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This weekend My friend and I took a look ate the brakes on his 1990 Chrysler LeBaron Click the link below and see if you notice anything wrong. Boy, is he lucky that he never had to have a panic stop.  Bad Brakes Link
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is right!
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that is pretty bad ,but ive seen it where people have grinded all the way through to the vents  (talk about a brake pulsation ,try stopping on the vents...lol)
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I work at a shop and have replaced rotors that where worn down to the vents  I cant beleive some of the [censored] I see, I cant stand the way people abuse there cars, I feel bad for some of the cars I work on 
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The scarey part is that I was riding with him on friday in that car. Everytime we stopped I was holding my ears cause of the metal on metal sound. When we took off the wheel I was speechless. As far as the stupid things people do to cars here is a good example. 1 month of grinding brakes and never did a thing about it. Oh well its fixed now. 
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I installed my new brakes on the rear on sunday. The pads on one side literally crumbled while taking off the caliper. Good stuff huh? Yeah I was kinda ashamed. The fault goes to ford for putting the stupid torx bolts on and delaying my brake install for a good month or two. 
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yeh I just installed brakes all the way around.. the back drivers side was NOTHING.. it was kind of scary to think about....
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Originally posted by Kevdogg410:
yeh I just installed brakes all the way around.. the back drivers side was NOTHING.. it was kind of scary to think about....
Sounds familiar, and yes, I heard the scraping from the left rear, which suddenly made my "someday" brake upgrade into an emergency rear brake job.
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