Ever Seen This before?

[Neverdone]

That came off my truck. Only a couple years old (the rotor that is). Was coming down the road hit the brakes to make a right hand turn and BOOM!!! Truck pulled to the left hard, I thought it was something with the steering. Backed up and pulled off on to a side street and got out to investigate. When I saw that it blew my mind. Babied it back home a couple miles and fixed it. Needless to say I replaced both front rotors.........

 

[donsrods]

This is becoming a problem as auto parts stores are beginning to carry parts made offshore. I have given up on Duralast parts from Autozone (should be called DON'T LAST) They are pure crap and I have had so many out of the box failures. Even the employees at the local NAPA have secretly mentioned their displeasure that their company is starting to sell Chinese stuff more and more.

None of us like Government intervention, but someone is going to have to start making sure these parts are held to some standard. Glad you are ok, that could have been bad.

Don

 

[Old Iron]

I'm on board with the displeasure of having mo choice but, to buy and run offshore parts on something as important as our vehicles.
We all try to keep them up to snuff so our families are safe and then this type of crap happens
Glad you got home safe !!!!!!!!!!

 

[GJunktionMike]

I have seen rotors ground down to the cooling fins (makes for hard braking) But I have never seen that before.

 

[Dirtyrat]

I've never seen a hat separate from the disc like that either... glad you are ok!

 

[Sam_Fear]

Take a close up picture of where it broke. What was the cause?

 

[Dr Crankenstein]

That's ridiculous.

A tire store dictates what is safe, yet nobody regulates critical parts like this? Whatever happened to "Meets or exceeds OEM specifications"? Remember when a replacement part was better than the original?

Something really really wrong is going on here. We all like to pay less, but not at the risk of life and limb. Like Don said, there needs to be a standard.

 

[striptnut]

HOWDEE-DO-DAT ![S
You guys are right ! Those off-shore guys are short cuttin' everything they make overthere! Glad to here your OK!

 

[Neverdone]

Take a close up picture of where it broke. What was the cause?

If I had to gets the metal was just that thin.......... If you put the two pieces back how they are supposed to be, There is a 3/16" gap all the way around where they should have met. The rest of the rotor was in great shape. Who knows what was the cause. There were no wear marks from anything rubbing it. What ever the case, it should have never happened!!

I am just glad I wasn't in town, or pulling a trailer, or in any situation that would have required hard braking.......

Good news is, I got to keep it to put on the Wall-O-Shame. Maybe weld it to something for a little garage art? I don't know.

 

[ruggs]

Neverdone,
Have you checked the travel of your caliper? Sticky slider bolts could cause the rotor to deflect when the brakes are applied. Just a thought....ruggs

 

[Neverdone]

actually as a matter of fact......

About six months ago I blew a front brake line. In the process of replacing said line I proceeded to snap the bleeder from both front calipers. Got two new calipers on the front and replaced the slides at the same time. Couldn't see the point in replacing the caliper and not the slides so put in new slides and greased them up on the way in........

But I actually was wondering the same thing when I saw what happened. Checked them out when I replaced the rotor and they are perfectly fine. Thanks for the suggestion though.

 

[offroadrolls]

"None of us like Government intervention, but someone is going to have to start making sure these parts are held to some standard."

Don

How about our government ease up on American manufacturing companies. Between one of the highest corporate tax rates in the world and the EPA it's no wonder they all went to China.

"MADE IN AMERICA MATTERS"

 

[CR55]

They went to china for the cheap labor...and not as many stringent laws on safety checks. So we all get the repercussions from the substandard parts!

 

[Ol Blue]

They went to china for the cheap labor...and not as many stringent laws on safety checks. So we all get the repercussions from the substandard parts!

Direct labor costs are a very tiny % of the costs of manufacturing in the USA.

Blue

 

[CR55]

Direct labor costs are a very tiny % of the costs of manufacturing in the USA.

Blue

According to the Department of Labor....it accounts for 35% of the total cost....not a tiny amount in my opinion.