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I'm all for resurfacing Posted by SWEDECAR [Email] (#112) [Profile/Gallery] (more from SWEDECAR) on Mon, 20 Sep 2010 14:16:47 In Reply to: I am against resurfacing...., Mark from Toronto, Mon, 20 Sep 2010 13:54:30 Members do not see ads below this line. - Help Keep This Site Online - Signup |
I would not want to install new straight pads on an old curved surface which all of them pretty much are after using the older genuine pads.
After all, you are only removing the excess material on outer and inner part of rotor and very little in the center where the lowest spot usually is.
Especially if installing the harder Akebono pads that would take forever before they have conformed to the old curved surface.
If you are not resurfacing or replacing the rotor, you initially will have 5-10% braking surface where the pad contacts the inner and outer part of rotor, that will slowly move to 15-20%, 30-40% and so on after many, many 100s and 1000s miles of driving before you have a full 100% contact between pad and rotors.
This will result in unnecessary hot spotting since you will have to push harder on the brake pedal for those initial 5-10% of contact surface to stop the car.
That's my take on it.
Anders
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