[drcoastline]

Thanks Fred,

I am just going to shave a bit off. I just wanted reassurance I wouldn't damage the rotors if there were any imperfections in the pad face.

So this whole thing started because the front driver side had a pulsing feel during braking. It gradually has gotten worse. I assume it is a warped rotor. Which it may be, I don't know. A little over a year ago I had an accident on this side and the upper control arm snapped from the collision. It's possible this was damaged at that time but not picked up? I don't know that either. Last week The pulsing got real bad under braking and began to grind. So I inspected the problem and found that the inside pad was coming apart and had a stone embedded. In addition the inside surface of the rotor was severely scored. The other three brakes were fine but I decided to replace rotors and pads on all four corners.


OEM front rotor thickness specs are 30mm max thickness. The set I received is 30.25mm. So slightly over. Everything else seems ok. As I posted above I purchased a cheap set of front pads from AutoZone to use until the kit came in. I only installed one set of pads on the front left. Yesterday I compared the unused pads from that set to the pads in the kit.

Unused pads measure 12.06, 12.07 MM

Kit pads were 12.09, 12.26, 12.28, 12.28 MM.

Rears were a tight fit but went on. For now I put the unused AutoZone pads on the front right and the old front right on the left.