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Pro tip: Check your brake caliper slide pins before it costs you
At a shop in Denver last Thursday I had a customer's 2015 Honda come in with a dragging brake. Pulled the caliper off and both slide pins were completely dry and one was seized solid. Took me 20 minutes to clean and regrease them instead of selling the guy a whole new caliper assembly for $200. Anyone else find these pins bone dry from the factory a lot?
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uma_webb2824d ago
Man, it's wild how often that happens. I had a Subaru in last month with the same problem, the pins were so dry they almost welded themselves to the bracket. Spent half an hour cleaning them up and it beat the hell out of selling a full caliper job.
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Read something the other day from a mechanic who said Honda has been skimping on grease from the factory for years (maybe to save a buck). Apparently it's not just the slide pins either, some newer models have dry caliper brackets too. That 20 minute fix saved the guy a decent chunk of change, plus he didn't have to bleed the whole system. Always worth checking those pins before jumping to a full caliper replacement.
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