[Boxstard]

Originally Posted by unpolire

I agree with you 100% and have performed all of my brake jobs on all of my cars for the past 40 years. I trust the ex-factory Porsche mechanic with brakes and regret not having him install OEM pads and rotors when the car was in his shop for full services after sitting dormant for years.

The restorer shop does complex jobs like converting classic Barracudas to Hellcat powertrains with modern ABS and big brake kits, as well as full restoration on classic Mercedes-Benz, Porsches, and VWs. They looked competent. All of my metric tools were hundreds of miles away locked in a container.

The job was done worse than I thought because when cornering, noise from something contacting metal came from the left rear and a deep groove the width and location of one of the caliper pins is in the newly installed rotor after a 35-mile drive. My photo jpegs won't load here and manual attempts did not work. I'll remove the caliper and rotor and determine what has gone horribly wrong. There were no other issues with the car when delivered to the restorer and new tires and an alignment had just been done.

Good luck and I trust that you can correct things on your own and enjoy the car in no time.

I just hate to my gut that the shop is getting away with such horrible job, and this reminds me of how I got into wrenching my cars for over 30 years.

My first car was a 72 Beetle back in 1989, and I had a VW dealership do valve gap adjustment. On my way back home, a rear tire came off of the car in the middle of intersection and I somehow managed to avoid accident. They forgot to torque lug bolts properly and I got one lug bolt lost out of them after argument but no sincere apology for potentially killing me, I was just their inconvenience. It was then that I decided to rather spend money on tools and manuals to handle repairs all myself, and basically I’m maintaining and repairing all of my cars ever since, unless the car is under factory warranty. I just started doing wheel alignment home too, while I still have to let a shop mount tires and balance them, but even then I don’t let a shop touch my 986, only bringing them loose wheels as I have two sets of wheels for summer and winter tires.