Our '99 Civic recently started having a brake pulsation and grinding noise as of late. So I pulled the wheels off the car today to inspect the brakes. Since the brakes only had about 40K km's on them, I was disappointed that the rotors seemed to be warped. My other half drives this car for the most part, and it sees lots of highway, and she is easy on brakes.
The rotors were in terrible shape, severely corroded, significant run-out. The rotors on the car are the ATE PremiumOne slotted rotors (not my choice, my FIL had them installed for her a couple of years ago). I know up here in Canada, these rotors are in the CTC flyer all the time and they are not cheap. I would not recommend this rotors to anyone.
On top of that, even though the brake pads had about 60% life left, one of the pads seperated from the backing plate. Not sure what pads they were, but they looked like a decent quality product (they definitely were not an economy pad). Obviously, poor quality control on those pads. I've never had that happend to ANY of my brakes over the years.
Installed a fresh set of Raybestos ceramics and (plain) rotors today. These brakes are very nice so far, hopefully they last longer than this last set.
The rotors were in terrible shape, severely corroded, significant run-out. The rotors on the car are the ATE PremiumOne slotted rotors (not my choice, my FIL had them installed for her a couple of years ago). I know up here in Canada, these rotors are in the CTC flyer all the time and they are not cheap. I would not recommend this rotors to anyone.
On top of that, even though the brake pads had about 60% life left, one of the pads seperated from the backing plate. Not sure what pads they were, but they looked like a decent quality product (they definitely were not an economy pad). Obviously, poor quality control on those pads. I've never had that happend to ANY of my brakes over the years.
Installed a fresh set of Raybestos ceramics and (plain) rotors today. These brakes are very nice so far, hopefully they last longer than this last set.