CHECKING THE STOPPERS_

摘要

A friend of mine was driving his high mileage Toyota Camry a few years back and experienced normal stops right up to the point where one brake pad finally wore thin enough that it left its perch in the caliper and shot out of there without warning. His pedal went to the floor and he had to swerve off of the yield lane over onto the grass to avoid driving under the side of a passing semi-truck. It happened because the Camry's rotors had been repeatedly machined, but not measured too many times (I did not do this work, by the way). The moral of that story is to always measure the thickness of the rotors and the diameter of the drums when doing the brakes, even if they look good.