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"Funktheduck" (funktheduck) 06/23/2015 at 14:43 • Filed to: None

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My Mazda has solid rear discs and not vented. Found out while fixing my tire after picking up a nail.

SidewaysOnDirt still misses Bowie > Funktheduck 06/23/2015 at 14:47

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Pretty much all rear discs are non-vented.

Twingo Tamer - About to descend into project car hell. > Funktheduck 06/23/2015 at 14:47

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My friend has brakes like that on the front of his car...

Milky > Funktheduck 06/23/2015 at 14:50

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….. how did you not already know that?

Funktheduck > Milky 06/23/2015 at 14:54

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Never looked.

CalzoneGolem > Funktheduck 06/23/2015 at 14:55

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That sure is purdy!

Takuro Spirit > Funktheduck 06/23/2015 at 14:59

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Heh, just made a TIL Mazda related post but yeah, only the CX-9 has vented rear rotors. Because fat.

In the past, RX-7s had vented rotors as well.

Also, where the Mazdaspeed6 got bigger brakes all around, the Mazdaspeed3 had the same pleb brakes as a regular 2.3L Mazda3. Just the fronts got embiggened.

Funktheduck > CalzoneGolem 06/23/2015 at 14:59

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Yeah. I think it's the wire for the TPMS. It's actually a black wire painted pink

Takuro Spirit > SidewaysOnDirt still misses Bowie 06/23/2015 at 14:59

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Some trucks and large SUVs would disagree with you.

Takuro Spirit > Twingo Tamer - About to descend into project car hell. 06/23/2015 at 15:00

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Is it a Festiva?

CalzoneGolem > Funktheduck 06/23/2015 at 15:00

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I think you should paint more of to match it.

SidewaysOnDirt still misses Bowie > Takuro Spirit 06/23/2015 at 15:01

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And some performance cars. That’s why I said “pretty much all” instead of all.

Mattbob > Funktheduck 06/23/2015 at 15:03

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aaand? Is there something out of the ordinary here?

Quattro-luvr, Powered by Datsun & Stinger > Funktheduck 06/23/2015 at 15:05

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Most of my cars have had solid rear discs. My Datsun’s have solid front discs.

norskracer98-ExploringTheOutback > Funktheduck 06/23/2015 at 15:13

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I’ve got rear drums... I’d rather have discs all around...

uofime-2 > Funktheduck 06/23/2015 at 15:15

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LIGHTWEIGHT!

Funktheduck > Takuro Spirit 06/23/2015 at 15:15

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Interesting. I’m not surprised. It’s just something I never thought about so when I took the wheel off and looked it was a little “huh, didn’t know that” moment.

Funktheduck > norskracer98-ExploringTheOutback 06/23/2015 at 15:17

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It's part of why I chose the 3. After fighting the corollas drums one too many times I said never again.

Funktheduck > Mattbob 06/23/2015 at 15:18

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No. It's just something I never thought about

Funktheduck > Quattro-luvr, Powered by Datsun & Stinger 06/23/2015 at 15:19

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Yeah. I figured that was the norm, but I never thought about it until it was right in front of me.

Funktheduck > CalzoneGolem 06/23/2015 at 15:20

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Maybe paint the whole wheel pink.

Funktheduck > Twingo Tamer - About to descend into project car hell. 06/23/2015 at 15:23

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It's kinda weird looking when you're used to seeing vented all the time

norskracer98-ExploringTheOutback > Funktheduck 06/23/2015 at 15:29

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Hopefully whatever I get after my Versa has 4 wheel discs. That’ll be a likely thing too, I hope anyway. Not looking forward to replacing those things at all.

Ash78, voting early and often > Quattro-luvr, Powered by Datsun & Stinger 06/23/2015 at 15:32

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Yeah, most brake biases are heavily towards the front (plus the physics of stopping). Just be glad they’re lighter and cheaper than vented.

Funktheduck > norskracer98-ExploringTheOutback 06/23/2015 at 15:37

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It’s awful. Wear safety glasses/goggles. Those springs can be dangerous.

Instead of the government setting mileage standards they should make drum brakes illegal on new cars

HFV has no HFV. But somehow has 2 motorcycles > Funktheduck 06/23/2015 at 15:37

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At least then you don’t have to worry about it wearing down to the veins and then locking up on the pads. A buddy of mine had that happen in his Cutlass “Supreme”. We were out of town because we both had girlfriends that lived in a two 2 hours away. It happened as we were leaving to go home. We ended up having to stay another night and fixing it the next morning in a friend of a friend’s garage after he towed it there. Thankfully my girlfriend knew some one who you come out an tow us back to town at 3 pm on a Saturday, in the winter, for free lol. That is the only time in my life I’ve ever missed an entire shift of work at any job. It sucked calling my boss like “hey you know how I’m supposed to be at work in 3 hours? Well I’m 2 hours away and I’m stuck here till tomorrow.”

KusabiSensei - Captain of the Toronto Maple Leafs > Funktheduck 06/23/2015 at 15:38

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Cool. My Mini has solid rear rotors. Less rotating mass is a good thing.

norskracer98-ExploringTheOutback > Funktheduck 06/23/2015 at 15:47

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If I even look at my rear wheels I just think “I’m gonna spend an entire day doing those brakes. *shudder*.”

Funktheduck > HFV has no HFV. But somehow has 2 motorcycles 06/23/2015 at 15:54

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I had a pad shear off and the rivets dug into the rotor on my truck. It has solid rotors. They had to be replaced

Funktheduck > norskracer98-ExploringTheOutback 06/23/2015 at 16:05

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Try having to take a couple hours a day over a few days because you have only an hour to hour and a half in sub 40 degrees weather.

Never again

norskracer98-ExploringTheOutback > Funktheduck 06/23/2015 at 16:10

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I know how that feels. I “helped” my dad do brakes in 10* weather this winter.

Never again.

Twingo Tamer - About to descend into project car hell. > Funktheduck 06/23/2015 at 16:10

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Yeah it is.

Twingo Tamer - About to descend into project car hell. > Takuro Spirit 06/23/2015 at 16:11

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Na 1999 Micra 1 litre. Two people can lift the back wheels off the ground and move it around (this is an excellent prank by the way) so it doesnt need a lot of stopping power.

Takuro Spirit > Twingo Tamer - About to descend into project car hell. 06/23/2015 at 16:13

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We used to try to lift the backs of Metros and Festivas from the pit at the quick lube I worked at.

Funktheduck > norskracer98-ExploringTheOutback 06/23/2015 at 16:18

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Yeah. I love working on cars when the weather isn't miserable and when I don't have to (work dd for example).

norskracer98-ExploringTheOutback > Funktheduck 06/23/2015 at 16:22

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I don’t mind doing oil changes because that’s like mos apart!

Funktheduck > norskracer98-ExploringTheOutback 06/23/2015 at 16:34

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Oil changes aren’t bad because you can plan them ahead of time and they’re relatively quick.

It’s the “my water pump just died and I have to fix it in the worst weather possible so I can still work” that I hate.

norskracer98-ExploringTheOutback > Funktheduck 06/23/2015 at 16:47

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Ugh, that’s the worst. Although I, thankfully, haven’t had to deal with that.