in for a alignment and he had another bent subframe I felt like throwing his keys and buying him a bus pass !

 

Scary right. Got to be careful buying someone else's used car, especially when you don't know the history.

 

Holy holed rotors, Batman!!

 

I, too, saw the "cut drums" phenomenon once.

I was in getting a car inspected, the guy working on the car in the next bay said, "Hey, guys, get a load of this!" and everyone looked his way - he removed the portions of the drums that slide onto the lug studs as though they were plates, then removed two circular hoops that used to be the inner parts of the drums. The shoes had worn through the linings, then through the metal behind the linings, then the perpendicular ridges had cut through the drums like knives.

The lady driving the car said they'd made noise for a while, but then stopped.

- Eric

 

I've heard of that before....box van has the new type of air brakes.

 

Actually, brakes are a tender subject for me right now. I just finished replacing the front callipers on my 79 SLC, as they were seized on....then my 90 E-250 needed brakes all around, even both rear axle seals and wheel cylinders were leaking. Now my F-250 4x4 drags it's *** when I try to stop. Guess it's been sitting too much. Feels like the front callipers aren't working. Almost hit someone. Time to get out the tools again...sigh..

 

i used to have a brake rotor worn in half like that hanging on the wall of my shop with the caption under it "they just started squeaking yesterday!"

 

Sadly, I've seen that more than once.

 

Believe it or not, my sister took her 62 Acadian (Chevy 11) in for a brake job in the early eighties, and when she got it back the steering wheel would pull right out of her hand when trying to stop. I jacked it up and saw the guy put brand new shoes over the drums without maching them. The one side was like the rocky mountains, and cut right into the lining. Never seen that before. I had to get it turned so she could drive it again. Very sad.

 

Good steady work. Wish I had a couple of customers like that.

 

What's worse than that? How about this I found on a 40 ton semi. 0723080003.jpg and along the same lines as that rotor, look at this.

 

Thought I would share this one


I pulled over when it got hot I swear !!!
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Yes this is a oil pick up tube !with the plastic baffle liquified and started sucking up the pick up tube and cooled down this way ,and blocked oil and we drove it in the shops knocking like crazy

 

I've seen that on the brakes of a 78 Cutlass back in the day and a 78 Monte Carlo too.
I used to work for an office supply company back in the 80's. They had a small 1982 Honda Civic 2 door. Some where around 1983 or 84 I noticed the car had 96,000 miles and I mentioned to the owner's father that they never seemed to service that car or the 81 Datsun pick up we drove on deliveries. He had me take it to the Honda dealer. They took it in a bay and then called me back to show me the original oil filter with factory security seal still intact. The filter put on the engine when it was new had never been changed. When they pulled that filter and the drain plug nothing came out of the engine. The mechanic ran a wire up in the engine and a very thick tar like substance began to slowly flow. They flushed that engine 3 or 4 times. I couldn't believe how well that little car ran before and after that oil change. I drove it so hard every day. It was still going with over 150K the last time I saw it and on it's third oil change by that time.

 

had a truck come into shop that had had the the front disc brakes done that day,driver said the brakes were noisy,check pads they were installed backwards,metal side toward router.

 

Almost did that two weeks ago. I was in a hurry to finish the front brakes on the 79 SLC and I went to put the pins through and thought it looked funny. Glad I didn't complete the job that way !!

 

The really sad part is, in New Jersey, if the rotors/drums look like that, but the car stops in a certain amount of feet, it will pass inspection.

That's why when you buy a car in NJ, and bring it back to PA for inspection, the mech WILL tear the car apart

 

Had a young girl come in with grinding brakes and the pads were completely worn through and the piston was actually contacting the rotor. Wish I took a pic,we had that rotor kicking around the shop on display for years!

 

^ post of the day for me

 

Not anymore.

There is no safety inspection in NJ anymore.

- Eric

 

^Really?

How do you make the most unsafe drivers in the US more unsafe? Don't have safety inspections anymore

 

Really:

"Effective August 1 , 2010, the New Jersey Motor Vehicle Commission made changes to the New Jersey Vehicle Inspection Program eliminating the mechanical defects (safety) portion of the inspection process for passenger vehicles.
Most passenger vehicles will be required to be inspected biennially (every two years) for emissions only.
Commercial vehicles and buses will be required to be inspected annually (every year) for safety and the appropriate emissions test.
Motorcycles are now exempt from inspection."