My experience with rear drum brakes is that they do adjust. I had a
bad experience with the replacing of the rear drums on my '92 Accord,
so I made sure that my '01 Accord has 4 wheel disks.

The pads that only lasted 15K miles could have been poor quality soft
pads.

I prefer to buy my Brake Pads from Auto Parts stores that sell to
mechanics and if they have a choice, I prefer to buy the better
quality.

There is a lot of junk for sale out there.

Changing pads is an easy job but changing Honda drums is a frustrating
job.



On Mon, 17 May 2004 05:10:48 GMT, davetest
<davexnetzerotwo@hooya!.com> wrote:

>On Sat, 15 May 2004 20:13:23 -0700, Charlie S <chasa@rcn.com> wrote:
>
>>Expect to replace the front disks at least twice before having to
>>replace the rear drums. 15K miles is too soon unless you live in San
>>Francisco and are driving up and down steep hills all the time.
>>Were all the 4 pads worn the same? Did you use Drake grease on the
>>Calipers so the inner and outer pads wear evenly?
>>Check your driving habbits.....are you riding the brakes? Also your
>>wife and kids.
>driving habits OK - never had this problem on
>any previous cars.
>
>Do the back brakes on this Honda adjust themselves?
>Perhaps by use of the handbrake?
>Somebody must have an insight on this?
>
>Dave