Update.
Rear brakes will need to be replaced rather soon. I suspect this happens to owners in snowbelt areas.
How does snow were down rear brakes faster then the front?
Update.
Rear brakes will need to be replaced rather soon. I suspect this happens to owners in snowbelt areas.
How does snow were down rear brakes faster then the front?
Update.
Just peeked through my wheels with roughly 55k miles on the clock.
Front brakes look good, roughly 10-15k KM left on those.
Rear brakes will need to be replaced rather soon. I suspect this happens to owners in snowbelt areas.
Snowbelt areas that salt the roadways during the winter to be precise. The design/shape of the parking shoe hat thing traps salt which dries out the Caliper sliding pins and decreases braking performance on the rear axle. You need to keep the pins in the rear lubed yearly or salt will accumulate and accelerate wear.
This is something I read on a different forum. Guy said he would always have to lube the pins before moving to Florida and hasn’t had to touch his rear brakes since.
I had a similar issue on my BMW, where the rear brakes weren’t performing that well and causing rust to buildup on the rotor. Nonetheless, I lubed the pins and it made a big difference with stopping power at higher speeds.
It's actually a CX5 problem in some models.
The guide pins are fully enclosed and if the right grease is used, shouldn’t need doing every year even in a snowy environment. It doesn’t harm having said that. A more likely source of problem should be the ears of the pads which are exposed and even then, if greased properly, should do more than one winter.
That is true but it implies that only CX-5s suffer when in fact a number of brands have similar problems.
Wow very interesting... thank you.. lube the pins, is that a simple or difficult thing to do? A DIY thing?
The guide pins are fully enclosed and if the right grease is used, shouldn’t need doing every year even in a snowy environment. It doesn’t harm having said that. A more likely source of problem should be the ears of the pads which are exposed and even then, if greased properly, should do more than one winter.
That is true but it implies that only CX-5s suffer when in fact a number of brands have similar problems.
I'm sure they do, but I've never owned any vehicles that wore the rear pads down first. Even my CX5 seems to be doing fine, really, except the warped (whatever you want to call it) rotors. 65k miles and plenty of pads left.
Wow very interesting... thank you.. lube the pins, is that a simple or difficult thing to do? A DIY thing?
Naw, same price as any other rear pads.
correct, the OEM pads are the same, but the parking hat mechanism is a different electronic design. two different parts.