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Old 04-29-2019, 09:11 AM   #11
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Everything posted above....

....is right on the money.

Lots of choices, all of them are fine.

When I needed new rotors last year, I bought a set of cryogenically frozen OEM rotors from a company called "Frozen Rotors."

There has been a lot of progress on cryogenically treated rotors in the last decade.

The idea is that you put the rotors in a freezer and slowly drop the temperature to around -250 degrees F. This "aligns the molecules" and supposedly makes for harder wearing metal.

The military does this with artillery gun barrels.

NASCAR does this on their rotors and many racers do this.

I figured I'd give it a shot.

I only have about 6,000 miles on them so far, and the only thing I can really report is that they have a mirror like finish where the pads have made contact. They work great.

I had 50,000 miles on the original rotors, so we'll see. I should have 50,000 miles on these in four years at my current driving rate.

Here's a link:

http://www.frozenrotors.com

And a brief synopsis from the Tire Rack:

https://m.tirerack.com/tires/tiretech/techpage.jsp?techid=83

And another link:

https://www.thefabricator.com/article/shopmanagement/cryogenic-processingadispelling-the-myths-mysteries

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