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Closing in on 38,000 miles with my 2023 XL 2.0 AWD and my rear brakes are close enough to end of life that I'd like to replace them now, BEFORE winter. I live in one of the road salt capitals of the World in Buffalo NY. Add city living with no driveway/garage, frequent use of slippery and tow/haul mode, AWD and undersized rear braking equipment for my usage case and I'm not surprised. Boy it must be nice to live where some of you do that can have brakes last, but my world does not allow this.
I therefore am looking for some advice from you folks on both components to choose, AND procedures for dealing with the electronic actuator for the rears. I am not interested in Ford parts as though they were not pitiful, they're less than I hoped for even given my usage case. I am also not buying slotted rotors as prior experience proves the road salt eats them for breakfast. Given the expense of parts from Ford at just shy of $500 for pads and two rotors, I'm willing to pay decent money for aftermarket, but I want the best salt resistance one can find. Some kind of coating of "unobtainium" that will mean they don't turn into rusted/warped piles of dog feces. Alas, there seem to be MANY Geomet coated rotors in today's "paralysis by choice" aftermarket environment. Anyone have experience or opinion with any specific ones that will survive the actual salted ocean I have to drive through all winter long?
Then secondly, actual procedural questions. I've replaced brakes on every vehicle I've owned since 1996, so I'm not a professional mechanic, and I'm not an inexperienced DIY-er, instead residing somewhere in between. My main concerns are the still relatively new to me use of electronic parking brakes and associated service modes and relearn procedures. Heaven forbid we rely on wrenches as I old guy shake my fist at the sky. Having changed rear brakes on the wife's Forester with electronic parking brake, Subaru really locks the service mode functionality behind a bi-directional scan tool which I do not own
but some trickery with use of the "parking brake", a funky star socket set, torque wrench and ingenuity and I was able to get it done without kicking errors. Basically put the parking brake on, remove the e-brake module, check the torque on the strange hex drive shaft, back it WAY off, then do brake job as normal and return the drive shaft to the same torque before re-attaching the motor and it was happy. Would a similar method work with the Maverick, or does Ford offer another way to access a service mode, brake re-learn feature, or some similar that is NOT gatekept behind a bi-directional scan tool? I have tried forum searching, but have yet to massage keywords correctly other than a partially helpful thread from someone suggesting to try my local library for Alldata subscription. I'll keep trying various keyword searches here and seeing if Dr Google can index the site better than the built-in search engine but if anyone has a way to point me to the best/most correct way to deal with the electronic parking brake feature, I'd love to hear it.
Thanks much for reading/helping.
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I therefore am looking for some advice from you folks on both components to choose, AND procedures for dealing with the electronic actuator for the rears. I am not interested in Ford parts as though they were not pitiful, they're less than I hoped for even given my usage case. I am also not buying slotted rotors as prior experience proves the road salt eats them for breakfast. Given the expense of parts from Ford at just shy of $500 for pads and two rotors, I'm willing to pay decent money for aftermarket, but I want the best salt resistance one can find. Some kind of coating of "unobtainium" that will mean they don't turn into rusted/warped piles of dog feces. Alas, there seem to be MANY Geomet coated rotors in today's "paralysis by choice" aftermarket environment. Anyone have experience or opinion with any specific ones that will survive the actual salted ocean I have to drive through all winter long?
Then secondly, actual procedural questions. I've replaced brakes on every vehicle I've owned since 1996, so I'm not a professional mechanic, and I'm not an inexperienced DIY-er, instead residing somewhere in between. My main concerns are the still relatively new to me use of electronic parking brakes and associated service modes and relearn procedures. Heaven forbid we rely on wrenches as I old guy shake my fist at the sky. Having changed rear brakes on the wife's Forester with electronic parking brake, Subaru really locks the service mode functionality behind a bi-directional scan tool which I do not own
but some trickery with use of the "parking brake", a funky star socket set, torque wrench and ingenuity and I was able to get it done without kicking errors. Basically put the parking brake on, remove the e-brake module, check the torque on the strange hex drive shaft, back it WAY off, then do brake job as normal and return the drive shaft to the same torque before re-attaching the motor and it was happy. Would a similar method work with the Maverick, or does Ford offer another way to access a service mode, brake re-learn feature, or some similar that is NOT gatekept behind a bi-directional scan tool? I have tried forum searching, but have yet to massage keywords correctly other than a partially helpful thread from someone suggesting to try my local library for Alldata subscription. I'll keep trying various keyword searches here and seeing if Dr Google can index the site better than the built-in search engine but if anyone has a way to point me to the best/most correct way to deal with the electronic parking brake feature, I'd love to hear it.Thanks much for reading/helping.
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