Stop telling us that all we have to do solve a problem is to understand it first.
At some point in your life, you'll find that understanding the difference between "warp" (as in potato chip) and uneven pad deposits causes an intelligent and logical thinker to come up with the same short-term solution, but different long-term solutions.
a. If the rotors truly warped (as in potato chip), the short term solution is to replace or turn them.
a. If the rotors simply had uneven pad deposition, the short-term solution is to replace or turn them.
b. If the rotors truly warped (as in potato chip), the long term solution is to prevent the heat buildup.
b. If the rotors simply had uneven pad deposition, the long-term solution is to prevent uneven pad deposits.
What throws Dunning-Kruger poster children off is that the short-term solution is the same in both cases, while the long-term solution is very different, depending on the true cause of the vibration.
Somebody has a very different view of brakes than I do...
I'm not going to try to convince you or anyone else that the term "warp" implies warp (as in a potato chip) which almost never happens in non-racing vehicles, nor that what people call warp is merely a "vibration", which can have many causes, only one of which is true warp (as in potato chip).
What happens is that intelligent and logical thinkers come up with the same short-term solution, but different long-term solutions, depending on the true cause of the vibration.
If we limit the discussion of the vibration cause to either true rotor "warp" (as in potato chip) or uneven pad deposition, the difference is absolutely meaningless in the short term; but extremely meaningful in the long term.
The fact that the short-term solution is the same for both causes is what throws the unthinking person off; they succumb to the Dunning Kruger effect, thinking they're a diagnostic genius because they solved their short-term vibration problem by replacing or turning the rotors.
But they haven't solved the long-term problem!
The reason is that, in the short term, the solution is the same whether the rotors did truly "warp" (as in potato chip) or whether the pulsation was due to some other rotor-related vibration problem (most notably uneven pad deposition).
However, in the long term, the solution is EXTREMELY DIFFERENT if the vibration was actually due to the rotors "warping" (as in a potato chip) or if the rotor-related vibration was actually due to uneven pad deposits.
What you find is that people who don't understand the difference often come back and complain that the problem "returned". Heh heh.. in the case of uneven pad deposition, their braking habits are CAUSING the problem, so, it's just natural that the pulsation would eventually return.
By focusing on repeated short-term solutions (e.g., blame the pads, blame the rotors, etc.) - they're not realizing that their long-term solutions (change the pad brand, change the rotor brand, add the Tundra brakes, etc.) are wrong.
To summarize, whether the pulsation is due to true "warp" (as in potato chip) or uneven pad deposition, the short term solution - in both cases - is to turn or replace the rotors. This "success" fools many people into believing they understand the problem because their short-term solution worked wonderfully.
However, the long-term solution is different depending on whether the rotors truly "warped" (as in potato chip, in which case the Tundra solution just might may some sense) or whether there was simply uneven pad deposition (in which case, the long term solution is to change braking habits).
Since this discussion is far too logical for most people to handle, I won't try to dissuade anyone from fantasizing that their rotors warped (as in potato chip) again! But you must permit me to feel sorry for the kid who writes that his brakes "warped again" even though he changed his pads and rotors many times.
(I am merely dismayed and sorry for these illogical people when I see them say "my brakes warped again", with emphasis on the word "again"; and then they invariably "blame" the equipment, and,worse, they advocate and instill the wrong long-term solutions simply because they were fooled by the fact that the short-term solution worked no matter whether their logic was correct or not.)
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