It’s pretty dependent on how gentle you are with them. If you do a lot of highway driving and coast a lot to stay with the pace of traffic, your brake pads will go basically forever. If you have to deal with a lot of traffic lights and stop and go traffic in town, you’ll be doing them pretty frequently.
Pads are pretty easy. I just rebuilt the rear drum brakes on my Civic back in March and that was a proper PITA. So many really strong springs that get hooked in tight places. I mean, it’s only like 2 per wheel, but it felt like 8.
Yeah, I coast and use throttle control almost exclusively. I’ll even coast up to a red light so I don’t have to accelerate as much when it turns green.
Apparently Harbor Freight sells a tool that makes compressing the springs super easy (relatively)
Compressing the springs (actually the pistons) isn’t too difficult. Just use a C-clamp pressing against the old brake pad, and open the cap to the brake fluid reservoir.
It’s pretty dependent on how gentle you are with them. If you do a lot of highway driving and coast a lot to stay with the pace of traffic, your brake pads will go basically forever. If you have to deal with a lot of traffic lights and stop and go traffic in town, you’ll be doing them pretty frequently.
Pads are pretty easy. I just rebuilt the rear drum brakes on my Civic back in March and that was a proper PITA. So many really strong springs that get hooked in tight places. I mean, it’s only like 2 per wheel, but it felt like 8.
Yeah, I coast and use throttle control almost exclusively. I’ll even coast up to a red light so I don’t have to accelerate as much when it turns green.
Apparently Harbor Freight sells a tool that makes compressing the springs super easy (relatively)
Compressing the springs (actually the pistons) isn’t too difficult. Just use a C-clamp pressing against the old brake pad, and open the cap to the brake fluid reservoir.