No.....Always get new iron rotor..your car will work properly
Your pulsing feeling is from wrapped rotor. You can turn them at a cost of 10 to 20 dollars. The problem is your either riding the brakes so much they are overheating and will happen again. Or you have a problem with the calipers sticking. Since you only have 60k miles. I am guessing your ******* the brakes and overheating them. Question is do you hold the brake pedal going down hills and stopping hard at stop signs. Your brakes get hot spots and turning them will make them thinner and till you change the way you brake. It will happen even faster being thinner. Replace with new and try to be easy on the brakes. Should be able to get 75k miles from a set of good pads and rotors should last even longer if you change pads before cutting into the rotor.
I agree with what you were told about turning the rotors. With the lower cost of replacement rotors and the metal in the original rotors, does make them hard to turn and stay true.
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I have a 2006 Sequoia which should have the similar if not the exact same brake system. Changing the pad is very easy and straight forward. No special wrenth was involved. Easier than sedans since no worry to damage the brake fluid pipe.
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The piston goes in but the other side of the bracket has sliding pins that are probably frozen in place. Get rebuilt, loaded calipers with the brackets attached and new pads already in place for about $110 each side and the repair is easier. Just did it.
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take off tires. two 14mm bolts behind the caliper. loosen the bottom 1. tilt the caliper up. slide caliper inward of the car, let caliper hang. two 17mm bolts behind the bracket take it off. and rotors should slide out. if rotor seized spray WD40 and hammer the rotor. careful don't hammer the stud it will screw up the thread.
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No they don't. If the feel smooth, then just change pads, if they are slightly scortched and feel slightly ruff, just have them turned.
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probably a dumb question, but if there is a backing plate, did you make sure it isnt bent and hitting the rotor? you never want to sand new rotors, although i dont think it would cause this concern. i would suggest lightly scuffing up the brake pads. this will eliminate any noise caused by the contact of the rotors and pads. if it goes away then you know its a problem with the pads/rotors.
scoring of only the inside rotors would make me think that possibly the caliper slides are frozen up. make sure they move quite freely on the slides. it is not uncommon for brake pads to score rotors though.
but brake noises at low speeds that dont' change when applying light brake pressure are usually some sort of metal or something contacting the rotor.
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