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ROUSHGUY and Dallas crew....I need your help....
I need serious help......I can't find a single place in this town
that can refinish slotted rotors. Does anyone know of a place that can do this ???? One of my front left brake pads wore down and scraped the rotor up a few weeks ago. I got all the parts I need to fix it....other than finding someone to refinish the rotor. I would like to have it refinished instead of throwing down hundreds of dollors for a new rotor. I've tried, Autozone, Just Brakes, Lonestar Performance and the damn Ford Dealer I bought the S3 at. The Ford Dealer claims they can do it, if I bring the car in (they won't do it if I bring just the rotor in). Plus theres the whole issue of having to leave the car there for a few days for something I can do in a FEW HOURS. All the other places can't do slotted rotors or know of anyone that can.
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I may be wrong but I dnt think that you can resurface slotted or crossdrilled rotors?
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Fn'Finally.....After the 15th place I've called (seriously...I've called
15 different places), I finally found someone that can do it. They are a brake specialty shop in dallas (American Power Brake and Clutch). So I'm done freakin out.....for now. Roush2960, It can be done, but not on the machines they refinish normal (smooth) rotors on. They have to machine it one side at a time. Lucky for me, I only need one side of the rotor finished.
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I don't know how cost effective it will be to have done vs just buying new ones. Marc
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Glad you found somewhere. Good info to know for later for the rest of us. How much they charging you?
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It's a major cost difference, the shop is estimating the cost
at around 30-40 bucks vs. a few hundred for the new rotor ($360.00 plus shipping  ).Matt, I'm getting it done (or seeing if it can be fixed) tomorrow morning. I'll let ya know the final outcome.
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I had it resurfaced today and the put the brakes back together.
The surface was smoothed down to the point that there are no more slots on the rotors surface that was scratched. I also noticed that the other rotors surface is getting close to having worn out the slots of that rotor too. Has anyone else seen this on there S3's rotors (14" Alcon slotted Rotors) ????? Is this typical of a rotor to wear down over time ? Should I go out and replace the rotors soon so they are all slotted again. If so, It looks like every 25,000-30,000 miles I'll be putting a grand into the breaks alone (pads and new rotors).
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Well sounds like the style pad on there is aggressive enough to wear the rotor that much.
This also sounds to me like possibly to much was taken off the rotor in thickness to be safe.What is the thickness of the rotor now? These are performance brakes so yes you are not going to get the longevity of the oem. Marc
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I've yet to have slotted. I had cross drilled on my 90 &93 GTs and saw them wear about twice as fast as the solid rotors. IMO they're worth the $$ to have the extra stopping power........ especially in Dallas traffic.
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These rotors are one time use only.
My mechanic called Alcon themselves about the rotors to see if they were cheaper and they said they should not be turned and that were one time rotors. You might get away with changing pads a couple times but no turning!!!!!!!!!!
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That just doesn't make any sense to me...."one time use only".
Not that your mech isn't telling us the truth. But I think I'll call Alcon and Roush and figure this out tomorrow.
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I have turned mine more than once on the 380R. Too much track time i guess.Go ahead and turn them and all will be well. jim
P.s. i had the local Ford dealer do them.
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Thanks for the info Roushguy.
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We turned a set of Roush 13's... I wondered... But, when they called Roush.. they said to try that first ( had vibration on a car with less than 10,000 miles) We cut them down... seemed to help... but the rotors lost that zinc coating and didn't look as good.
So... I guess they can be turned. 
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