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Old 10-08-2013, 01:05 PM   #1
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Not debating min. thickness, but here's nothing wrong with new pads on an unresurfaced rotor, as long as it's worn evenly, and isn't grooved. I've done it for 20 years on multiple vehicles, including a race car. After normal bedding in, they're as good as new. I've never found someone who would skim cut a rotor, they always take too much material.

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Old 10-08-2013, 02:07 PM   #2
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Not debating min. thickness, but here's nothing wrong with new pads on an unresurfaced rotor, as long as it's worn evenly, and isn't grooved. I've done it for 20 years on multiple vehicles, including a race car. After normal bedding in, they're as good as new. I've never found someone who would skim cut a rotor, they always take too much material.
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Fear of reusing a serviceable rotor without resurfacing is pretty unfounded. It happens 50 times a day at racetracks around the world without incident. It won't have that "perfectly smooth, all new components feel" but it stops the car just fine.
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