At Buttonwillow last weekend I was getting a lot of shudder under braking by the end of the second day, so I figured I finally warped out my rear rotors. They survived for 2 years, 47000 miles, and 10 track schools, so I figure they'd had a good run.

Or so I thought.

After replacing with new rotors on Saturday, the shudder was not fixed. Now, this is doublely depressing because it means that not only did I waste $150 replacing rear rotors that were not damaged, but also I have warped out my brand new $200 set of front rotors after just 2 months. That was a quick $350!

But wait, it gets worse.

Last night going over to a friends house, I notice that the shudder has now become somewhat violent, and even when not under braking I get this interesting ticking sound.

I turn the flashlight on, and after 30 seconds of searching I notice this:

Then when I got the pads and rotors off the car, I saw that the pads had been chewed to hell. Not sure if this caused or was caused by the rotor crack:

So now I have an undrivable car with brand new brakes, and apparently I can kill any rotor in 2 months. I'm going to bitch at StopTech, but in the end it seems like I'm probably going to end up having to upgrade my rotors, which means a $2000 kit followed by a lifetime of $500 brake jobs. Great.