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My passenger side front brake pad is wearing twice is fast as the other brake pads. Is this normal or is there something wrong with the brake on that side? The brake pads are the original pads that came with car when I bought it new. The car now has 28,000 miles on it.

2000 SVT

Sticking caliper or bad brake hose is the likely culprit.

Most likely a sticking caliper, not the piston in the caliper, but rather the caliper slide pins. I'll bet that you find the caliper lside pins not well lubricated on that side. This does not usually require replacing the caliper, but just making sure that the caliper is properly lubricated and the pads properly installed. You should change the pads when you do this, and probably machine the rotors as well. It is seldom anything more than this.

OR that one disk is bent, yes i said bent, it happens when your disks get hot and you drive in to a puddle of water, i have had this 2 times already. and one is bent now, im gonna get cross drilled ones this time.