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Old 05-19-2013, 04:47 AM   #44 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by wdb View Post
Brakes get heat cycled. Mine have 91K miles of heat cycling. And it is not at all unusual for a rotor to fail catastrophically. So go ahead and call me paranoid. I'll call you an ambulance when your perfectly good brakes fail under an extreme circumstance.
I wonder if that's going to happen before or after my Tempo does aero endos off the road because Hermie a.k.a. aeromodder says it has so much lift?

Actually I've never seen nor heard of catastrophic rotor failure, although I have seen warpage from a stuck caliper (motorcycle) and gouges from braking with brake pads that no longer had linings.
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