Rear brake pads need changed 3k miles

[dockleryxk]

Yep, just speculation. Not sure what exactly was happening to cause it to wear so fast.

Bad driving?

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[Car00071]

Bad driving?

I hit my e brake button to help rotate me around each of the 318 curves of the tail of the dragon

 

[dockleryxk]

I hit my e brake button to help rotate me around each of the 318 curves of the tail of the dragon

Well hot damn! That is GOOD driving

 

[Victorofhavoc]

How often are you guys using advanced cruise?

I was using it for a road trip over the weekend and noticed that it uses only the rear brakes at times. The brake lights don't activate when this occurs and it seems like very light pressure. Once it engages harder and the front brakes grab the brake lights come on too.

On track I don't have heat issues with the rear, especially when turning off vsa totally. They run way cooler than the rear brakes on my gti did, and that car is pretty directly comparable. Not even hot enough to where I could argue for a stronger track pad.

 

[StingertimeNC]

Can't remember if I said this already but I have 6 track days on the car and 6,600 miles and running hawk hps 5.0 rear pads, and I have more than 50% of the rear brake pads left. I never do the pedal dance either.

 

[Victorofhavoc]

Can't remember if I said this already but I have 6 track days on the car and 6,600 miles and running hawk hps 5.0 rear pads, and I have more than 50% of the rear brake pads left. I never do the pedal dance either.

6 days or 6 weekends? I usually count a "day" as 4 sessions, but if it's a 45 min session I count it as 2. Do you use the cruise regularly?

I haven't gotten enough track time in the its yet, but I did track religiously for my gti and my z. Gloc and carbotech pads on both of those cars for their specific heat ranges, but I also tested several ebc, ferodo, Porterfield, endless, and many others. The fronts on the gti were good for 48 sessions, and the rears closer to 100 sessions with 5k yearly miles. The z is a racecar so no street miles, but front do 24 sessions and rears do 80.

Your wear would correlate to the gti wear i saw. Does it also compare to your gti?

Hard to compare fronts because the gti fronts are massive pads. They're easily 50% more volume than the its or my z (which are more comparable).

 

[StingertimeNC]

6 days, 4-30 minute sessions per day. We never tracked the GTI so really can't compare. Also, we have the "S" model so just regular brakes. The pads do like slightly longer than the ITS pad though. We've had two sets of pads on the GTI in 66,000 miles. Stock pads, then EBC Redstuff which easily have 50% life left in them.

 

[egxflash]

Dust is equal to or less than OEM pads, with the Paragon P3's.

I'd love a pad with significantly less dust than the OEM pads because the OEMs dust a ton.

I don't track my car - just spirited jaunts around town and the wheels accumulate dust so quickly. I'm just glad the gunmetal color hides it ok.

 

[Victorofhavoc]

I'd love a pad with significantly less dust than the OEM pads because the OEMs dust a ton.

I don't track my car - just spirited jaunts around town and the wheels accumulate dust so quickly. I'm just glad the gunmetal color hides it ok.

Higher end brembo ceramics don't dust as much. Carbotech and gloc street compounds are great as well and don't dust a ton either. Google around for the carbotech 1521 and you'll see a lot of positive reviews for various cars. I love the low compressibility of their pads. It makes for some awesome pedal feel.

 

[Krazydan19]

Can't remember if I said this already but I have 6 track days on the car and 6,600 miles and running hawk hps 5.0 rear pads, and I have more than 50% of the rear brake pads left. I never do the pedal dance either.

How’s the brake dust with those ?

 

[StingertimeNC]

It's not great. About the same as stock. Strangely the Paragon P3's seem better. I love the aggressiveness of a good pad though. I'll be switching the rears to the P3 shortly. Got a scanner thingy so I can put the rear brakes in service mode.

 

[RMA]

Here is a simple idea for everyone to add longenvity of their rear pads and rotors ... what if we simply engage the manual in any gear on a LEVEL ground when parking the ITS without engaging the EPB button ?

 

[Victorofhavoc]

Here is a simple idea for everyone to add longenvity of their rear pads and rotors ... what if we simply engage the manual in any gear on a LEVEL ground when parking the ITS without engaging the EPB button ?

I think epb engagement is just a theory.

You'd have to stop using it for a prolonged period of time to determine if there's positive results.

 

[akoza]

Here is a simple idea for everyone to add longenvity of their rear pads and rotors ... what if we simply engage the manual in any gear on a LEVEL ground when parking the ITS without engaging the EPB button ?

I know people who swear by both ends of this (some who park in gear only with no parking brake, and others who park with parking brake only but no gear).

My 2 cents is this: while parking only in gear probably won't harm your transmission, a transmission is more costly to replace than a set of brakes. Also, it's always safer to use both - in case one fails for some reason (someone knocks the shifter out of gear or the parking brake fails for some reason) you have the other as a backup so the car doesn't roll. A transmission + new brakes is cheaper than a new car.

 

[Frenzal]

And don't forget that parking in gear is only OK on levelled ground.

As soon as there is an incline, your car might move...

I know because I once tried to just leave the car in gear on an incline driveway. Someone knocked at the door at night to let me know that my car was in the middle of the street...

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