Hello,

By looking at these pictures, can anyone tell whether brake rotors were machined and brake pads replaced around 2-3 months ago?

I think I was cheated and no job was done.

 

It seems to me that you were cheated, I don't see any caliper pins with lube on them, plus it's hard to tell if the rotors were turned. My guess is they were not.

 

Pads seem new.
Hard to tell if rotors have been machined. But the price of rotors have came down quite a bit. I wouldn't machine rotors....just replace.

 

To tell if you were cheated. This is what you needed to do.
1) Take pictures before the car was taken in for work. And maybe clean a small area on the metal backing plates for the pads and mark them with a small dot of white paint.
2) The same day right after you pick up the car from the place that serviced it, remove the tires and examine it for new parts and turned rotors.

Sorry but after 2 to 3 months there is no proving anything, since we or you didn't know what the old parts looked like. So how many miles on it since it was in for work?

 

I would say I added around 3500 miles after the work was done. But I always can measure the thickness of the rotors and if it is the same as on new rotors, then evidently they had not been re-surfaced, right? The paperwork says that the rotors were 27.2 mm thick with the allowed minimum of 27mm after 2 years of driving. And it's not like I'm racing every day. Sometimes, yes, and if I do, I'm slowing down using lower gear mostly, so I can't imagine the rotors go away like this in 2 years. Pads probably new, but rotors.. they don't seem to have been re-surfaced.

 

Pad looks changed. Run your fingers from the brake surface all the way to the outside edge. Is there a lip/bump at the end? If there is, then the disc hasn't been resurfaced. Resurfacing would have taken out the lip and you wouldn't have it again until the rotors wore down (definitely not within 3500 miles).

 

That is definitely tough to tell after 3500 miles.

 

Yes, there is a bump at the end. What is the thickness of a brand new rotor in mm for GS F Sport?

 

I'd be happy with those. The pad looks thick, crisp, and even; and the rotor appears to have even contact.



It's been weeks now since your post.

Are you satisfied that you have what you expected?

 

I came for service because I had a pitching squeaks with every wheel rotation. After they done the job (replaced pads and machined rotors as they said) I now have the rubbing sound coming from the same wheel with the same frequency (every full rotation), that's why I think they didn't machine the rotors and most likely just replaced the pads.

 

looks like they did perform a brake job. You do not lube those pins the same way you do on free floating calipers. A little bit of toyota white grease works good but only on the spots that touch metal, so you would not be able to tell after 3.5k miles. the sound could be a bent backing plate, scratching on the rotor when the wheel is fully clocked 1 way. Easy mistake to be made while doing a rotate. thats only a thought tho. but yes it looks like you got a full brake job done.