You can still get good rotors but you have to pay for 'em. I had terrrible problem with rotors warping on the Vic, having turned them twice in just under 80k. THey'd be fine for a few months, but invariably started p-p-p-p-pulsing and eventually returned to insanely annoying in under 5k of driving.
I got well and truly tired of dealing with it and popped for some Raybestos Uber Super Premium Ultra Best-est rotors (can't remember the exact line, but it was their higher-end Made In North America line). They were almost $100 each vs the $35 generic replacements, but worth every penny. Problem gone. Completely. Almost 30k on them without a single issue and very little in the way of wear. If it weren't for a geriatric who stubbornly refused to stop operating a motor vehicle despite significant physical and visual impairment plus being on mutiple "do not drive or operate machinery" scrips I'd still be driving the Vic today and am confident the rotors would be just fine.
The truck is doing the same damn thing. Only with late model 2wd F-150 trucks the front hub and rotor are a single assembly and they are a mere $275. Each. Luckily a company called Centric has a conversion kit that allows use of the removeable rotors from the 4wd F-150. (I'd like to meet the dumb SOB who called that shot - "Oh, let's put an expensive piece of crap single piece rotor assembly on the 2wd and a relatively easy-to-replace two piece design on the 4wd). Best of all the kit, all new hub and a premium rotor, are about 2/3 the price of the factory replacement assembly. In addition they are, by all accounts, far superior in both performance and longevity. Best of all, for future servicing you can get a premium replacement rotor for $60-80 vs a standard (read: gonna warp next week) replacement hub/rotor assembly for $275.
Brad
