No I didn't have a homosexual jump on my hood... I have a 2004 Honda Pilot. It has 50k miles on it. After 20k miles the rotors warped. We live on a mountain and my wife doesn't put it in low so she just rides the brakes down - hence the warping. Fortunately, the service guy at Honda fixed it for free (I complained that I never had that problem with my Lexus/Toyota - using the competition as motivation for repair). So they replaced the pads and rotors. Well it's happened again. I don't want to keep going through this so I'm looking at getting the slotted and drilled rotors with ceramic pads. Some say only go slotted as drilled will wear out the pads quicker. My main point to get rid of the OEM parts and get something on there that will last. Will getting slotted and drilled (or just slotted) rotors help overcome my wife's habit of riding the brakes down the mountain so that I'm not getting new rotors ever 25k miles? Also - I'm looking at getting these on ebay. Is there a difference?
Any rotor can warp. Some slotted and drilled rotors may not be of very high quality, so you never know. I don't have any experience with slotted or drilled, but I've heard that slotted will be audible when braking. Either should improve the ventilation, and keep them a bit cooler, which may help. Ceramic pads leave little visible brake dust, which I like on my truck. Some of the cheaper rotors are simply bought and drilled or slotted as an afterthought, which I don't know if they'd be worth it.
I have heard of companies selling cryogenically treated rotors (and razor blades) that supposedly increase their durability. I have no idea whether these actually work as advertised. Try it, let us know how it goes
