I think I might have been had, but if I did, it's a learning experience.

When I took my car into the shop ages ago for a brake job, the rotors didn't have enough surface on them to be machined. So I had to get new ones of course, and the price of each rotor they charged was about 100.00 a piece. I think that's kind of high, but I'm just still a beginning DIY'er. What's your view?

Second, I was told that on my car, they have to machine the rotors on the car. In other words, can't put it on the wheel to turn them. I found that rather odd and frankly I think it's bullshit. So were they right that rotors on my car have to machined on the vehicle or not?

 

were they 100 installed? doesnt seem like much of a bad price. and yeah, at my shop, we only machine rotors for accords on the car, its the way the rotor is, it wont sit on the lathe, we dont have or they dont make a die big enough, and if they did, it'd be useless for us, we dont do many.

 

The rotors on the fifth generation Accords are unique in their mounting in that they are pressed onto the front hub bearing, unlike others which slide over the wheel studs from the outside.
It is prefered to remachine rotors on the car when their is sufficient material left because it eliminates the labor cost of disassembling everything and raising the possibility of not putting it back together correctly.
You will better understand my comment about labor cost when you get to the point of replacing those puppies (ouch)

 

best way to machine rotors is while they are still on car just remove caliper and bracket. lathe gets bolted up to whre caliper bracket mounted on ..they turn up great a lot better then machining them off the car been doing it for years

 

you can pretty much do this on any frt wheel drive cars

 

Ok, so you say that the rotors can't fit on the wheel because they don't have a nut big enough to hold it on. Does an auto parts store have one that can do the job? Like O'Reilly?

 

probably not, but if there is, its probably expensive. the dies usually come from the manufacturer of the lathe, but I've known a few machinists that have made custom ones, which is expensiveish.

 

Well, this is a load of crap. I'm assuming on other model honda's you can put them on the lathe and have at it?

 

your assumption is correct sir.

 

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What a load of complete crap that is....total, *** chili.....