The story goes I checked my pads when I got the car which was about a year and a half ago. They had plenty of meat at that time. It has sat a good amount and I'm guessing a slide froze up on it. Also, my sister has had the car for the past two weeks because I have been out of the country, and she had both of her cars go down within a week. She called me the day before returning it and said the front brakes had just started to grind. Oh well.
I ended up going with Raybestos brand coated rotors. I'll give them a shot. They were a whopping $16.90 each on rockauto. The uncoated ones were around $10 (this low price almost makes me cringe, seems too low).
Here is a link to the Raybestos site:
https://www.brakepartsinc.com/raybes...ducts/rpt.html
It doesn't say they're zinc coated, but they use some sort of plating technology to coat the entire rotor. This means the vanes, and hub all have at least a bit more rust protection. Other brands claim this coating helps the rotor not seize to the hub. I have run into this twice on Fords where I had to beat the rotor off the hub which broke it into pieces.