Whereas in my 96 FSM the brake procedures specify that, on both the front and back brakes, the wear indicators should be on the outboard pads and oriented down, there doesn't seem to be an explicit orientation given in the 05 FSM.
I have seen shops install these pads with the wear indicators any which way. My one experience letting someone else put pads on my 96 resulted in no noise from the indicators before the pads wore down to zero thickness. Oops. When I replaced pads (and rotors), I found the front indicators on both wheels in the wrong positions.
I just did pads all around on the 05 for the first time, and whoever did the previous job put the pads on seemingly in random orientations (the rears had three out of four pads with indicators - that was weird, usually there are only two). I put all the new indicators outboard and down, just like the 96, but I couldn't find confirmation in the book. Anyone know for sure?
I have seen shops install these pads with the wear indicators any which way. My one experience letting someone else put pads on my 96 resulted in no noise from the indicators before the pads wore down to zero thickness. Oops. When I replaced pads (and rotors), I found the front indicators on both wheels in the wrong positions.
I just did pads all around on the 05 for the first time, and whoever did the previous job put the pads on seemingly in random orientations (the rears had three out of four pads with indicators - that was weird, usually there are only two). I put all the new indicators outboard and down, just like the 96, but I couldn't find confirmation in the book. Anyone know for sure?