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Originally Posted by gjones8131
So it looks like when a local indy did my front rotors and brakes ~4yrs ago, he broke the rotor retaining screw on my front right rotor. Instead of fixing it, he left it figuring I would never notice.
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Would you have paid extra at the time for him to fix the screw?
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Originally Posted by gjones8131
My gut says YES cause its part of the brakes....but clearly I've been driving for 4 yrs with no catastrophic problems. Wondering if this can wait till the spring to drill it out and tap a new one in or if I should deal w/ it now.
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Stud mount wheels generally don't have retaining screws and work just fine.
There are a couple of other reasons why bolt attached wheels have a retaining screw.
1 It keeps index of the rotor holes and hub holes when the wheel is off.
2 A flake of rust "could" fall between the hub and rotor causing a braking vibration but , again , stud mount wheels survive just fine. ( Brake vibration is caused by a thickness variation more than it is caused by a wobbly rotor. )
Wheels corrode to the hub index and not to the face of the hub so the rotor coming off with the wheel won't be an issue. The caliper will prevent losing the rotor during a wheel change.