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Re: Theory about rapid rotor wear, appreciate feedback
Posted by claude [Email] (more from claude) on Mon, 7 Jul 2003 11:23:46
In Reply to: Re: Theory about rapid rotor wear, appreciate feedback, TG, Sat, 5 Jul 2003 04:15:14
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I see you have 1.26 million miles on Saabs. Quite an accomplishment! I have at over a million miles logged (sales rep) but on a variety of cars, incl. several Saabs and believe me, no car has ever had rusty rotors as quickly as my Viggen. I still have my old Volvo 850 (265,000mi) parked right next to the Vig, often for much longer periods of time, and those rotors routinely lasted 100k miles and did not wear out due to rust. The Vigen rotors are rust covered after 2 days in my drievway, the Volvo takes many days/weeks before they look as bad.
My rear Viggen rotors are so badly pitted that I am replacing them not because they are too thin, but because they are so pitted, look like hell, and have worn the pads too thin. BTW, I am replacing with stock 9-3 non slotted rotors because it makes no sense to me to spend that kind of money on crappy slotted rotors for the rear which does only a fraction of the braking.
There are varying grades of cast iron. I am not impressed by the grade Saab chose considering Sweden is famed for high grade steels and should know a thing or two about metallurgy. Just my 2 cents!
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