Rear brakes first?

[ZiO]

ANyone figure out why our rear pads would go before the front?

ALso, anyone have a link to some good brakes pads or pads/rotors?

thanks in advance.

[aMaff]

mis adjusted @ the caliper maybe? But they're supposed to self adjust. Could be the hand brake cable's too tight so it's not 100% releasing and dragging the brakes a touch. Are the rear wheels really hot after a drive?


EDIT: Forgot the most obvious, most usual suspects: un-greased slider pins. If they're not properly lubed, they'll definitely cause them to drag.

[TheMAN]

uhh, it's normal!

[P-Funk!]

^huh? Mine are biased to the front (like they should be) and i wear my fronts faster.

[The Short Bus]

Yeah my fronts were worn quite a bit more than the rear

[i12drivemyMP5]

My shit wore evenly front to back. The inside front pads that the piston actually pushes on were about 1/16 an inch less left over than the other 6 pads. The other 6 all had about 3/16 an inch left when I changed them. These were brembo/hawk/goodridge lines that went about 75k to get that low. Just put fresh rotors/pads on, lubed sliders & pushed fresh syn brake fluid thru them all.

[Tom03es]

Mine wore fairly evenly but the backs were completely worn out about 2 months before the fronts. And when I say "completely", I mean COMPLETELY:

Front:
http://www.msprotege.com/members/Tom03es/front_brake_pad.jpg

Rear:
http://www.msprotege.com/members/Tom03es/rear%20disc%20brake%20job%20(2).JPG

[the tortoise]

EDIT: Forgot the most obvious, most usual suspects: un-greased slider pins. If they're not properly lubed, they'll definitely cause them to drag.

Ding ding.

Apparently if you drive on salty roads and don't annually (at least) service the rear brakes they've been known to drag. This wears them out much much faster.

[i12drivemyMP5]

Mine wore fairly evenly but the backs were completely worn out about 2 months before the fronts. And when I say "completely", I mean COMPLETELY:

Front:
http://www.msprotege.com/members/Tom03es/front_brake_pad.jpg

Rear:
http://www.msprotege.com/members/Tom03es/rear%20disc%20brake%20job%20(2).JPGThat completely worn one is about how my inside fronts were only a little bit more uniform but just as thin. Rest were about 1/8 an inch left.

[Spinout]

Well the only that was wrong with mine was that rear right caliper piston got locked up, then replace the brakes, adjust the brakes. But when I used the e brake 4 times after that the ebrake went all the way up. Came to find out the e cable had to be replace. But about 4 months after I change my rotors to Brembo slotted and drilled rotors.

[RockerPro5]

Assuming that the front/rear brakes are adjusted properly from the beginning, most P5's I've looked at have even wear. I think it should be even, generally.

Does anyone think the uneven wear is due to the Electronic Brake Force Distribution (EBD) system? Under normal straight line braking, the EBD should make for even wear.

[asmo 03 mp5]

My rears wore just a bit faster than the front