How To Know When Its time TO Redo Brakes?

[Sean Price]

94eg YOU've done it again!

except they are now closed.. I will contact them Monday!! but it looks like they are in stock!!

fingers crossed!!

oNe

[94eg!]

lol your funny.

Here is what you do: Type the part number into google search and hit enter. Then in the column on the left you click "shopping". After it brings up that list, click the "relevance" box in the upper right and select "Price: low to high".

Then if you are getting too much of the same result (say every result looks like stockwiseauto.com), you add a space and a minus in the search box after your part number and follow that with the website name (ie: "120.40043 -stockwiseauto"). This will subtract all the stockwiseauto results from the list leaving you with the next cheapest option.

Can you tell I buy a lot of car parts online? Owning 4 cars is like 4 more kids sometimes.

BTW: My name is Sean too.

[Opentoed]

Sean, just read your maintenance nightmare and have to know how the story ends...!

Did you end up getting all the rotors replaced and make it to D/FTW okay? I have a 40K mile service due on my Pilot and was searching for how much I should pay at my stealership, sounds like you had a lot of catching up to do on your '05! At my last oil change the service manager recommended I replace my brake pads at only 41K miles which is a joke since there's about 75% pad depth left. Sometimes you have to outwit your dealer, sometimes they are honest.

Best of luck, hope your '05 is running great for another 100K!
Abe in Michigan

[Sean Price]

Originally Posted by Opentoed

Sean, just read your maintenance nightmare and have to know how the story ends...!

Did you end up getting all the rotors replaced and make it to D/FTW okay? I have a 40K mile service due on my Pilot and was searching for how much I should pay at my stealership, sounds like you had a lot of catching up to do on your '05! At my last oil change the service manager recommended I replace my brake pads at only 41K miles which is a joke since there's about 75% pad depth left. Sometimes you have to outwit your dealer, sometimes they are honest.

Best of luck, hope your '05 is running great for another 100K!
Abe in Michigan

haha, I have been meaning to get back on here and post up a different question but seeing this reminded me of all that..

LONG STORY short, I gave the dealer the $800 or was it $900? for them to do Tom Stromies maintenance..

"$800 Timing belt, water pump, tensioner, serpentine belt, and coolant flush
Do not delay: broken timing belt = broken engine" > see page 1..

Drove to Texas and back, about 4000 miles total on the trip.. Had to 2 mechanics look them over in TX and they gave me the green light but said i should definitely replace them after the trip... So the road trip was a success....

Anyways LONG story short.. new job, new baby(well now a few months old) so brakes never did get get done... EVEN tho I ordered the 4 rotors and the 4 pads and stuff.. Thankfully we dont' really drive the Pilot right now, maybe averages about 20 miles a month if that...

However This has been on the back of my mind and I would really like to get this done ASAP..

So someone helpfully posted a video how to on the changing of rotors and pads.. THAnK YOU!!

IS there a HOW TO or video on BLEEDING the brakes on a Honda Pilot?

I need to change the rotors and pads and bleed them.. right? anything else involved in this job?

I have the 2005 EX-L version... 133,000 miles..


let me know!

THaNKS!!

oNe

[97trophy]

Originally Posted by Sean Price

IS there a HOW TO or video on BLEEDING the brakes on a Honda Pilot?

Eric the car guys had a great video.

How To Replace Your Brake Fluid - EricTheCarGuy - YouTube

How To Replace Your Brake Fluid - EricTheCarGuy - YouTube

[Sean Price]

hmmm, so I wouldn't necessarily have to BLEED the brakes? I can just take out as much as I can from the reservoir and just replace with new stuff and I'm essentially good to go? I was just wondering as per the video... see 3:35

all in all with the one video and the EricCarguy "method" of changing out the fluid it seems easily double.. hmm maybe I can do this myself..


oNe

[94eg!]

No. That is the "lazy mechanic's" method. Something they do when they are not working on their own car. If you don't bleed the brake lines through the calipers, you haven't replaced the fluid. Brake fluid absorbs moisture from around the caliper seals. Once the fluid becomes saturated with moisture inside the cailper, the surrounding metal will begin to corrode. This is one reason peoples calipers seize up.

This is why brake fluid is said to last only 2 to 3 years independent of mileage.

BTW: Eric's recommendation of bleed sequence is wrong in both cases for the Honda pilot. Always go LF, RF, RR, LR. Just follow Honda's recommendation and you won't have trouble. Especially if accidentally get air in the lines.