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Originally Posted by weederr33
Jesus OP, how hard is life for you?  |
Lonely or bored maybe?
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Originally Posted by GrantedTaken
Clueless idiot.
Go to any parking lot, moron, and look at the calipers of any car.
You will clearly see the brake pads
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Bruh, you really gotta relax.
I can't see the pads on any of the cars in my garage right now. At best, I can potentially look at the bottom of the calipers on my wife's Yaris and deduce the pad thickness by the gap next to the rotor. I
might be able to see the FR-S's if I had my thinner-spoked, slightly larger track wheels on, but I doubt it.
That being said once the wheels are off, the "window" in the caliper is fine for a quick check when I rotate tires (I'm not sure why you can't see it). If it gets to the point that I can't tell from the window, then it's getting close but here's the thing - the brakes on these (and most modern, small) cars last a crazy long time. I still have the original pads on my '13 with 50k miles, and that includes an average of six AutoX a year since new (I do swap out for track pads on track days). My wife's Yaris has 100k+ miles on the original pads, and there's still a ton of life left in them! I bought a new set just b/c I figured it was probably time, and the original pads are still well over half the thickness of the new ones!
That being said, as others have mentioned it's very easy to loosen the bottom bolt and remove the top to swing the caliper out if you want to double-check. If you check them when you rotate your tires at an oil change, they will not go bad in the time between one oil change and the next.