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Originally Posted by 300SDog
warped rotors?
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Thanks, it was the rotors. I brought the car to a local mechanic and told him to check the front end and also the rotors. He said he has seen the over-torquing causing problems. He said he was unable to properly measure the rotors so he had them turned and put in new pads. Problem disappeared, but it wasn't until yesterday when I traveled to the two steep hills where the problem previously was extremely noticeable that I could verify that the problem was really gone. Problem is gone.
Here's a link explaining that the rotor doesn't actually warp but gets brake pad material deposited on it.
http://www.stoptech.com/tech_info/wp_warped_brakedisk.shtml#
And here's a discussion on this Mercedes site where I got the link.
http://209.85.215.104/search?sourceid=navclient-ff&ie=UTF-8&q=cache%3Ahttp%3A%2F%2Fwww.peachparts.com%2Fshopforum%2Fshowthread.php%3Fp%3D1199652