How to badly fit brake pads...

[neilclark]

Ex-wifes car (tigra) needed front pads so I got some to fit, there's an inner pad and an outer pad which look quite different. Someone before me had fitted both inner pads to one side and both outer pads to the other lol......



The metal is bending and the pad material is coming away!

[Mercdan68]

Ex wife??? I would of done a proper job on my ex wife's brakes.......

[neilclark]

Jun 19, 2016 12:08:30 GMT Mercdan68 said:

Ex wife??? I would of done a proper job on my ex wife's brakes.......

Lol she's a diamond really

[shagracer]

Diamonds are for ever, wifes come and go!

[richr]

Believe it or not I have seen pads that were fitted along with an upgrade of callipers for larger discs.
They forgot to fit the larger discs so eventually the pads touched above the old discs.
This was a performance car garage.
Scary or what

[stealthstylz]

I've been wondering how they'd work if you used pads with some of the friction material outside the diameter of the disk (whether they'd go to touching etc). I want better calipers on my car car but although the disks are a fairly large 290mk diameter the actual friction surface is tiny, so all other calipers have far too much pad area for the surface available

[sal]

I bought a Calibra recently and the front discs were two different sizes. One was correct at 256mm and the other was a few mm smaller but with a larger centre bore that an oe wheel wouldn't go over.

Rear brakes were just as shonky. Shoes in the boot and god knows what discs had been fitted but whatever they were they had been badly re-drilled to fit the stud pattern.

[taurus]

I bought a new Escort back in the day. Only new car I ever had. The gear lever came off in my hand as I pulled out of the dealership.

When they'd fixed that I noticed the brakes were a bit noisy so I jacked it up and took the f/n/s wheel off. The brake calliper fell off with it. It hadn't been attached to the carrier.

Never bought another Ford after that.

[Wilk]

My lad bought a samurai jeep as a run around. He said the brakes pulled to one side. So without looking he bought some new pads and then proceeded to swap them
After the first side he took the wheel off of the other side to find the rotor free spinning..... It wasn't because there was my anything retaining the disc, it was more for the fact the pads had worn down to the metal and then slipped out their carrier and rested on the disc. This had then worn through the disc and cut off the rotor part from the rest of the casting


The best part, the jeep had 12 months mot!

[outrage]

Jun 19, 2016 20:14:24 GMT richr said:

Believe it or not I have seen pads that were fitted along with an upgrade of callipers for larger discs.
They forgot to fit the larger discs so eventually the pads touched above the old discs.
This was a performance car garage.
Scary or what

seen this on a motorcycle except everything was stock. A friend complained about brake performance getting poor. So we discovered ill fitting pads. Getting worn, at some point the unused part of the pads got in touch outside of the disc… got it sorted at the moment with a coarse file, but my friend got the proper pads fitted ASAP.

[Dorset_Clive]

I cant remember if this has been posted on RR before (may have been PH), but you should think yourself lucky you actually had brake pad brake pads in there!!

mattersoftesting.blog.gov.uk/horror-story-wooden-brake-pads/

[hario]

You mean like so?

(Investigated after wondering why it was so easy to do rolling burnouts without a line lock) As you do...

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Jun 22, 2016 17:43:02 GMT hario said:

Good God thats terrifying

[mikeymk]

I changed a set on an old Polo to find one side had both inner pads and one side had both outer pads. It's not like the pads were almost identical, the friction material was a completely different shape, with the outers being a quarter-moon crescent and the inners virtually square.. the person fitting them before i bought the car must've known, and just figured they'd got mis-matched pads and chosen to match them per se..

[outrage]

Jun 22, 2016 17:43:02 GMT hario said:

You mean like so?

Exactly.
BTW: The caliper looks as if it was pulled out of the North Sea after a couple of decades...

[hario]

Jun 23, 2016 15:19:18 GMT outrage said:

Jun 22, 2016 17:43:02 GMT hario said:

You mean like so?

Exactly.
BTW: The caliper looks as if it was pulled out of the North Sea after a couple of decades...

\lol. I recon because Mercedes, they never actually seize so they never get replaced, the piston seals are industrial quality!

Anyway I bought W220 S500 rears to upgrade anyway.