ok i had this horrible constant grinding sound comming from my rear brakes.. (disk convo) oh and btw its a 93 cx. but anyways so yesterday i got tired of hearing that sound (been half a year) and i decided to do something about it.. i took the wheel off and removed the caliper and noticed that the front pad was normal.. almost brand *** new... but the rear was JUNK.. it had gotten so thin it fell inbetween where the pad is supposed to sit and the rotor.. so it was always touching... Here are the pics..

 

and dont say "why didnt you change it before" because with no job or money its kinda hard.. plus the rear brakes are **** in my car so i didnt care about the rotors

 

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And i thought i was neglectful.

 

That shitty. But I've seen worse. My buddies car had almost no part of the pad left and was forced to change everything when the rotor touched the caliper and the rotor started breaking off in pieces

 

oh the rotor btw is about an 1/8 inch thick now.... if that....

 

Ohhhhh brake pad....lol

 

That sucks man. I had an oldsmobile and the calipers were constantly messed up. They did the same thing as that on 1 side and the other side was brand new. But it will be nice to not have the gringing sound when you brake.

 

Seen worse, but that's still shitty.

Did the piston in the caliper push out so far that it won't go back in? That's when you know you've really messed up.

 

Ive seen just as bad also, but yea that why now my friends car wheel is fucked up from all the break dust it made since they were so warn down. probalby not explainign that the right way. but yeah those are woornn down

 

yea yours arent as bad as the ones that my bro pulled off his olds 88 last night. they were thinner than that and had shards of metal sticking out of them. the rotors were also a pretty sight

 

my uncles land cruser he didnt change the pads dunno how long.
took it to my dad's cousin's shop and had it inspected. turns out there was no pad left just the metal backing part griding on the rotors. the rotors were so thin they cracked in half when they were removed.
the calipers pads and rotors all have to be replaced.
i think a few more times the front brakes would have failed. thank god it didnt.

 

seen worse too.....some people

 

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ha ha

 

Pffffffffffft, thats nothing! My scummy *** hick mechanic at my old job one day came to work and was like "huh, my truck was making this terrible noise on the way to work this morning, and every time I hit the brakes it jerked to the left?"

After work, he put his truck up on jacks and pulled the front tires off, one rotor had RUSTED off, so the part where the pad touched and the part that sat on the hub had completely rotted apart from each other. Not to mention most of the bed and cab was rotted off his POS GMC truck.

 

my old f150 work truck was stopping by means of the caliper piston being my brake pad... they POSes they put me in i swear.

 

My Nissan Cefiro does the same, rear disc cracks up during replacement..oh well. didnt change pad/Rotor for like almost 3 years...

 

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I guess you've never seen a pad worn until all of the friction material was gone and the backing plate contacted the rotor, creating so much heat that it welded itself to the caliper piston . . .



Not an uncommon occurance on track cars. Sometimes the cause is neglect to maintain/inspect equipment; sometimes excessive heat causes the friction material to break its bond and start chunking off the backing plate.

https://honda-tech.com/zerothread?id=919456
https://honda-tech.com/zerothread?id=510033

 

Same thing happened to mine when I had my Jeep. Was riding on full metal surface of the pad before I realized it. Rotor surface turned to ****, like grooves that were a few mm thick.

 

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I guess you've never seen a pad worn until all of the friction material was gone and the backing plate contacted the rotor, creating so much heat that it welded itself to the caliper piston . . .



Not an uncommon occurance on track cars. Sometimes the cause is neglect to maintain/inspect equipment; sometimes excessive heat causes the friction material to break its bond and start chunking off the backing plate.

https://honda-tech.com/zerothread?id=919456
https://honda-tech.com/zerothread?id=510033</TD></TR></TABLE>

WOW! That's REALLY bad.

Same things probably going on right now with my sisters mini van. She neglects the poor thing lol . All you hear when she pulls in is *SCRRRRRRRRRRREEEEEEEEEEETTTTTCCCCHHHH x400*. You cant even hear her k24 anymore (kA24 lol)

 

wow cant believe i misspelled brake wrong..my bad.. and my b-pad had gotten so thin that it fell in between the rotor and where the brake pad is supposed to sit so it was always touching..

 

I used to work at a garage and we had this lady (regular customer) come in with her 1995 Jeep Grand Cherokee. She was complaining about poor braking and noise. The first thing I saw was the black RF wheel. We pull the wheel off, and I saw possibly the worse case of neglect that I've ever seen. The rotor was down to fins on the outside, the pad backing plate (no friction material left) was welded to the caliper piston (as seen above), and the caliper was leaking brake fluid from all around the seal because the piston was pushed out so far. The other three wheels didn't look much better. There was little or no friction material left on any of the pads.

The worse part is, she didn't want to get the work done at that time!! We told her that we wouldn't let her drive away like that because it's unsafe and damn irresponsible. It would have been against the law to keep her car there against her will (and yelling). We ended up calling the police on her and having her plates pulled. She then had the $3100 of brake work done at our shop... some people.

 

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I guess you've never seen a pad worn until all of the friction material was gone and the backing plate contacted the rotor, creating so much heat that it welded itself to the caliper piston . . .


Not an uncommon occurance on track cars. Sometimes the cause is neglect to maintain/inspect equipment; sometimes excessive heat causes the friction material to break its bond and start chunking off the backing plate.

https://honda-tech.com/zerothread?id=919456
https://honda-tech.com/zerothread?id=510033</TD></TR></TABLE>

damn...