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Old 12 July 2009, 05:03 PM
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Question Filing Down Brake Pads

How often do you come across pads that need this?

My parents have a 56 plate Honda Civic that I was fitting new pads to yesterday. They were genuine Honda pads but were about 3mm too big! Had to file a good bit off them to get them in and moving freely.
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Old 12 July 2009, 05:18 PM
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Don't worry, hammer was out!! Decided not to try and be too persuasive with it though.
Old 12 July 2009, 05:32 PM
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Parents, brakes, inheritance mmmmmmmmm
Old 12 July 2009, 05:54 PM
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Could do with some extra room about the house for car stuff!
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You did wind/push the pistons back in, didn't you?
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I'm not talking about filing the surface of the pad...
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