Spies

My car had been stood for a week and we had heavy rain so the discs corroded up pretty good.

The NS front hasn't cleared properly but braking performance appears to be fine, I've braked sharply with my hands off the wheel and it's not pulling, can't detect any grating either, does it look like a low pad?

NineBolts

with those wheels it shouldn't be too difficult to have a look at the pad whilst still in the calliper. How many miles on them?

Spies

Potentially 34k, I have no idea if the previous owner changed them.

Spies

Cant see the pads on the front at all, rears are easily visible tho.

Sod it bought some Pagid pads for £27.85

o O MARK O o

I changed my front pads last week,

for some reason the pads behind the discs had more wear then the ones I could see on the front,
I had to take the calliper off to see this though,

What made me check the pads was I heard a metallic scraping noise from front when I applied the brakes,

this turned out to be a clip that held the pad in place catching the disc as I had no pad left !

If you can hear this scraping then I think you will need new pads,

Hope this helps

loftust

Heat

veehexx

typical wear very few cars i've seen wear evenly, and it's usually the inside pads that wear the quickest.
cant moan about £30 for new pads

martin j

Good price.

GavB

Honda Pads have wear indicators. When you hear scraping/squealing its the wear indicators rubbing on the disc to warn you they are low. If you change to after market pads with no indicator you have to be more aware of the thickness.

If you look closely and use a torch you will be able to see the thickness of the front pad through the spokes. My guess is that when you remove the pads there will be plenty of meat left on them.

Your discs look fine to me - one week standing is nothing. Forum induced worry is my diagnosis!

Spies

Took the pads off, the rear pads of both front wheels appear to be coming away from the metal backing, there was maybe a nearly a cm of pad left but they are very shiny and pitted.

Should the pads slide freely in their holders? They were a right swine to get out.

I've ordered the bits now anyway so I might as well change them when I do the brake fluid.