Hi everyone, I recently got a first gen 2009 mazda 3, and I just did some routine maintenance on it. One of the items was rear pads and rotors as the pads were down to min thickness and unevenly worn. Left side install was fine, no issues at all, but the right side... well, as you can see from the attached picture, the pad is making contact with only the outer half of the rotor. Both inner and outer pad are doing the same thing on the rotor. I thought at first it's maybe seized pins, as they were sliding very hard, so I got new bushings and pins, but that didn't fix the issue... the caliper itself was also not moving the greatest, so I opted for a new raybestos element caliper and bracket from rockauto. Well, when I got the caliper, the bracket was the wrong size (no idea how they managed to box the wrong bracket with the correct caliper, see pics), so I had to reuse the old bracket. I cleaned up the points where the pads sits nicely with a wire brush, changed the caliper, and flexible brake hose, and did a proper flush, and still the same story... i'm quite lost, everything on the right rear is new (except the bracket), so what else could it be? I wish I had a new bracket, but even with that I wonder if it would've made a difference
Don't know if it makes a difference, but the rotors are bosch quietcast, and pads are wagner thermoquiet
Don't know if it makes a difference, but the rotors are bosch quietcast, and pads are wagner thermoquiet