Hi Folks,
First post on here, feels like i'm 15 again fumbling around in the dark. In terms of my story I've bought a 2014 GXL 3.0 Diesel with 96,000km on the clock. Loving the car for fishing, camping and getting the 3 kids around. Best car I have owned, and I have owned a few.
The question - in April 2019 I had a mobile mechanic that is quite prominently advertised on radio, TV and internet come to my place to fit new rear brakes and rotors. Two days ago I pulled up home and my neighbour tells me the cars making a horrid noise, passenger rear wheel.
I called my mechanic who popped over (not the one who installed brakes). He pulled the rear wheel off and said mate the brakes are shot, metal to metal and rotor is warped as result. I told him they are relatively new and he said based on the appearance there is no way they are less than a year old.
Now the original installers came back today and replaced the rear brakes and rotors with new Bendix under their 20,000km warranty. They said that they hadn't seen this before and it could be a caliper issue or stuck piston. They even suggested I take the car to Toyota to get the brakes recalibrated from the unit next to the master cylinder. My current mechanic said he's never heard of this recalibration. I called Toyota they too said this is not something they do on a 2014 Prado.
Soooo... based on the photos and your experience is there a possibility that new brakes were never installed back in April? Do these things look more than 13,000km old and 8 months?
I ask purely because if there is a larger issue at play here outside the pads I need to get it looked at sooner rather than later. I am assuming the mechanic who installed the brakes today would have noticed a seized piston/caliper upon reinstall?
Thanks in advance.
Cheers,
Kirk
Image of Brakes
First post on here, feels like i'm 15 again fumbling around in the dark. In terms of my story I've bought a 2014 GXL 3.0 Diesel with 96,000km on the clock. Loving the car for fishing, camping and getting the 3 kids around. Best car I have owned, and I have owned a few.
The question - in April 2019 I had a mobile mechanic that is quite prominently advertised on radio, TV and internet come to my place to fit new rear brakes and rotors. Two days ago I pulled up home and my neighbour tells me the cars making a horrid noise, passenger rear wheel.
I called my mechanic who popped over (not the one who installed brakes). He pulled the rear wheel off and said mate the brakes are shot, metal to metal and rotor is warped as result. I told him they are relatively new and he said based on the appearance there is no way they are less than a year old.
Now the original installers came back today and replaced the rear brakes and rotors with new Bendix under their 20,000km warranty. They said that they hadn't seen this before and it could be a caliper issue or stuck piston. They even suggested I take the car to Toyota to get the brakes recalibrated from the unit next to the master cylinder. My current mechanic said he's never heard of this recalibration. I called Toyota they too said this is not something they do on a 2014 Prado.
Soooo... based on the photos and your experience is there a possibility that new brakes were never installed back in April? Do these things look more than 13,000km old and 8 months?
I ask purely because if there is a larger issue at play here outside the pads I need to get it looked at sooner rather than later. I am assuming the mechanic who installed the brakes today would have noticed a seized piston/caliper upon reinstall?
Thanks in advance.
Cheers,
Kirk
Image of Brakes
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