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When to change the front brakes? - 3/3/2008 8:39:14 AM

Lev

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I have 57000 miles on my car and i want to know when I should change the front brakes? It's an 05 s with the 17's, if that makes a difference. I changed my rear brakes at 36000 so those still have awhile. The brakes still feel fine. No grinding or screeching. I just want to know before those things start to happen.

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RE: When to change the front brakes? - 3/3/2008 9:12:10 AM

sstlaure

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I changed both front and rear at 50K just before I sold it.

Why did you replace your rears at 36K? Your fronts should wear out before your rears unless you left the e-brake on. The fronts to a vast majority of the braking in a car (weight transfers to the front end under braking.)

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RE: When to change the front brakes? - 3/3/2008 9:51:49 AM

MikeMzda3

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someone stop me if im wrong...but dont you only change the rotors if theyre too thin to resurface? If you're talking about brake pads...all you have to do is check how thick they are and replace if they're too thin. If you're concerned, take it to a meineke or some brake specialist and let them give you an estimate on pad life - they should put it up on the lift for free.

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RE: When to change the front brakes? - 3/3/2008 5:56:06 PM

sstlaure

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I had planned on running the car into the ground, so I had bought new rotors for the 50K brake job. I like the convenience of just being able to swap the new parts onto the car, then I was going to do the next brake job (assumingly at 100K miles) I would then turn the original rotors and have those ready to be installed as I pulled rotor set #2 off of the car. Typically you can only turn them down once before they get too thin.

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