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    Default How long do rear brakes usually last?

    Hi all,

    My Gen 1 MPS 3 has done nearly 100,000km. The front rotors and pads have been replaced about 10,000km ago but just wondering how long the rear pads and rotors typically last before needing replacement?

    Thanks in advance!

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    Default How long do rear brakes usually last?

    My front disc and pads were done at the 80K mark

    I changed the rear disc and pads too so that they would match my slotted rotors

    The rears were like they were from the factory. Heaps and heap and heaps or pad left
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    Same I did mine all at the same time but my rear ones still got some meat left

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    Quote Originally Posted by slixx View Post
    My front disc and pads were done at the 80K mark

    I changed the rear disc and pads too so that they would match my slotted rotors

    It was like the from the factory. Heaps and heap and heaps or pad left
    What had heaps and heaps of pad left?

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    Rear pads I'm guessing

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    All depends on how you drive your car. amount of KM isn't really a guide.

    I did 100,000km before I replaced my fronts. The discs were warn, but not wan out, the pads were still pretty good. The rears i think were probably good for another 100,000km.
    I drove mostly country roads and didn't need brakes like I would in the city

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    look at the rear pads by taking the wheels off. If it has more than a few millimeters of pad left, it will be fine.

    You will need to measure the thickness for the rear rotors. Not too sure what thickness they need to be changed at

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    Quote Originally Posted by lup15 View Post
    look at the rear pads by taking the wheels off. If it has more than a few millimeters of pad left, it will be fine.

    You will need to measure the thickness for the rear rotors. Not too sure what thickness they need to be changed at
    Do you know the thickness the fronts are meant to be changed?

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    Quote Originally Posted by GibbA View Post
    Rear pads I'm guessing

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    Yes. Hence the name of the topic

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    Quote Originally Posted by GibbA View Post
    Do you know the thickness the fronts are meant to be changed?

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    Ok going off DBA's website, the fronts are 25mm and need to be replaced at 23mm. The rear is 11mm and replaced at 9mm. Thought we had thicker discs on the front....

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    Quote Originally Posted by GibbA View Post
    Do you know the thickness the fronts are meant to be changed?

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    In my case, the front discs were worn before the pads. I still had some front pad left but not much

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    Quote Originally Posted by slixx View Post
    In my case, the front discs were worn before the pads. I still had some front pad left but not much
    aggressive pads?

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    Quote Originally Posted by lup15 View Post
    Ok going off DBA's website, the fronts are 25mm and need to be replaced at 23mm. The rear is 11mm and replaced at 9mm. Thought we had thicker discs on the front....
    Yeah. They aren't that thick and are too thin to be machined. I went with a DBA T3 Slotted rotor, which were cheaper than OEM and can be machined as I was informed

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    Quote Originally Posted by lup15 View Post
    aggressive pads?
    OEM pads. The front discs developed a lip and was informed they were below the acceptable level

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    Quote Originally Posted by slixx View Post
    Yeah. They aren't that thick and are too thin to be machined. I went with a DBA T3 Slotted rotor, which were cheaper than OEM and can be machined as I was informed
    Same thing happened to me.... went got got some T3's too.

    But mine happened at only 50,000km on the clock......mazda weren't budging about it being a wear item...

    But happy with my remsa pads and T3's. damn the T3's are sexy!
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    Go T2's in the rear. Cheaper, look similar, probably easier to get as T3's were on back order last year.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Yeldarb View Post
    Go T2's in the rear. Cheaper, look similar, probably easier to get as T3's were on back order last year.

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    +1 on that.

    T3s up front and T2s down back

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    Quote Originally Posted by slixx View Post
    OEM pads. The front discs developed a lip and was informed they were below the acceptable level
    No measurement on what that unacceptable level was though? Mine have quite a lip on the front, stock rotors im guessing as I'm at 94,000km.

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    Default How long do rear brakes usually last?

    Quote Originally Posted by GibbA View Post
    No measurement on what that unacceptable level was though? Mine have quite a lip on the front, stock rotors im guessing as I'm at 94,000km.

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    Sorry. You'll have to ask that Mazda Tech @Brooksyman. If you have a lip, then I'd say there about done, but that's only what I've been told

    With the Kms you have, I'd say that's about right

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    Yeah what i was thinking. Thanks for tagging Mazda dude.
    Just gonna do front brakes (everything) then do the rears when they need it. No point doing it when there's still meat on the rotors and it kinda offsets cost to which is good..

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