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- 2016 CX-5
not sure if any member mentioned this, but I was rotating my tires today and just for the heck of it wanted to check the parking brakes
low and behold, there was no "parking brake shoes" (not sure if that's the right term, but in my previous non-electric parking brakes they were like two piece semi-circles with springs that engaged via friction against the rear rotor internal hat and they always caused squealing after putting in a new rotor, and there were always a hassle to put on and get them exactly right, there was like a tiny gear teeth dial that you had to turn to get it just right, it was really a hassle, but now looks like Mazda did away with that entirely,
I popped off the rear rotor and there was nothing, the parking brakes are the regular rear pads when the e-brake is activated the pads clamp down on the rotor.....
also, from previous past experiences with rusted on rotors, I also wanted to remove that stupid one rotor screw that always gets rusted and has to be drilled out (well guess what? there is no screw !! there's a hole in the rotor but no matching hole in the hub and no philips flathead screw lilke my previous cars, those screws are useless anyways, they always get rusted and make what should be a simple rotor replacement job a nightmare, they're just usually to hold the rotor in place for Mazda assembly line)
I added anti-seize at the rotor/hub interface so the rotor will not get rusted to the hub and I won't need a rubber hammer to remove the rotor when it comes time to replace....in the past, I've had times where I literally had to bang on the rotor for like a good half hour to get them off...... even heat or PB Blaster didn't work..... I learned my lesson
just sharing, hopes this helps someone....
so I guess the new feature called "brake hold" for stop and go traffic really is using the regular brake pads, not the parking brakes or e-brake that I've been reading.
low and behold, there was no "parking brake shoes" (not sure if that's the right term, but in my previous non-electric parking brakes they were like two piece semi-circles with springs that engaged via friction against the rear rotor internal hat and they always caused squealing after putting in a new rotor, and there were always a hassle to put on and get them exactly right, there was like a tiny gear teeth dial that you had to turn to get it just right, it was really a hassle, but now looks like Mazda did away with that entirely,
I popped off the rear rotor and there was nothing, the parking brakes are the regular rear pads when the e-brake is activated the pads clamp down on the rotor.....
also, from previous past experiences with rusted on rotors, I also wanted to remove that stupid one rotor screw that always gets rusted and has to be drilled out (well guess what? there is no screw !! there's a hole in the rotor but no matching hole in the hub and no philips flathead screw lilke my previous cars, those screws are useless anyways, they always get rusted and make what should be a simple rotor replacement job a nightmare, they're just usually to hold the rotor in place for Mazda assembly line)
I added anti-seize at the rotor/hub interface so the rotor will not get rusted to the hub and I won't need a rubber hammer to remove the rotor when it comes time to replace....in the past, I've had times where I literally had to bang on the rotor for like a good half hour to get them off...... even heat or PB Blaster didn't work..... I learned my lesson
just sharing, hopes this helps someone....
so I guess the new feature called "brake hold" for stop and go traffic really is using the regular brake pads, not the parking brakes or e-brake that I've been reading.
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