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Junwei:
My Latio front disc pads were changed at 80k servicing.  Rear brake shoes checked and found to be still serviceable at 120k.  The rate of wear also depends on type of driving (fast or normal) and braking (hard or normal).

Ying:

--- Quote from: Silver on August 30, 2010, 12:06:02 AM ---
why will the brake pads wear off first for front wheel driven cars?


take a look at this to see how drum brakes work - http://auto.howstuffworks.com/auto-parts/brakes/brake-types/drum-brake1.htm

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not sure why the figure 5 animation rotate the other way round. Maybe the car is reversing.

I saw my used brake shoe during servicing, the piece with emergency mechanicsm wear much less. The original part have white wording printed on the side of the contact surface. I use one the letter "E" as marking. My 5 years old brake pad wear till the middle horizontal line of the letter "E" so I should have about 40% to go. But hei.. It is already 5 years, should I change brake shoe on the 9th year then may scarp the car one year later or should I start using a new brake shoe now till the 10th years? I decide to just change it when asked by autosaver.

Silver:
most likely the diagram depicts the action of the braking system with the vehicle travelling towards the right

appears that the way that the brake cylinder and pistons work which are depicted at the top of the braking system (ie extending and pushing the pads towards the drum) results in higher wear at the "top" end of the pad located towards the front of the vehicle

Ying:

--- Quote from: Silver on August 31, 2010, 11:35:31 AM ---most likely the diagram depicts the action of the braking system with the vehicle travelling towards the right

appears that the way that the brake cylinder and pistons work which are depicted at the top of the braking system (ie extending and pushing the pads towards the drum) results in higher wear at the "top" end of the pad located towards the front of the vehicle

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Yes, wear is more towards the front of the vechicle. If our latio drive (fowards) to the right then the emergency brake part in the diagram should should be on the other half of brake shoe.

pizzaboy:
i noticed AS mechs got this habit of askin ppl to change brake pad/shoe whenever customers send in their cars for major service eg. 40k, 80k

its not as if they are chargin us cheap for the pads/shoes it cost a whoppin 135 bucks for 1 pair man

they tink latio is fairlady or skyline meh need to every 40k ask us to change brake pads as if it worn out dat fast, not so our car can go very fast & then need that kind of stoppin power.

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