Sport vs 1.8 rear pad taper

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07-08-2014, 08:10 PM

k24madness

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Sport vs 1.8 rear pad taper

I am currently running 1.8 calipers on sport rear disks. I noticed a lot of outer pad taper. Should I swap them for sport calipers?

The sport calipers look stiffer having extra reinforcement ribs on the body. Does this solve the pad taper?

Running Colbalt XR3 pads.

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07-08-2014, 10:47 PM

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new calipers helps. also keeping the slider pins lubed helps too.

I think you can get calipers with lifetime warranty at autozone. just replace them every year (or some interval) when you put on new pads/rotors.

07-09-2014, 02:25 PM

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It worked for me, no more pad tapper with sport calipers but less choice for pads... ie no DTC60 for sports rear available but you use Cobalt so I guess you already looked.