There's more than one type of calliper fitted so some might be different
I have found that these so called wear indicators only come on one side and I have never had one do anything useful yet The only time in nealry 50 years of driving a light has come on the dash, it was at the same time the unwired side had worn to the metal I suppose they are there to stop people who would drive when the pads are worn out, Ive never relied on them since. One car I bought may years ago had no brake pad material on it at all and looked as if it had been like it for some time. The price was right so I just repalced everything.
Thats the one, but that one would be well past a bin job in my book. Have they not heard of cleaning things up! Its a simple design and easy to change the pads but seems not to work very well for very long. I wouldnt expect the brakes to work well in that sort of condition. Maybe mine are too clean!
Yes what was I thinking anything else is pretty daft and a waste of money doing half the job.
All my pandas brakes have been fit and forget
Sorry Panda Nut, we're all making suggestions and expressing opinions here when you can only effectively do that having actually seen the components in question. I'd have said the discs on our Panda needed changing when I bought it. They were grinding when driven and even when removed from the car looked pretty poor. However I was astonished how well they cleaned up with a smoothish abrasive disc and they are still going strong some 5 years later.
Yup I would say 7 is pretty thin. I usually take the min disc thickness fairly seriously as to avoid reaching the end of the piston travel thinner dics may need new pads earlier so it keeps working. Its interesting that at 7 it was still OK. Just shows there is a considerable safety margin built into these things.
When i did Becky's rears for the last MOT the rear linings were starting to separate from the shoes. The car's a 2010 and I think the shoes were the originals - would have gone on for a while longer too if not for the failing bonding.
Yep should have done them last year, my bad
I have had a few that were delaminating and sometimes at a pretty early age and low milage. I strongly suspect the COSHH Regs have more than a little to do with these things having low and variable quality. Its all well and good having perfectly safe adhesives but if they fail, especially on things like brakes it rather makes amockery of hte rules. A noxios glue can often be used if used carefully, but failed brakes are a somewhat more urgent and acute problem. Panda 100 pads were badly affected.
Bit like the stories of Rolls Royces of many years ago. Car breaks down and has to be towed to the Rolls garage for repair. When collected by the owner, or more likely his chauffeur, the matter of the bill arises but the workshop replies "Bill sir? what bill? Rolls Royce cars don't break down!
When car companies had pride in their cars and not trying to rip the customer off for every extra penny they can get
Man pulls up in a Rolls and gets out, there's a young led stood and says to the man that's a lovely car and see's something on the front seat and asks the man what it was and the man replies it'a tee, what's that for the lad says the man replies you put your balls on there before you drive off. Wow the lad says Rolls Royce think of ever thing don't they.
Rubber brake hose?
No its a good question but the answer is yes. All changed just 10 /11 months back. The N/S is looking good and shiny across the whole face the off side has a 7mm or so rusty edge strip round the out side. Daughters Seat - the rear pads in particular only operate on some of the disc so there is always a rusty edge inside and outside where they dont contact the pads, but at 21 years old its brakes are still doing what is expected and the discs dont rust apart from the non swept area which gets knocked off when I see the car. I have asked for flexi hoses at the front on teh Panda and will reiterate as it is a real possibility that could be some of the issue. I changed the Seat hoses at 15 years as a precaution . After 10 years is probably best practice to chuck them out and this car is now 12. Considering its life on the road in all weathers I suppose it should be expected that things may need changing. We have all started to expect these things to go on forever and they wont always do this.
