Honda Brakes?

[Pelican]

My wife has an '08 Honda Accord 2 door coupe with 21,000 miles. For the past week there's been an intermittent grinding noise and today I isolated it to the right rear wheel. I pulled the wheel expecting a piece of gravel behind the dust shield but instead found the brakes are shot. The rotor has a visible warp to it and the inside pad is nearly gone. I think at this point it was the wear indicator or perhaps some rust on the rotor or pad that is rubbing at times. I'm in disbelief though that the rear brakes would be done at 21,000 miles! My wife is not an aggressive driver by any means. Is it common for brakes to go this early on this car?

I'm going to do the pads this weekend, we have snow coming tonight and they aren't critical yet. I'll check the fronts then too, I usually put in two sets of fronts to one rear on other cars.

[chtucker]

Are the rears solid rotors? Sometimes I find that if they are they hold heat alot longer than the vented fronts.

[Plow Dak]

My wife has an '08 Honda Accord 2 door coupe with 21,000 miles. For the past week there's been an intermittent grinding noise and today I isolated it to the right rear wheel. I pulled the wheel expecting a piece of gravel behind the dust shield but instead found the brakes are shot. The rotor has a visible warp to it and the inside pad is nearly gone. I think at this point it was the wear indicator or perhaps some rust on the rotor or pad that is rubbing at times. I'm in disbelief though that the rear brakes would be done at 21,000 miles! My wife is not an aggressive driver by any means. Is it common for brakes to go this early on this car?

I'm going to do the pads this weekend, we have snow coming tonight and they aren't critical yet. I'll check the fronts then too, I usually put in two sets of fronts to one rear on other cars.

Make sure those sliders/ pins move freely. We have issues up here with the pads seizing on the sliders.salt/ rust etc. use some brake grease for that purpose. When you pull that ass. off i bet you'll find that pad stuck.

[towman]

the newer hondas with rear discs eat rear brake pads, have about a dozen customers with them and the highest mileage one iom have seen has been 28 thousand miles, i usualy put a ceramic in and they are getting into the mid 30s with them, you will probably get about 35 thousand out of the fronts and if you are lucky about 30 thousand out of the original tires, the rear calipers turn back in real easy, if you don't have the special tool a big screwdriver will fit in the slot and turn them in

[Pelican]

Thanks guys, I'll check the sliders when I do the pads, I think they're ok but I'll lube them good.

You mention the calipers screw in, I assume you mean the piston? I usually use a C-clamp to press them in on other vehicles, will this work here or must they be turned?

[EIB]

Make sure those sliders/ pins move freely. We have issues up here with the pads seizing on the sliders.salt/ rust etc. use some brake grease for that purpose. When you pull that ass. off i bet you'll find that pad stuck.

90% of the time that's the problem. Rust builds up on the pad ends and causes them to stick in the pad holder. It's rare that the sliders are stuck. When you put the new pads in use some anti seize on the pads ends.

[sonjaab]

Your finding out first hand "hunda quality" that the import mavens
try to sweep under the rug !

My vending company has 3 honda fits they use for their route
collection work. They did use GM Astro vans that went out of
production and the full size GMs were too thirsty for route work!
They are soldering on with several 250k+ mile Astros also that
require little more than gas!

Anyhoo at a year old and 30k miles these things EAT pads/rotors/calipers/
tires twice each already! And did I mention $pendy to repair?
Larry the owner rues the day he bought these things!

He has tried toyoyo/dodge minivans as well as Escort wagons
with no luck also.

[PUSHIN'4U]

hey now... i got a 05 honda accord 2 dr coupe and its got 52,000 miles and im just now changing the brakes and rotors all the way around!! so not sure why urz is that bad.

[biododge1]

hey now... i got a 05 honda accord 2 dr coupe and its got 52,000 miles and im just now changing the brakes and rotors all the way around!! so not sure why urz is that bad.

It's got to be the design per model--my odyssey van has 50k-just did the fronts. My insight rears (drum) are still original--230k!! three sets of pads for the front.

[Pickering Snow]

Thanks guys, I'll check the sliders when I do the pads, I think they're ok but I'll lube them good.

You mention the calipers screw in, I assume you mean the piston? I usually use a C-clamp to press them in on other vehicles, will this work here or must they be turned?

No Steve the piston turns in on a thread screw its not the typical push type, most vechs domestic and import use this style rear caliper. Any part store sells a really cheap cube tool that allows mulity fix apps and fixs on a 3/8 extention.

Has for rear pad wear like mike said again not just Honda but any cars and trucks today are running full floating calipers and frames and i would say on any given day we do brakes 3 out of 5 will require freeing up stuck slides and pins.

[chillywilly]

My 07 accord just hit 29k. I guess that squealing I just started hearing is the indicators after all. THAT SUCKS!