@#%* Dealership...gotta vent

[Doug_Scott]

I never asked to be compensated for any repairs....just upset how the front end can go from "no problem", to "You should of felt it, it is so bad' in 1000 miles, when I've been asking for them to check it for the past 9,000 miles at each Oil Change. The Drums were cut in house....they claim that the Lathe was screwed up.....how they didn't feel that pulsation during a road test I'll never know.....when slowing, the last 15MPH, you'd be rocking forward from the pulsation.....not sure how much meat they had to take off to fix them, but the brakes are fine now.......I also ran the truck up to 90 mph....not a shimmy, or a shake.....drives like new

 

 

I did not mean that you tried for full compensation, it was something someone else was inferring. It is something that has been a sore spot for me from when I was working on cars.

 

Having machined many drums in my career, you may want to have the drums measured now. There is a machine to spec, and a discard spec. The difference between the two numbers is usually about the normal wear that will occur in the life of the brakes. From what I can remember, it was something like .030 inches difference between machine to and discard at numbers for a drum around 10 inches in diameter.

 

The drum when new is one size, after the brakes have worn out, and the drums machined (assuming brakes were not down to metal) the drum should be measured to ensure it is still in a usable state. You should be able to get two or three break jobs done with machining on the original drums, again, assuming no metal on metal, and no severely distorted or hot spot drums. Having a machine job that put the drums out of round by the machine will take a lot of material to correct. Either take the truck to someone and have them measured, or take them off yourself and get them measured. If they are out of spec, they will go out of round easier due to less metal to disipate the heat. They may be fine, but, if they are not, you can get that corrected now for less than it will cost later.