Anderson

New to the site, also a new owner of a 98 CL3.0

It was a relatives car, meticulously maintained, and hardly used. It has under 26k miles.

Brakes were still original and I started to hear the indicator noise. Brought it to my shop and just got the call that the fronts are fine for now but the rear needs pads and rotors!

They said that the rotors were too thin to cut. But they have never been changed before! He told me that the factory original rear rotors were skimpy and that is what often happens for the first pad change.

Anyone expirience this before? Having to change the rotors on the first pad change at 26k miles or is someone pulling my chain? TIA!

Jamz

welcome


I have a '98 3.0 and I replaced all 4 pads/rotors at about 75,000 miles

26k seems odd........and I would think the fronts would wear before the rears

klepto

time to upgrade to some brembos

Anderson

Thanks for the replies,

I decided to call the service dept. of my local Acura dealership and run it by them.

They told me that they usually can cut the rear rotors twice before replacing on that model under the assumtion that the calipers were not sticking and the owner did not groove them deeply by driving the car for a while after the indicator started indicating.

The shop is now cutting them to see if they pass the minimum thickness afterwards.
I'm leaning towards the explanation that they took the "better safe than sorry" stance because this shop has done a lot of stuff for me in the past and always treated me fair.

Anyways we will see tomorrow!

baka_t

The pads were prolly changed before and replaced with cheap ass pads. Either that, or the rotors and pads were metal/metal for sometime.

CLUofI

it could have been a 2 footed driver, that could kill a set of pads in no time

circuitcah

...or maybe they drove for an extended time with the e-brake partially set??

vansonrider

I would have to say on that one. I just replaced my rears at 144K after towing for about 130k of that. I guess anything is possible but I find this highly unlikely.
Speaking of Brembos I'm in the process of trying to get the ones I got from Tire Rack replaced. They are only two months old and the rotor hat, is that right?, is completely rusted. My OEM brakes were six years old and never did that. My fronts, Power Slot, are not rusted at all. So if you do upgrade I would go with Power Slot. Good luck.

When they do the brake job make sure the calipers are not sticking. I had my left rear doing that. It caused the pads to wear at an angle. All they or you have to do is grease the pistons.

Anderson

UPDATE:

After turning the rear rotors they ended up exactly at the minimum nominal width outline by Acura specs before needing replacement so the original rotors were able to be utilized. Therefore I should be able to get another 25-30K out of these SAME rotors. That's a big difference between 25k so I'm happy about that!

Thanks all!