Brake Pad Wear Indicator Installation Side
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- Опубліковано 3 сер 2024
- This is on my wife’s 2013 Honda Ridgeline….it is having passenger rear brake heating issues. Did a quick and lazy pad swap to try to narrow down the cause. Figured I would put a tips and tricks video out about the wear indicator. There is a raging debate about what side of the rotor it goes on. Newest battle topic is that it goes on the side of the caliper that has the piston as it would wear faster than the other side without a piston. My rebuttals to that is on my sports cars….with 4 piston calipers, there is still only one tab per side. So my calipers have two pistons on each side yet the pads still only have one wear indicator tab per wheel. That means you still put that tab on the inside for a audio indicator and use your eyes as a visual indicator for the outside.
I just bought a set of brake pads and there's a wear indicator on every pad. Have you ever seen anything like that? Should I return them or am I fine?
I have seen them and used them like that, totally fine
Does it matter which side the wear indicator goes on driver side (left) or (right) passenger side?
There is a wear indicator for the inside of each of the driver and passenger sides of the vehicle
I put the one with the tab on the outside not the inner side does that matter? Please reply.
As long as you can look at the pad and see how much material is remaining it will be fine
I was under the impression that the squeler was supposed to be on the leading edge of the rotor, not the downward or trailing edge. Any thoughts?
That might be true. I don’t know if it is for more wear or more noise. I will have to look on my ASE study guide to see the common method
@@martinrps13 In this case, the "leading edge" means the edge of the brake pad where the rotor is moving TOWARDS the brake pad when the vehicle is moving forward. So, the leading edge is actually on the bottom of the pad when looking at it from the rear (as in this video). Imagine the car rolling forward, the wheel/rotor will move towards the bottom of the brake pad and "AWAY" from the top. So, in this video, it is installed on the "leading edge" and thus is installed properly.
I have been lazy and haven’t even done the other three sides. This one was having an issue and is good so I might just leave it and do all of them at the same time. Old pads I took off had about 75% of the material on them still. I greased everything up and it is good now
😂 Gee, did you figure that at all by yourself? I guess it doesn't really matter if you change the pads when they're less than half wornblike the one you showed. That pad had at least another 20K left in it under normal driving conditions. Little less stop and go.
Pads were replaced due to a over heating issue on that side only. I am trying to narrow down the cause of it. Typically I change the pads and rotor at the same time but I like to know exactly what fixes the issue so just pads right now.
You did not see the other three brake pads. Are you just guessing? Can you only elevate yourself by putting others down?
Brake pads are cheap. I replace mine well before they wear out. I do them when it is nice and dry and warm out on my own time, not when I am forced to do it and it is -30 C out.