Got volunteered into doing a brake job on the nieces 2007 Mazda 3. Are there any cute idiosyncrasies that I will run into with this job or is it just another set of disc brakes?
Not even sure what is on the back assuming it is disc also? If so, is the handbrake a silly set-up like the early Miata that never seemed to work after the first brake job?
Straightforward disc job, but get the right tool for retracting the rear pistons. The ol' needle nose plier route is not real effective. One of these works fine.
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I recall the 1st time I saw one of those boxes :)... was a friend who had been using it and I asked what it was for... guess thats one of those tools that should go in the other thread lol... he called it the Chinese box
Plenty of meat on our front rotors at 65k to have them turned too. Unlike the RAV4 I did last week that had really thin rotors new.
We are at 87k miles on the stock brakes on our 07 3 hatch. The pads are finally getting thin. I had to have them apart a month ago when I had to replace a wheel bearing (wheel was hit by something when car was stopped, it didn't fail). The spring bit was harder than average, but nothing even close to difficult. Pads in front should be a 30 minute job working with hand tools from start to finish, including jacking up the car.
Thanks, I have done a number of front disc brakes, but never this Model.
Now anyone have a good source of on-line brake parts? Mazda Canada usually skins the heck out of people. I have used "buy-brakes" on line before but they seem to stop at 2006 for this model?
Its just a personal choice, but at my shop we generally use OE brake pads on Japanese cars. The compound in the generic pads is quite different, and can be noisy. You could try to find ?Akebono? or other Japanese pads- they are usually a better match than your everyday Wagner or Raybestos parts.
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