Rotor Replacement under 10K miles

Has anyone heard of issues with the rotors needing to be replaced prior to 10K miles? I just read an article where some owners apparently needed rotor replacements and it wasn't covered under warranty. Obviously it could be BS, but haven't seen anything related to it on this forum. The people reporting it were posting to a FB page.

 

I've seen several articles written bashing the 22 based off Facebook "facts". I saw the one on rotors and imo, if you don't see an owner posting about it on here or another forum, I wouldn't put much thought into it. Yes not everyone that owns a tundra is on a forum, but there's a big enough sample size that if there's an issue, someone will have it.

Hell the latest article was titled "2020 tundra watergate issues" in the article it got it right as 22' and waste gate, but it was full of quotes from Facebook posts from people throwing out nonsense about how they've not had their truck for 2 months, someone was getting a new engine, dealers are refusing to do an early oil change, and they're trying to get a lawsuit going. It was a shit show of an article.

 

I agree with what you're saying and I definitely don't put much stock in it, just wanted to see if anyone here has experienced it. It could also be possible there aren't a lot of people with 10K miles on their Tundras yet. I'm not concerned, but I would also not be surprised if it does pop up considering all of the rotor issues from previous gens I personally experienced.

 

If I recall correctly the 07+ had some issues with rotor warping. Something to do with the wheels being torqued with a gun instead of a torque wrench.

 

No. I've got over 12,500 miles on my truck, about a 1/3 of which is city driving (i.e. lots of braking). No issues with my brakes at all. My 10k service & multi-point inspection was about 4 weeks ago and everything looked good then.

I saw that same article pop into my newsfeed too. I laughed when I saw the "water gate" headline. Agree that the article itself was pretty garbage. Quoting 2nd & 3rd hand sources with seemingly no independent verification. Just goes to show what passes for "journalism" on the internet these days. Sensationalizing everything to get reads & clicks for ad dollars. Sad.

Side note: Before people jump on this, I'm not denying there are issues, but this article was particularly poor quality.

 

My rear rotors and brakes were shot by 7.5k miles on my 6 month old 2017 4Runner. That was not covered under warranty. They only covered the severe rust problems I was having. Toyota was willing to paint the entire truck but I was done with it. There were many warranty issues with that truck which was highly disappointing. On a side note I was reading on TacomaWorld that a few MGM owners were having similar issues with the paint.

 

It could certainly be a rotor "warping" issue, but I would expect that to be replaced under warranty. Usually warping is actually just pad deposits on the rotors. I had rotors "warp" on my F150 around that mileage, although, it eventually stopped on its own and I made it to 90k before I changed them.

I will say that my parents had a 2002 Honda CRV that used to eat brakes routinely. My dad brought it into the dealer at some ridiculously low mileage because the brakes were gone and they refused warranty and made him pay for it because it was allegedly normal wear. He was PISSED. The calipers on that thing would seize up all the time and eat through the pads.

 

Rotors are considered a wear item. Wear items typically aren’t covered under a warranty except for cases of manufacturing defect. If someone roasted the rear tires off they wouldn’t be able to warranty those either.

 

I think everyone understands that in a scenario where it was caused by the user.

 

Rotors should last longer then 10000 miles
Even when I had my ram they warranted everything due to the fact they were wearing out well before they should have

 

You get anything hot enough - it will warp. Mileage is irrelevant IMO.

 

I think the material they make brakes out of nowadays has poorer heat dissipation or heat resistance qualities than they used to.

My 04 Dakota bounced like a trampoline on braking in its first 12K miles and got a goodwill rotor resurfacing.

09 Tundra probably started to get the wobbles at around 30K.

On both trucks I went aftermarket and the rotors didn't need to be touched again for 10s of thousands of miles.

 

99% of the time rotors don't warp though. They are usually pad deposits on the rotor that cause the pulsing.

I bet anyone who had pulsing could take their truck out and do a few repetative hard stops and clean the rotors off. I am pretty sure that is what I did on my F150 when they "warped"

 

Sure - the pad deposits are a result of……………coming to a stop with hot ass rotors from people killing the brakes.

IME, there are two kinds of drivers - those that have these issues repeatedly and those that never have them.

 

18,000 and brakes are pulsing pretty bad after a few highway speed stops, when brakes get hot. I know how to drive, and have not abused the brakes at all. Tried the high speed cleaning technique we used to use on our old trucks after towing... Just made it worse and more violent when braking.

IMO these factory rotors are thin and lightweight to help with fuel milage, and the pads are very hard in an attempt to last 100,000 miles. The combination of thin rotors and hard pads generates a lot of heat.

I am looking for aftermarket rotors and pads, but cannot find anything for these new 6 lug set ups. Anyone know of any aftermarket brake kits?

 

I’m good at 24000 miles so far.