Dan Martin

I've had my TSX for about 3-1/2 years now and I've never touched the brakes. I check the pads and the condition of the rotors twice a year when I switch between summer and winter tires, and every time I've looked, there has been plenty of pad life left.

Now I'm up to 101,000 KM's so I decided it's probably time to replace the pads and to do a brake fluid flush at the same time. So I picked up the parts a couple weeks ago and finally got around to the job last weekend. I got the car up on stands and took all the wheels off to have a good look at all corners. I couldn't believe what I saw! The front pads still have 50% life and the rears still have 30-40% left!

The rotors are still in great shape with 28mm thickness (26mm is the minimum).

I decided to just do the brake fluid flush and left the original pads on. At this rate, I probably won't have to do the rears until the fall at the earliest and I've still got at least a year or two to go on the fronts.

Engine braking for the win!

I really haven't been driving any differently than I did in my Golf, but in that car I had to do a brake job every 60,000-80,000 km's, which I thought is pretty typical for most cars.

Maybe I checked off the secret carbon-ceramic composite brake option when I ordered my TSX....

jmathew34

damn; i've gone through about 3-4 sets of pads and 1 set of front rotors already...94k and going

dom

Nice. I'm surprised your rear pads lasted that long as we've had a few reports of shorter rear pad vs front pad life. My rear pads were gone at 38K on my AT. As for the fronts, no surprise. I was on originals at 83K with my AT when I got rid of it.

Hopefully the engine can handle all that engine braking.

jiggaman

i have 65K on my TSX and was thinking it was time for my brake pads to be replaced also and my dealer said i had plenty of life left on them too. engine breaking definately FTMFW

moda_way

71k miles, 2 sets of front pads, 1 set of front rotors, 1 set of rear pads.

CCColtsicehockey

good lord, I went through first set of pads at 12,000miles. tell you how bad I beat on the car to begin with.

moda_way

And still beating on it.

jiggaman

one thing that i think is acting up again though is my rear camber kit. had to already replace it once because it was making clunking sounds and it seems to be doing it again.

spc

I have past 40,000 miles (roughly 64,000 km) with the original pads and rotors and yesterday at the dealership doing oil change, service guy told me that front and rear pads estimately have about 50% life left. Well, I drove mostly suburban road mixed with city road. I don't use SS to engine brake, just let the AT do the job.

TSXinTN

Just passed 80K miles yesterday and I have replaced all four pads (70K) and had all the rotors resurfaced twice (25K and 50K). I imagine the rotors will need replaced very soon.

Mokos23

wow a lot of high miled TSX's here. i'm happy that i'm almost at 41,000 miles and i had to get my rotors and brakes redone at 35,000 miles.

sonnyg80

wow, that's awesome! im only at like 11k so i can't really say much

EuRTSX

I just hit 13k Miles......

hyun

engine braking if done properly puts little to no strain on your engine. i made a thead a while ago about engine braking and everyone seemed so against it..

kuri

I'm only 40,000km in and my fronts and rears and down to 30% and 20% already. How do you do it?