driving home from work on Monday one of my brake pads fell out. I'm rather glad I drive a manual and it was payweek this week.

Not having the pad, I don't know how worn it was, but going by the other 3, it was probably still 1/3-1/2 there.

Strange. I shall be avoiding hills for a wee while.

I have never heard of that before, I got 4 new pads here!!. Got them to put in my car but never needed it at the time!!

We replaced the pads last week. Found the piston had almost worked it's way out! Quite dramatic.

Hopefully it was a freak thing and shall never happen again...especially not going down a steep hill.

I'm very glad I'm back in CHCH, it could've been a lot messier if it'd happened in Auckland.

Ankhst said:

driving home from work on Monday one of my brake pads fell out. I'm rather glad I drive a manual and it was payweek this week.

Not having the pad, I don't know how worn it was, but going by the other 3, it was probably still 1/3-1/2 there.

Strange. I shall be avoiding hills for a wee while.

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Hi Ankhst,

Thanks for the story! I liked the 'payweek this week' part. I decided to treat my Uno to two new tyres before the WOF, and then found out that I need a new wheel bearing and preferably another tyre. It's an expensive month for my Uno...

I don't see how a brake pad could fall out again, as long as the caliper is mounted correctly with both sliding wedges in place. I have never seen or heard of this problem before - maybe the pad material detached from the backing plate? I don't think you need to avoid hills

Cheers,
-Alex