R56 New Rear Brakes @ 23,000?
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New Rear Brakes @ 23,000?
I just took my car in for service and they replaced the rear brake pads. This puzzles me. I don't drift or use the hand brake for anything but parking. Why did the rear wear before the front? Are the pads softer than every other cars oem pads? Is the car set up so that most of the braking power is on the back? The SA was unable to offer any good answers. Ultimately, it cost me nothing, I just thought it weird.
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From what I know about the MINI and just about every car, the front brakes do most of the work. My fronts wore out way before my rear brakes did.
Did you get a wear light indication? Did they replace the rear rotors at the same time? If not, then I suspect they noticed something wrong with the pads rather than them being worn out.
Did you get a wear light indication? Did they replace the rear rotors at the same time? If not, then I suspect they noticed something wrong with the pads rather than them being worn out.
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That would be strange that you would have to replace the rears first. Generally wear of the rear would be attributed to a problem with the calipers, but I've read the excessive DCS can also cause uneven wear (lost of hard braking during turns, hard accelerations during turns). When you brake, do you brake in a straight line or do you brake in turns? Same questions for accelerations.
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I just took my car in for service and they replaced the rear brake pads. This puzzles me. I don't drift or use the hand brake for anything but parking. Why did the rear wear before the front? Are the pads softer than every other cars oem pads? Is the car set up so that most of the braking power is on the back? The SA was unable to offer any good answers. Ultimately, it cost me nothing, I just thought it weird.
Correct me if I am wrong, but I think the parking brake is actually a set of drum brakes that is in the hat of the rotor.
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OP, Is the handbrake all of the way down when driving around, not one click up? Maybe it needs adjustment?
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My Corvette and my F-350 have that setup. I thought our R56 car had it, but I see I am wrong. I never worked on the brakes on my car, but I rotate the tires ever 3000. The reason I though they had it is that the rear brake has a large hat on the rear rotor like it would have the shoes in there. I also saw that star screw in the hat and assumed it was an adjuster for the parking brake like my corvette.
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