Three years of brake jobs before I caught my torque pattern mistake

I've been swapping rotors and calipers since 2021, always tightening lug nuts in a star pattern and calling it good... then a customer's wheel started wobbling at 60 mph on I-80 last month. Turns out I was torquing the caliper bracket bolts to spec but not in the right order, so the bracket was warping slightly under heat. Anyone else had a basic step get past them for that long, and what finally tipped you off?

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wren_jackson10d ago

Why do we always learn the dumb stuff after years of doing it right? Yeah, did that with rotor bolts last spring, same wobbly mess.