Rear pads wearing oddly

[BigBoyinMS]

What's odd? They are wearing evenly! Thursday on the way home from work I heard metal to metal so I bought a set of pads so I could change them today. From what I have read here I was expecting one to be to the metal and one to possibly be half worn. When I got them off the outer one had gotten paper thin and one corner had worn to the metal. The inner pad was about the thickness of a postcard. That's as good as I could expect from any pad.

I was impressed with the number of miles I got from them also. According to the PO's service records I got just over 21k on them and I use them all the time for "friction zone" turns.

 

I'm surprised at the front pads also. I checked them and they are about half worn.

[Yammer Dan]

You can improve this a Lot. If you quit using the brakes and drag your feet. Price of Boots is crazy though!!!

[BigBoyinMS]

Hmmm Do ya think I could have just glued boot soles to my worn out pads?

[Eck]

This is a common problem with the rear brake pads on the RSV...

 

After you replace them, just keep your eye on the outside one for wear..

Once the outside pad is about half way wore down, just pull it apart and "swap" them around..put the inside pad on the outside and the outside pad on the inside and you can twice the miles out of a set of rear brake pads before having to replace them again.

[LilBeaver]

I too found that mine wear evenly.

 

I actually will periodically pull mine off and measure them for differences (using a vernier caliper) - just out of curiosity. Any difference for mine has always been within the error of my measurements.