I have a 2001 Accord LX sedan with 209,000 miles. I did a front and rear brake job today - new pads and caliper pins up front, new shoes in back, stainless hoses all around (the rubber hoses were brittle and starting to crack). NIce to stop the car without sounding like I'm squaring off a screwdriver tip on the bench grinder! :D Now this is the weird part: I pulled the drum off the right rear (left rear was essentially the same), hosed it down with brake parts cleaner, and lo and behold everything looked nearly brand new.


No leaks, no grease, just a lot of brake dust. The shoes looked like they still had about half their thickness. The drums looked pristine. Pretty much no wear at all. Mind you, this is the first time I've had the drums off since I bought the car almost new. That's 16 years and 209,000 miles! Just what *IS* the front-to-rear brake bias in this car anyway? I figured by 209k the shoes'd be gone, the shoe frames would be mostly gone, and the drums would be trashed. Go figure.

 

I just heard someone else took theirs off and the shoes were half gone at 150k. you have the same mileage as me. at this age what I did was rebuilt all 4 calipers. mine are all disk brakes though. the fronts disk calipers are much easier to rebuild and it's $17 each for the honda rebuild kit, or $82 for honda rebuilt calipers, hmm maybe you should just wait to get the rebuilt ones for $82. you have to send in your old calipers. but to answer your question the brake shoes last forever x2

 

80/20 what happens is the star adjuster seizes up and doesn't allow the adjuster star to adjust so that the rear brakes are adjusted properly...also when you don't use the ebrake, which is designed to adjust the rear brakes, it will fall out of adjustment as well

the best thing to do is to adjust the star all the way out and put some brake grease all around the threads so it doesn't seize up anymore, or you can just pull the brake apart and add some when you have it apart when you add grease to the moving parts and the backing plate

 

Ok, that's an explanation that makes sense. The star wheel screws were a bit sticky when I got everything apart.. They got a thorough cleaning and some hi-temp brake grease when it all went back together.