USA MADE PARTS? HANG ON TO WHAT YOU HAVE!

I was thinking about starting a separate thread on this a few weeks ago.
But I'll post it here.
My high use daily driver had a shimmy at high speed hard braking on the interstates.

Then I was test driving the car after some front end trouble shooting,
I NOTICED that as I continue to hit the brakes hard, it gets worse.

AH HA. The light bulb goes on.
The pads are so shinny they are like mirrors.
(Did I put the "wrong" type of pads on years ago?)
IDK
Now I don't do a lot of stop and start driving in this car.
Mostly interstate so I can be excused for not noticing this sooner.
I have no idea how long these brake pad have been on or where I got them.
But I went to Auto Zone and got some different ones.
The ones I put on from Auto Zone are riveted and have copper looking bits in them.
Problem fixed.
My rotors ARE NOT warped. But check out the heat.



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