Wow!  Makes me wanna run home and check mine!  I'm at a little over 4k miles, bought it with less than 3k... not sure if they are stock or not.  But they aren't making any noise and seem to work ok.  Thanks for the pic!
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  Brake light come on with either brake used

LostArtist wrote on 09/20/09 at 16:56:41:


Sounds as if an inspection of the front brake switch may be in order.

juang wrote on 12/23/09 at 21:57:00:

Here's a question, and I'm not trying to be insulting, but speaking from experience here:  are you positive everything is where it's supposed to be after assembled?  It's real easy for both pads to end up on one side of the rotor, which would have it using the back (metal) of the pad, and either the housing of the caliper, or the plunger of the caliper to put pressure on the rotor.  This would make noise, and create wear where there should be none.  I did this on my first brake job, but luckily noticed it when I was giving it a good going over before torquing it down, and reassebled it correctly.
This is probably not what you did, since I suspect it would make a great deal of noise, but it's my nickel's worth.

Ok.  First of all let me say that no, I didn't put the caliper back in a way where both pads are on one side of the rotor...I know I'm dumb, but I'm not that dumb.  But thanks for all of your concerns.

Here are a couple of pictures of the problem I described above.  As you can see, some of the material in the back of the pads has fallen leaving behind bare metal...I think I've discovered the problem, but first, let me show you the pictures I took.






Now let me tell you about the real problem.  I discovered the caliper was shaking kind of bad.  That's because the caliper is missing a little piece of rubber I took out by accident when I first got it.  I haven't been able to find it.  And to "solve" the problem i've been putting paper or something instead of the rubber thing.  It has never caused a problem before.

Then I remembered the noise problem came after it stopped raining here in L.A.  That probably happened because the paper I put got wet and became loose.  That might have caused the pads to "shake" a little against the piston.  Causing them to loose some material from the back in the long run and wearing off the anti-noise goo sooner than expected.  Now two more questions.

1.  What's the proper name of this rubber thing?
2.  Where can I buy it at?  (I'm fine if I have to buy it on-line)

Here's a picture of the rubber thing I'm talking about.  Its the one with the big red arrow pointing at it.

I'm supprised at the low pad life.....

I'm going on 22,000 miles and counting on a set of ebc pads.  I was under the inpression ebc makes different series for different applactions.

I doin't know what pads I was getting till they got here .  Sloans in murfreeboro had to order them and had them sent to my house.  I think they are slentered steel??? EBC