Conrad16.5: I have seen personally, my dealers' mechanic do an excellent job on replacing brake parts. I say this because I am a retired engineer who had preformed brake-jobs on my own vehicles and others when I was 30 years younger. Ed
Let's stick to the topic at hand guys.
I noticed that on carfax reports that CX-5's were having rear brakes replaced as much or more often that fronts. I was like what the he(( is going on!Seems like modern cars (Mazdas at least) wear the rears out first. The lil' black boxes using the rear brakes quite a bit for "stability".
Same here on my 2013. It blew my mind. First car I've ever owned that does this.It's been my practical experience (2014 & 2019 CX-5s) that the rears wear almost twice as fast as the fronts.
If that's true, its likely that Mazda originally designed the rear brake sizing so that they roughly lasted as long as the fronts. Then in successive iterations, changed the tuning for other reasons like dynamics, handling, safety, etc that wound up relying more heavily on the rears. But didn't redesign the rear hardware to compensate for the increased use.It's been my practical experience (2014 & 2019 CX-5s) that the rears wear almost twice as fast as the fronts.