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Originally Posted by ogakor
Thanks for the suggestions. I am religious about maintaining vehicles with a good mechanic. In the case of my FEH, the 70k dealer service last week found all systems "good," including brake fluid, battery cold cranking amps, tire tread depth and tire wear pattern.
Actual brake measurements were:
Left front 7.80
Right front 7.60
Left rear 9.50
Right rear 8.80
The Ford multi-point inspection report card says "good" is "over 5mm or 7/32" (Disc) or Over 2mm or 3/32" (Drum.)"
I still suspect the brake master cyl. sensor, since that was the focus of the previously discussed service bulletin affecting my early production run '05. However, the service shop was unable to find a stored error code related to that issue.
This is my third winter in the FEH at the same Tahoe/coastal locations.
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Have you replaced the rear brakes? If not, that information contradicts the workshop manual and the way my brakes are wearing. Also, there is no drum brakes, all four brakes are disc brakes. There is no cranking with the 12V battery either, so how would they give you a cold cranking amp reading? The standard Escape has a 590 Cold Cranking Amp (CCA) Battery, I guess they just take a reading from the 12V battery load tester. My FEH battery is rated at 500 CCA, but I know nothing about how they test that.
Let me quote section 206-00-2 of the '05 Workshop Manual Vol 2 regarging brake pad wear:
"Since the regenerative braking uses the electric motor to slow the vehicle's front wheels, front brake pad wear is reduced. The rear brake pads, because of the regenerative braking, wear at approximately twice the rate of the front brake pads."
Regen would stop or slow after the battery was full coming down a high elevation, so if you do this often, the front pads could wear faster than normal I would guess. You need to make that call.
It wouldn't hurt to add a little brake fluid past the min. level to rule that out though.
GaryG