screw break in, bed the shit out of em and get on with life!

 

Someone mentioned 8 bucks a rotor to get them machined ?!! hmm.. where can I get that done in Dallas...The garage I was talking too... these guys .. wanted 200 just to machine the rotors... and we werent talking pads yet.. maybe my rotors are real messed up. warped to crap or something..
And the thing is , the bozos who installed my current pads... left a clearance (sideways) between the pads and the callipers so whenever I reverse, use the brakes and use the brakes when going forward, the pads make a loud "clunk" so the pads are shifting around to and fro ..sigh.. what a mess.. serves me right.. taking my poor lude to a hack shop for a 100 buck brake job.. tsk tsk...

 

you can get rotors machined at autozone or kragen or checker or any auto parts store, really. and if the rotors are fouled beyond repair, you can get brand new rotors for cheap. ebay is a good place to start, to find brembo blanks. but napa or generic parts makers make rotors that will do just fine.

if you've got a jack and some tools, you can fix the shops bad work, or you can take em back and make em fix it. really working on your own brakes is easy and WAYYYY cheaper than what people charge.

 

i hear that. i replaced 3 calipers, all rotors, and all pads myself. i can't even imagine what a shop would have charged for all that :ugh:

 

For street driving you shouldn't need bigger rotors. I'd just get OEM replacements/Brembo blanks. AEM pads or Axxis Ultimates if you don't mind more dust.
Don't forget the anti-seize on the wheel studs.