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Strange rear brake pad wear S70 1998

posted by  Vladimir on  Wed Sep 2 11:22 CST 2009
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Hi. I am changing my rear pads on my '98 S70 N/A and noticing a very strange wear pattern. The inboard pad is definitely worn with only 1.3 mm of material left, the outboard pad's material is at 5 mm! Very similar on both sides, too. The calipers are not frozen as I was able to easily collapse both pistons in each caliper. What is going on? Or is this normal? My car is a manual transmission, so I do not go through brakes so much. In fact, when the car had only 31K miles the rotors got warped and were replaced under warranty along with pads. Now the car has 85K miles and still on the same set of rear pads. No issues with the brakes, they seem to perform great.

Would appreciate others' experience with rear pad wear on this model.

Thanks!

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Vladimir. '98 S70 base, 5-speed manual - his, '93 945 (approaching 210K miles and rolling on...) - hers






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