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Uneven Brake Pad & Rotor Wear on 5 Lug?

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Old Aug 13, 2011 | 10:31 PM
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Default Uneven Brake Pad & Rotor Wear on 5 Lug?

Recently installed brand new OEM Honda pads and rotors on my 5 lug ek. Did the usual procedures rotors, pads, bleed. After a couple of miles i noticed that the rear passenger wheel was starting to wear unevenly. Looks like pads are only touching the outter half of the rotor and the inner rotor is building rust and no wear. I googled a picture and labeled what is happening. What could be causing this situation?


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Old Aug 14, 2011 | 12:23 AM
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Default Re: Uneven Brake Pad & Rotor Wear on 5 Lug?

Replace the calipers. I had a mazda that had uneven rotor wear and the calipers were the issue.

EDIT: Or it could have been a bad 5 lug conversion (assuming it used to be a 4 lug (sorry, I'm still a little new to Hondas))
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Old Aug 14, 2011 | 02:17 AM
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Default Re: Uneven Brake Pad & Rotor Wear on 5 Lug?

But I didn't have this problem with my old rotors and pads?
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Old Aug 14, 2011 | 06:11 AM
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Default Re: Uneven Brake Pad & Rotor Wear on 5 Lug?

Originally Posted by Rhys!
But I didn't have this problem with my old rotors and pads?
But in order to put the new pads in the car you had to compress the piston for the rear caliper. The ebrake mech inside the caliper is very easly damaged when doing this. Also did you take out all the slide pins and clean and lube them with a good synthetic caliper lube, if you used brake clean on any of the rubber guides they WILL SWELL and cause the slide pins to bind and cause the uneaven wear you are having. If you didnt take them out and relube them then I bet they are seized. I have rebuilt and relubed so many of these rear calipers I just order a set of remanufactured and replace them any time I do rear brakes
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Old Aug 14, 2011 | 05:02 PM
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Default Re: Uneven Brake Pad & Rotor Wear on 5 Lug?

just disassembled the rear caliper and was wondering if there were any way you can identify that its the caliper causing the problem. I just remembered that on this caliper i replaced the pin and bolt due to bolt breaking during the swap, would this cause issue?
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