"slight" grinding

[Shimmy]

Yes this is taken from reddit.

Girl came to get her oil changed and to check this "slight" grinding coming from her brakes.. she didn't fix it and had to sign a wavier releasing stupidity.

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[Rybo89]

Wtf lol

That can't be for real, I reckon someone has done that on purpose to take a photo.

 

[rexehuk]

Pads look fine to me, look at all that shiny metal... wait there's some missing from in between ^^

 

[Hxc]

Can't understand how this could've happened.

 

[Yaayuh!]

My US friend just sent me that. I was shocked and asked him what the US is like on what we call an MOT he replied:

"We have to have vehicles checked when registered but that's normally every 2 years and a lot of times you can go to crooked people and get by a deep check of your car."

In addition to that, because of so many states there so many different road/vehicle laws.

 

[jaybee]

Am I interpreting that pic correctly? How would that happen where one side wears at a rate thousands of times harder than the other?

 

[rexehuk]

Who's to say the other wasn't the same? Could just be an idiot who thinks you can just drive a car with 0 maintenance.

 

[Liampope]

Who's to say the other wasn't the same? Could just be an idiot who thinks you can just drive a car with 0 maintenance.

He presumably means the other side of the same disc which clearly isn't the same or there'd be no disc left! I also can't quite see how you can have such drastic one-sided wear with a single piston caliper. If the sliders are totally seized up you'd wear the inside.

But there are plenty of pics of discs like that on google images and I'm sure plenty of people are more than capable of being so mechanically unaware that that level of damage could occur.

 

[Westyfield2]

Not sure I buy that picture...

 

[miniyazz]

Girl came to get her oil changed and to check this "slight" grinding coming from her brakes.. she didn't fix it and had to sign a wavier releasing stupidity.

Does not compute...

Proactive maintenance by changing oil, but ignores glaring lack of brakes?

 

[Clown]

Don't even know what I'm looking at.

 

[rexehuk]

Don't even know what I'm looking at.

It's a chevron lock off the stargate.

 

[andy_mk3]

It looks like it's been machined down, the pad doesn't even touch the disc that far in the centre.

 

[Yaayuh!]

Don't even know what I'm looking at.

This is what it should look like

 

[Amoeba]

Is everyone missing the fact there is wear well below the bottom of the pad?! And the disc hub is shiny new metal? No way is that pic real, it's been machined for the photograph.

Edit -- Ok Andy Mk3 didn't miss it

 

[Jonny69]

Is everyone missing the fact there is wear well below the bottom of the pad?! And the disc hub is shiny new metal? No way is that pic real, it's been machined for the photograph.

Edit -- Ok Andy Mk3 didn't miss it

This. And there would be mashed up partially-melted mangled metal everywhere. Has no-one here accidentally run a pad down to the metal and seen what a mess it makes of the pad and disc? No way it would ever do that, especially right down to the hub. And that disc doesn't even fit on those stubs - I've never seen one sit around the studs all slack like that. Stinks of BS to me.

 

[Janesy B]

I refuse to believe that this isn't staged or set up.

 

[Brookert]

100% not real. I can't believe it would wear down in such a uniform way, even below the pad area?!

 

[Dogbreath]

Is everyone missing the fact there is wear well below the bottom of the pad?!

From what you can see in the pic it looks like the wear is pretty well perfectly aligned with the bottom of the metal pad backing.

 

[jaybee]

Who's to say the other wasn't the same? Could just be an idiot who thinks you can just drive a car with 0 maintenance.

Well you can see it's not the same in the pic. I think you thought I meant the other side of the car, i.e. offside brake. I am talking about the remaining "side" of the disc rotor visible above.