Thread: Rear Brake Query.

Interestingly the rear brakes on my BMW K1600GT motorcycle also last half the time of the front brakes. On these bikes, you apply the front brakes and the computer applies the rear accordingly based on load, deceleration etc. You can also apply the rear brakes by foot if you need to but whenever I do that they are already at the optimum, so no point. This system has been on my last three bikes and I love it but it does create more wear in the rear brakes with my kind of commuter type riding with little heavy braking. Lots of heavy braking would wear the fronts a lot more and I think it would probably be the same on the D4.

Run Akebono rear pads to get much greater life. Both front and rear replaced at 160,000km. At 208,000km front pads at 7.5mm rears at 9mm. Both front and rear disks are showing less than 1mm of wear since the change. Also brake dust is negligible.
I'm swapping my smaller 2.7 D4 brakes back to the standard larger brakes on my D4 V8 and have them in my workshop at the moment. I'm astounded at how little wear there is using the Akebono pads.
Unfortunately you can't get Akebonos for the larger front brakes used on the SDV6 or V8 only the rears.

You can get a Ceramic based pad from Repco though that fits the fronts

Do QFM do a pad for that backing plate ?
They have a couple of ceramic compounds, the Extreme 4WD pad is a ceramic compound with a bloody high Mu and rated to 800°!

I'm going to be using either that or the standard 4wd pad on the rear of the D2.

Akebono do D2 pads. Muppet has the part numbers.

Yep, thought QFM might have one for the front of the D3/4.
Todd from Delios rates them.

My last D2a went through rears before the fronts,but that could have been a lot of beach work.I remember changing them all at around 80K.

The D4 has about 2mm until the wear indicater on the front,and about 4mm on the rears,until the wear indicater.Lots of dirt roads,but not much beach work.Original pads.
Done around 62K.

If towing reasonably heavy loads,and the brake controller is set up correctly,i would have thought the wear on the vehicles brakes may not increase a lot at all.

Originally Posted by scarry

My last D2a went through rears before the fronts,but that could have been a lot of beach work.I remember changing them all at around 80K.

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Ditto my D2.
The previous owner changed the rears about 25-30,000km ago and the fronts (plus discs) are cactus at 120,000km.
It's lived it's life in and around Alice Springs until now, so lots of dry creek beds/sand too.