I am on my 7th CVO. I have never had rotors replaced on any of them until this 2019. I have 45,600 miles on the bike, and am on the 5th set of rotors replaced under warranty. Front rim was replace once to see if that is why they are warping. Many people I know with 2019 CVO Road glides are having same issue.
My wife's Heritage has 103,300 miles on it, factory rotors. Most all my CVO's went over 45K on stock rotors, but not my 2019
I've been working on a 2019 Road Glide Special front brake issue where the rider feels 'pulsations' in the brake lever:
- I measured the run-out at the right rotor at over .014" and the left at .003" so recommended replacement of the right rotor
- the new rotor was installed and guess what....I still measured over .009" on the right, maybe even more!
- just to test, I swapped the left hand rotor to the right side, and still found over .009"
- it's possible the hub surface is out on the right side, but the owner did not want to go with a new wheel, and instead wanted me to install new wheel bearings in the front to try that.
- installed the new wheel bearings, and the owner claims it is much better. I now measured a little less than .008" run-out on the right and the left side now measured a bit higher than it did with the original bearings, but within spec.
- I felt that I could still sense some pulsations at the lever when I tested the bike at low speed and lightly applying the front brake.
- Just out of interest, I removed the grease seal on the original right side bearing (regular bearing, not the ABS) I had removed, to see if I could observe anything. I found that while the bearings were all intact and didn't feel too bad, the bearing retainer cage was cracked in 2 spots. This may have happened during the extraction process, or when I was hammering on the metal grease seal to check out the bearing, not really sure. I think maybe I did feel a little 'clicking' when I checked the bearing before extraction from the hub.
- so other than the wheel being defective, I don't have any other ideas at this point. I'm not sure if the bike has always had this issue or if it developed later on.
The rotors are the stock Road Glide Special rotors.