i recently help a couple of my sons friends do brakes on their vehicles. one was a 2018 Volvo S90 T6 with 28k on the clock. its an expensive car but its leased and the parents are going through a divorce so the mom can not afford to take it to the dealer. dealer was close to $2k for brakes all around. i explained the options and they decided on a pad slap. i told them the possible pitfalls of a pad slap. it was all they could afford. So i pulled the pads and miked the calipers and they were good. for 28k there was no lip. greased the sliders other usual things . this was my first vehicle with electronic parking brake. it was a lot easier than i thought it would be.
put it all together and drove it. no shimmy , pulsing of anything. smooth as glass.
second one was a 2005 CRV. College student with no money. As with the previous one, i explained the options and issues . he also chose the pad slap. so i pulled the pads, miked the rotors etc and slapped it back together. the only issue with this one was one of the sliders pin was seized. cleaned and lubed . As with the other one when we drove it on the road there were no issues.
on my own vehicles i tend to replace or machine the rotors when doing a brake job. was told often that pad slapping was a bad thing . but this experience seems to contradict this thought. So why is pad slapping considered bad in the pro mech industry?
oh , my paranoid and careful self had them sign waivers on the brake jobs. i am only liable for a much as they paid me for the work.
put it all together and drove it. no shimmy , pulsing of anything. smooth as glass.
second one was a 2005 CRV. College student with no money. As with the previous one, i explained the options and issues . he also chose the pad slap. so i pulled the pads, miked the rotors etc and slapped it back together. the only issue with this one was one of the sliders pin was seized. cleaned and lubed . As with the other one when we drove it on the road there were no issues.
on my own vehicles i tend to replace or machine the rotors when doing a brake job. was told often that pad slapping was a bad thing . but this experience seems to contradict this thought. So why is pad slapping considered bad in the pro mech industry?
oh , my paranoid and careful self had them sign waivers on the brake jobs. i am only liable for a much as they paid me for the work.