I'm sure most answers would be "yes, might as well, got the car up already anyway." But can I eek out a few more thousand miles out of these? I hate to toss stuff prematurely, and I'm a pretty sedate driver.

I'd say there's about 5 to 6mm of material left, the manual lists the limit at 2mm.

 

Yep. Replace.

 

Do you say that because the car is already up, or because this is low wear for a car? This is my first car, I've mostly dealt with bikes, so I don't know what "close to done" a car pad is.

 

Its an easy job on the Evo. Since you have it up now, might as well address (not with auto parts store pads either...).

Lower the pad material that remains quicker the pads heat soak. And if you wear them to the metal plates and those hit the rotor; you'll be looking at rotors too.

Stoptech Street pads are a good DD/sport replacement.

 

Thanks. I already have some Hawks, so I'll just get her done tonight.

What's the best way to push the pistons back without taking the caliper off? I don't want to leverage a screwdriver against the disk. I do have that tool with the long thread, but I don't think it's useful for the Brembos.

 

Close to toasted. Get those Hawks in there Great pads to have.

 

Slight thread jack, But Do the stoptech's have the "Clank" noise when backing up/pulling forward like some afermarket pads do? I'm looking to replace my rears just because of this noise and I've been looking at the stoptech pads.

 

On a purely street driven car about 3mm I would say to replace by. If you regularly drive 'spirited' then I would replace about where your at now.

 

Yea, for a street-only car I'd say there's still plenty of life left...

 

The inside pad had much less life left, so I changed them out.

That got me thinking: what causes that and can you rotate pads on each side to even out the wear?

 

I use the old pad.

 

I use an old wrench that has a rubber coated handle. A 1x2 will work too.

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