DE Rear pad wear

01 996 Track Car after my first 3 DE events my rear brake pads need to be replaced while front pads look close to new. Both are Pagid Yellow. Any experience on how many events you are getting out of a set of pads ? Is the much higher wearout rate on rear pads normal ? Thanks

I don't think that this is normal unless the brake bias has been adjusted. That is why the rear pads are smaller as the front brakes do more work. Steve

I run Yellow (Pagid 19) in front and Black (Pagid 14) in the rear. As you probably know, Yellow is the endurance compound. I went thru OEM pads in 6-8 track days, but the Yellow's are lasting much longer. Hard to say how much more they have in them, but I wouldn't be the least surprised if they went 20days. High wear on the rear is not normal. All else being equal, the fronts should wear out more often then rear.

hmmmm....I've seen the same thing this year. This is the first year I've tracked the 996 and my rears wear faster than the fronts. I have a friend with a 996TT who track it too and his do the same thing. Now, it's not as impressive as you describe (nearly worn rears with nearly new fronts) but on my car they do wear faster in the rear.

Wow, that is much different than my 986. The fronts wear twice as fast as the rears on my car.

It's normal. IF you're driving around the track backwards.

I have found my Pagid Orange are wearing at about the same rate F-and-R - I think I got 8 days out of both.

I also see greater wear on my rear pagid oranges than the front, but not as dramatically as you described. About 7-8 days on the rear, a couple more on the front.

if you have PSM and traction control, the rear brakes would be applied when you get into an "oops" situation. this would cause accelerated wear to the rear brakes.

Great point - PSM on track causes accelerated rear brake wear.

As others have said, if your car has PSM ot TC, eating through rear pads is not a good sign that you are doing well on the track. False sense of driver ability. At the rate you are burning through them I would say your instructors are not doing a good job of picking up on what is truly going on. Don't take this as a knock on your skill, ego, pride, or anything related to testosterone. Just an observation from an instructor that has had one to many students burn through brake pads. You can smell them most of the time and if you are listening for it you can hear it happening (clicking of the brakes pulsating in the rear). All you need to do is either (a) turn off your stability control; or (b) work on being more smooth and controlled. Just comes with seat time.

I had it at Pocono and South course is so rough it lights up traction control regularly and that is where I first noticed this. I have it at dealer being checked for rear caliper drag or a brake biase issue. Thanks D

I would have it checked for brake dragging as well. However, a rear bias isn't going to be a diagnosis. These cars already have a front brake bias built in. A rough course would do it as well. The only way to really tell is to run the same way at the same course on the same day and TURN OFF traction control. The thing with TC/PSM is that if you don't know what to look for you have no idea it is intruding and you push the car in a way that you feel is within limit.

LVDell point taken but just as an FYI other than from Rough pavement at Pocono , When Running at Watkins Glenn and Summit it is not coming on. Previous track car was 79SC so I am very used to running without PSM and ABS.

My guess would be track surface then.

you could have also been fat-footing it.... while braking you are, inadvertently, also depressing the gas.