Has anyone had a caliper fail on them? My 2015 has 73k miles and I feel like that's a little premature for a caliper to crap out (front passenger side). I've had vehicles with 200k still on factory calipers. Mine was hanging up and one of the boots was torn. Pretty simple fix, luckily the truck is new enough that the bolts weren't all seized up and everything came apart nicely.

 

My passenger caliper was frozen as well, so I replaced it with a ford rebuilt caliper. I tried lubing up the slider pins, but that didn't help. The only thing i noticed on the rebuilt one is surface rust. The factory caliper is still silver, but the reman browned up pretty quick. I need to paint it at some point. I'm guessing the chemical strip or cleaning they do took off whatever protection it had, so watch yours for surface rust.

The boots were not torn on mine, due to the brake dust and totally lopsided pad wear, I think it was the piston(s)... cheap fix to do a reman.

 

I'm wondering if my driver's side one is hanging up. How did y'all test to verify they're hanging?

 

My 2015 has about the same mileage, but the calipers still seem to be chugging along. I think the rear rotors were factory...but I was still able to grease all of the pins and they seem to be good.

 

I noticed WAY more brake dust on that wheel, so I pulled the wheel to see what the pads looked like....

 

Wow that front pad looks not worn at all. These are what the pads on my driver's side look like. My one pad that is considerably lower seems to have worn evenly at least. I'm leaning towards mine got hung up in the slide, but I'm seeing more people saying they had a caliper hang up. I just washed the truck last week so I'm keeping an eye on the brake dust on the driver wheel (why I started looking in the first place) to see if it builds up fast again now that I pulled the pads, cleaned the slides, and reinstalled the pads. Trying to get an idea of what all needs to be replaced before I replace anything.

 

Yeah I know the pads dont wear evenly, but my thinking was that waht you see above is abnormal. I checked recently after the caliper swap, and its wearing normally. Those pads above had 5k miles on them, and I've put 5k more on the new ones and it's good... so I guess it was the caliper!

I did grease the pins and used the proper lube on the pads and guides both times.

 

Same, and it is definitely abnormal. I'm glad yours is fixed now! Had you done the pads before the odd wear? The reason I ask is these pads actually have a proper orientation to them, and if installed backwards it can wear the way yours did. The pad with the ears goes behind the rotor IIRC.

 

They were installed correctly, the pads were marked inside/outside.

 

Gotcha. Just thought I'd ask the question because that's the wear you get when they're installed backwards as well.

I'm curious how many people have had a caliper fail on these newer trucks. I'm at ~48,000 miles on mine, did not expect to have to do brakes this soon.