How many times can you resurface the rotors? I've had them turned once, but I f***ed up because I didn't know about the "bedding" part. Now I need new brakes and my rotors resurfaced because they are vibrating like like a dildo.

 

There is a minimun spec on the the rotors for the thickness and if you have the tool to measure how thick it is you can determine if they can be cut again.

 

I checked out rotors the other day, they are about $35 a piece... why bother with flip or resurface?

 

because a resurface costs $7 each brininging your total to about $32 for the rotors as opposed to $140 for the rotors. It's a good idea to have them resurfaced. They will not turn the rotors on their machine if they don't meet minimum thickness standards.



You can have it done when you change your brake pads. Just take the rotors to some place that does brakes and have them do it really quickly. Depending on warpage, you can have the rotors resurfaced 2-5 times.

 

Well, consider that in order to warp the rotors in the first place, they must get very hot. The thickness of the rotor is what determines (among other things, like the vents in-between the contact surface, and whether they are drilled, slotted, or both, blah blah blah) it's ability to dissapate heat. The more times you re-surface the rotor, the less metal thickness you will have, thus the rotors will have less of an ability to dissapate the large amount of heat created when braking hard, thus, the faster they will warp the next time soooo..

I would highly suggest just getting new rotors. Saves you the PITA (not really, unless you have captive rotors, which still aren't that hard) of having to pull all of the wheels and calipers to change the rotors to get them resurfaced.

Just spend the 200 or less (I think it is like 240 shipped with pads all around - but don't get the pads, they suck) on ebay for some d/s rotors from rotorworks. I brake very hard with them and have no warping problems. cool.gif

 

You can resurface them many times.

There is minimal thickness, I think it's 22 mm, but I don't remember, it should be written on the rotor.

Also if you have cracks - you have to replace rotor.

 

Ok, so you're suggesting that this guy buy $240 in parts and shipping instead of spending $24 for resurfacing. Even if the time between service halved after turning them, the guy would only be spending $74 when you spend $480. You're telling someone to spend 10 times the ammount of money man. Everyone knows that rotors get turned not thrown away. That's just plain messed up to tell the guy unless you're a rotor vendor.

 

yes but hes recommending he buy UPGRADE rotors stock rotors suck with my cross drilled and slotted i never had a warpage issue stock ones warpped easily and after 2 cuts became useless so i had to keep buyin more....(i never had a brake setup last longer than a year lmao.gif i wonder why....)

when it comes time for a brake job i buy new rotors for both my cars (well i did swap pads a few times cuz the rotors were within thickness on the E but the mustang has always gotten new rotors even if they were within thickness...) hell even ford says dont cut the rotors on almost all there cars but its a ford and they probably use like tin foil for the rotors or somethin...

but hey

everyones driving style is different...if you brake hard and drive it like you stole it look into upgrade rotors

if you drive like a 50 year old korean guy just cut em

no shame in saving money hehe but for me its just 250 bux i put in brakes which allow me to stop faster...i rather spend some money on better parts and get a better feel from the brakes

HAWK PADS FOR TEH WIN!!!!

oh and one more thing and ive said this before

BRAKES AND TIRES ARE THE MOST IMPORTANT PART OF MODDING

both do sooooo much for you...