Bad brakes may not always be what you think.

 

Case in point, a zed having multi jobs done had a reported poor brakes and the owner requested we change the front discs amd pads, this is a very common problem and blaming the front disc set up is not always the way to go, a quick inspection of the rear discs revealed much more.

 

The rear of the discs condition was worse than the front, with so little pad swept area actually doing anything this transfers more load to the fronts so they end up heating up much quicker and performance drops off, as it happens the front discs and pads were ok.

 

 

 

 

The inside of the discs were also in a bad way with lots of debris in there, no way could the handbrake grip and new discs was the only way forward, along with new pads and new fluid to replace the overheated soup that was in there.

 

 

 

Jeff TT

Edited August 2, 201213 yr by JeffTT

Holy moly

someone running on the metal of the pads?

 

how did they not notice sooner, though saying that, i had a friend on face book (female) said her car failed the mot due to no rear break pads, as in there were no pads left, she said although she had a noise at the rear, she just turned the stereo up to hide it :blink: