Thread: uneven rear brake pad wear

Originally Posted by Ryhoon

Well the new pads turned up. Land rover genuine ones. I did one side last night and noticed the on the old pads the chamfer on the pads were diaganol to each other , not next to each other and pointing down. Maybe that was causing them to wear at an angle. The pistons moved freely so that rules out sticking pistons. I'll just have to keep on eye on them and see how they wear in. Thanks for all your help.
Ryan.

Keep us updated - I'm having a similar issue and would appreciate knowing how the new pads go (just ordered some myself).

Originally Posted by relatively normal

A sticking piston sounds expensive and unlikely if it's not binding. Check the calliper sliding bolts (if it has them) they usually get gunned up and stop the whole calliper moving freely.

We had this problem with an Isuzu BigHorn we owned once - in fact, its brakes seemed to suffer from a design fault, as we found the same problem with a replacement caliper we bought from the wreckers.

But the landie calipers are fixed - only the pistons/pads move - so this wouldn't be the problem here.