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TOPIC: Do I really need new brakes?
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Date: Tues, Jun 15 2010 10:24 pm
From: AZ Nomad
On Tue, 15 Jun 2010 21:47:31 -0700, jim beam <me@privacy.net> wrote:
>On 06/15/2010 08:59 PM, AZ Nomad wrote:
>> On Tue, 15 Jun 2010 18:33:03 -0700, jim beam<me@privacy.net> wrote:
>>> On 06/15/2010 03:34 PM, A. Nonimus wrote:
>>>> On May 26, 7:04???am, "E. Meyer"<epmeye...@msn.com> wrote:
>>>>> On 5/24/10 4:14 AM, in article
>>>>> 7f35a006-e889-409d-8294-6e2fbd977...@g1g2000pro.googlegroups.com, "A.
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> Nonimus"<mindfulness...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>>> On May 20, 8:39???pm, "E. Meyer"<epmeye...@msn.com> wrote:
>>>>>>> On 5/20/10 4:50 PM, in article Xns9D7EB5885B247teg...@208.90.168.18,
>>>>>> ???OK. Honda recommends it, but my experience
>>>>>>> says they don't vibrate when you change the pads, the wear is acceptable (at
>>>>>>> least 90k miles between pad changes), and I have not experienced a rotor
>>>>>>> destroyed because of a stuck caliper eating off the outer pad. ???I have
>>>>>>> experienced a stuck caliper and the wear indicator signaled the wear prior
>>>>>>> to any damage.
>>>>>
>>>>>>> I do agree that 2mm is time to replace the pads. ???That's pretty thin. ???
>>>>>
>>>>>> See - this is why I suspect my Honda Dealer is lying to me. As you
>>>>>> say, "90k miles between pad changes"...
>>>>>> This is exactly what my former-mechanic friend said to me, that no way
>>>>>> I should need brakes at 14k miles.
>>>>>
>>>>>> I guess I won't know until I get someone I can trust to open up the
>>>>>> brakes and show them to me.
>>>>>> Yeah, they have to show them at the Dealer but I figure they just keep
>>>>>> an old one with 2mm laying around so they can use that to show me...
>>>>>
>>>>> Just ask them to show you while they're still on the car. ???If they have
>>>>> already shown you a pads off the car, then you know what they look like. ???On
>>>>> the car look to see what's between the plate and the rotor (big shiny disk
>>>>> that gets squeezed by the brake pads). ???Actually you can easily look at the
>>>>> outer pad yourself by simply removing the wheel as if changing a flat
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