Brake Pad Wear Indicator Installation Side

This is on my wife’s 2013 Honda Ridgeline….it is having passenger rear brake heating issues. Did a quick and lazy pad swap to try to narrow down the cause. Figured I would put a tips and tricks video out about the wear indicator. There is a raging debate about what side of the rotor it goes on. Newest battle topic is that it goes on the side of the caliper that has the piston as it would wear faster than the other side without a piston. My rebuttals to that is on my sports cars….with 4 piston calipers, there is still only one tab per side. So my calipers have two pistons on each side yet the pads still only have one wear indicator tab per wheel. That means you still put that tab on the inside for a audio indicator and use your eyes as a visual indicator for the outside.

[victormartin]

I was under the impression that the squeler was supposed to be on the leading edge of the rotor, not the downward or trailing edge. Any thoughts?

[jwcmwaa]

I just bought a set of brake pads and there's a wear indicator on every pad. Have you ever seen anything like that? Should I return them or am I fine?

[josetierra]

Does it matter which side the wear indicator goes on driver side (left) or (right) passenger side?

[wilmarbarrick]

😂 Gee, did you figure that at all by yourself? I guess it doesn't really matter if you change the pads when they're less than half wornblike the one you showed. That pad had at least another 20K left in it under normal driving conditions. Little less stop and go.

[mahershamoon]

I put the one with the tab on the outside not the inner side does that matter? Please reply.