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Bangster

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Thought the crunchy brakes would be solved in the front, who wears out rears faster than fronts? I do. I looked and thought I had plenty of pad left, forgot about that riveted spring.



I thought that carbon fiber ceramic pads would last. The front ones had plenty of material, but had some bad spots.

I am pretty hard on the car, so brakes every 15,000 miles isn't out of the realm of normal, these did sneak up on me.
 
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Bangster

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Yup, on both sides the inboard pads were down to the rivet. The outside pads had an extra mm of material left...


It isn't traction control as I have a module that disables it every time I start up the car, and when/if the TC isn't disabled at start up, I disable it.
 
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ONLYTONY

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Sounds like the calipers are pushing the inner pad, but the outer pad never touches the rotor. Are the slide pins clean and lubed? Piston not retracting, wearing out inner pad. I put some of these new springs on that put pressure on the pads so they retract. A few $$ on Rock auto. Normally rear brakes last at least 1 1/2 times the front.
 
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Bangster

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The pads with actual friction material are the new ones. I think the rears had been doing more work lately due to the front ones having heat related issues. If I was braking from...lets say more than 75 mph in a lets say...aggressive manner, it would nearly rattle the rear view mirror off. Then the next 20 times I stopped like that it was fine.

The inboard pads on the front wore more than the outboard ones, and just as slightly as the rears. I had plenty of meat left on the front, but I think they got heat cycled 100 times too many, and too high of temps somehow, these are carbon metallic ceramic pads, should be grippy and heat resistant.

All new slides on all four corners, the pistons on both rear calipers fell out, one stayed in the bore and I could compress it a little to get it back engaged so I could screw it in, the other it popped out and had to wrestle it back in the seal and so where I could screw it in (since new pads have 1.5 inches more friction material). I have only seen the pistons fall out on MN12s with older calipers and newer (thinner) rotors.
 
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ONLYTONY

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Bangster said:
The pads with actual friction material are the new ones. I think the rears had been doing more work lately due to the front ones having heat related issues. If I was braking from...lets say more than 75 mph in a lets say...aggressive manner, it would nearly rattle the rear view mirror off. Then the next 20 times I stopped like that it was fine.

The inboard pads on the front wore more than the outboard ones, and just as slightly as the rears. I had plenty of meat left on the front, but I think they got heat cycled 100 times too many, and too high of temps somehow, these are carbon metallic ceramic pads, should be grippy and heat resistant.

All new slides on all four corners, the pistons on both rear calipers fell out, one stayed in the bore and I could compress it a little to get it back engaged so I could screw it in, the other it popped out and had to wrestle it back in the seal and so where I could screw it in (since new pads have 1.5 inches more friction material). I have only seen the pistons fall out on MN12s with older calipers and newer (thinner) rotors.
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The inners will wear more than the outer pads, but down to metal isn't right. Your front might be glazed, see if they are shiney. I just clean them with emery cloth.
 
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Bangster

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ONLYTONY said:
The inners will wear more than the outer pads, but down to metal isn't right. Your front might be glazed, see if they are shiney. I just clean them with emery cloth.
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The fronts are smoked, the inboard ones are the ones past the center groove. Not a great picture but you can see quarter sized spots where a change of matter occurred, or something bad anyways.
 
Lvnmarks

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Back to the 50's show this weekend in St Paul with 12,000 cars 1964 and older.Sure was hot out.

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I know some of you guys would have some fun here.
 
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Bangster

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On another board we do stupid odometer tricks:


Not odometer but when it is over 100 degrees at 10 pm you know the day was warm, and tomorrow calls for 120. That is in Phoenix, I went back home to top "only" out at 116(ish).
 
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Bangster

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Lvnmarks said:
Back to the 50's show this weekend in St Paul with 12,000 cars 1964 and older.Sure was hot out.

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I know some of you guys would have some fun here.
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Isn't that station wagon newer than the 50?

It has been awhile since I have attended a car show that is more than an autoparts store putting it on, a local "cholo" car club and low riders, or don't touch 300,000 dollar cars.
 
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steve

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Bangster said:
On another board we do stupid odometer tricks:


Not odometer but when it is over 100 degrees at 10 pm you know the day was warm, and tomorrow calls for 120. That is in Phoenix, I went back home to top "only" out at 116(ish).
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Too hot, I could never live there :)
 
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