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Looks like I have quite a while before I need to think about it despite The Speed Bump being exposed to NY & VA salt/brine on roads. Thank you for your reply.

My boyfriends rear caliper seized at around 95,000 miles. My own CRZ (the black one) is at 130,000 miles. All my miles have been in salty NY. My boyfriends CRZ has only been in NY since 60,000 miles (purchased from owner in Kentucky).

The Autozone Duralast brand were like $95 each, and I think the core was $25 each. I had a $50 Autozone gift card ready to go too, and there was a 20% sale on their website.. Really wouldve saved me money but currently they are sold out, even on eBay (I had found them on eBay too).

Instead on eBay I got the NASTA for $126 each. If I wanted to return the core Id get $55 back each. So overall the cost for a remanufactured rear caliper is about $70 each.

I guess I will have to use my Autozone gift card on a downstream O2 sensor for that P0420 check engine light!

Out of curiosity what did the 2 re-manufactured Calipers cost and what was the Core Charge? I agree with your decision to rebuild them yourself and put on the shelf for next time.



How many miles before you needed repair/replacement? The Speed Bump is getting close to 67K miles and I am still on Original brakes all the way around and I am curious when and how much I should budget for the brakes.[\quote]

 

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Why not rebuild all four of yours with parts from Rockauto? Rex is fairly handy and so are you.:smile2:

Another caliper update. I think my rear calipers are still ok. That noise I heard is actually coming from my front driver caliper! It did it again on Sunday. Noise went away when turning (no braking applied) and when braking, and only occurred at lower parking lot speeds. Its partially seized when hot after longer drives. I do recall when I had the RSX Type S calipers installed 3 years ago (I bought them used) one of them was already seized and the shop replaced it. I could try to look it up on the forum to confirm but I am thinking it was the front passenger caliper that is new.

I had only checked how hot the rear calipers were before. Yesterday when the noise occurred again I touched all four and the front driver was hot as hell, like too hot to touch. The rear driver was warmer than the passenger but not alarmingly hot like the front was. Ugh... I was already planning on taking my boyfriends red powder coated RSX Type S calipers (he is doing a different big brake upgrade) but he doesnt have all his parts yet. So now we are rushing to buy his parts because I need the fronts changed out ASAP. I guess its good that this all happened now and not while at the dragon...

 

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Help I can't hit the like button enough times!!!

Also the Tapatalk app works well, though you will want to disable the extra signature it adds or spdbump will message you lol.

Or Defiant! In forum

 

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Sounds like some kind of catastrophic issue occurred on the previous one. If he gave yout he bad one back take a close look at it for corrosion etc. Wasn't that the modified CR-Z you bought? Maybe some of the work that was done to modify it was done sloppy?

$995 later, I’m picking it up tonight. The mechanic after changing the fuse box, drove it for 25 minutes and nothing happened. All CEL codes are gone and cleared. I just need to drive it to get the emissions readiness monitors to “ready” and I can get it inspected!

He bench tested both fuse boxes after removing the old one. Every continuity issue in the old box was not present in the new (used) one I bought. We don’t know what happened to the old fuse box, but it was seriously messed up. With that said, I would like to find another used one to keep handy :lol:

 

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Was it sensor related?