changing Front Brake Pads For Towing TT

2012Coleman wrote:
My Tundra went through rotors fast -

Tundras chew through front brakes if you do any sort of towing, as evidenced by many posts in the Tundra forums. I was running through a set every 15k miles with the typical pedal pulse that everyone describes as warped rotors.

Turns out rotors don't warp. What happens is that pads can leave tiny deposits on the rotors when they get hot. Those deposits tend to attract more deposits. The end result is pulsing in the pedal that gets worse over time.

After replacing the brakes with factory pads/rotors a couple of times, I went to after market: cheap rotors and EBC Yellowstuff pads (I first tried expensive rotors because, before I researched, I thought the rotors were the problem...but I mated them to OEM pads and they were shortly ruined).

30k miles later...15k of which was towing 8k pounds...and no pulsing (...with OEM, I had moderate pulsing by 10k miles that became unbearable by 15k). The only downside is increased brake dust--there are probably better pads in that regard than Yellowstuff.

My point: pulsing / "warped rotors" is almost always a pad issue.