Rear Brakes: Fact or BS?

[Metal Geezer]

Took the Ranger to the local dealership for shudder in the rear end. I had looked at the rotors and saw 0 wear on the outboard faces but major wear on the inboard faces and thought I had seized calipers.
I was told by the tech that the calipers were ok and it was just normal wear….all Ford trucks’ rear brakes are like that and I could only expect 50k-60k kilometres.
Fact or BS???

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[ctechbob]

Our generation Ranger seems to be having some issues with the rear brakes. Not all trucks have it, but several of us have. Be it crap rotor material or crap pads, lots of us are seeing odd wear and shuddering from them.

I've replaced mine with non-oem parts and everything is normal again.

 

[Jason B]

Part of that can be due to a maladjusted parking brake cable.

 

[TJC]

Our generation Ranger seems to be having some issues with the rear brakes. Not all trucks have it, but several of us have. Be it crap rotor material or crap pads, lots of us are seeing odd wear and shuddering from them.

I've replaced mine with non-oem parts and everything is normal again.

How far did you go? Pads and rotors. or calipers too?

 

[ctechbob]

How far did you go? Pads and rotors. or calipers too?

Just pads and rotors.

Bendix Fleet Metlok front and rear. New rotors on the rear and just pad slapped the front.

Of course, I don't live in the salt belt, so calipers/pins tend to last near forever for me.

This was the inner rotor surface, it isn't wear, and they're not cracks. It is some form of material issue/pad deposit issue. Either way, they're junk and in the recycle bin. You might be able to skim that off, but I didn't want to mess with it.

 

[TJC]

Only the rear rotors showed this pattern? It doesn't look like wear to me. That is strange. Looks like where the pads stopped when sitting.

Looking again it does look like wear. Looks almost like a slotted rotor pattern.

The hits just keep on coming!

 

[dtech]

Brings back memories of my 1990 Taurus sho and the composite rotors Ford used, within 3 months the fronts were badly warped , horrible shaking. Took it the dealer who said it was so bad they didn't want me to drive it away, but of course they wanted to charge me their marked up price to replace with the same crappy rotors. I countered by saying I would sue them , they called ford who authorized replacing the rotors for free, I agreed to pay for .5 hrs of labor. And of course later on one of those self adjusting rear calipers seized and ate up the rotor. The sho was nice, especially the yamaha engine but the quality was abysmal. It did have the best auto climate control of any vehicle I've owned and it never failed , but the AC did owing to a misthreaded line into compressor, one of several cross threaded bolts I encountered . Quality was job 1 ????

 

[ctechbob]

Only the rear rotors showed this pattern? It doesn't look like wear to me. That is strange. Looks like where the pads stopped when sitting.

Looking again it does look like wear. Looks almost like a slotted rotor pattern.

The hits just keep on coming!

The pads aren't shaped like that though. They have beveled edges. That was my first thought as well.

 

[RedlandRanger]

Just pads and rotors.

Bendix Fleet Metlok front and rear. New rotors on the rear and just pad slapped the front.

Of course, I don't live in the salt belt, so calipers/pins tend to last near forever for me.

This was the inner rotor surface, it isn't wear, and they're not cracks. It is some form of material issue/pad deposit issue. Either way, they're junk and in the recycle bin. You might be able to skim that off, but I didn't want to mess with it.

This is exactly what my rear rotors looked like - I replaced the pads and rotors with Powerstop ones and the shudder is gone. I didn't touch the fronts - they still have lots of pad left and no shudder.

 

[ctechbob]

This is exactly what my rear rotors looked like - I replaced the pads and rotors with Powerstop ones and the shudder is gone. I didn't touch the fronts - they still have lots of pad left and no shudder.

I initially did just my rears with a set of Bosch Quietcasts. They were so much more aggressive than the MC fronts I found that I was overheating the rear brakes. That's when I decided to stop screwing around and just use the same pad material on all 4 corners since it was causing issues towing the camper.

 

[RedlandRanger]

I initially did just my rears with a set of Bosch Quietcasts. They were so much more aggressive than the MC fronts I found that I was overheating the rear brakes. That's when I decided to stop screwing around and just use the same pad material on all 4 corners since it was causing issues towing the camper.

I haven't noticed that yet and I don't tow much at all. If it happens, I'll put the same on the front.

 

[Metal Geezer]

Our generation Ranger seems to be having some issues with the rear brakes. Not all trucks have it, but several of us have. Be it crap rotor material or crap pads, lots of us are seeing odd wear and shuddering from them.

I've replaced mine with non-oem parts and everything is normal again.

Good to know. Thanx. ??
I picked up aftermarket pads and rotors on my way home from the dealer. Time will tell.

 

[Rp930]

Just pads and rotors.

Bendix Fleet Metlok front and rear. New rotors on the rear and just pad slapped the front.

Of course, I don't live in the salt belt, so calipers/pins tend to last near forever for me.

This was the inner rotor surface, it isn't wear, and they're not cracks. It is some form of material issue/pad deposit issue. Either way, they're junk and in the recycle bin. You might be able to skim that off, but I didn't want to mess with it.

Look just like mine did Except mine looked like that on both sides at 25k miles. Replaced with Raybestos HD

 

[GARanger]

Just pads and rotors.

Bendix Fleet Metlok front and rear. New rotors on the rear and just pad slapped the front.

Of course, I don't live in the salt belt, so calipers/pins tend to last near forever for me.

This was the inner rotor surface, it isn't wear, and they're not cracks. It is some form of material issue/pad deposit issue. Either way, they're junk and in the recycle bin. You might be able to skim that off, but I didn't want to mess with it.

That wear pattern looks very familiar...unfortunately!

 

[theprinceofsnj]

Guess I'm lucky when it comes to breaks. This is my first with disc rears. No Issues. Almost all my vehicles had front disc. The worst was a 1987 Chevette. I bought it new. (Last car I bought new.) First brake job was at 3 months. Then like clockwork once a year. Traded it in on my last Chevy. 1991 S-10 EL.

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