I am replacing the pads on my daughters 2019 LE. I see that there are rear pads listed with spreadfingers and without (base model). I don't want to order the wrong pads is LE the "base" model?
You're looking at Toyota pads? Have you checked with dealership parts department? I do recall The Car Care Nut (mostly Toyota-concentric youtuber, former Toyota Master Tech, with his own shop). saying there were two levels/grades of pads, at least for some applications. A few years back it used to be trivial to look them up on Toyota USA's official parts site, but that changed with a sand-pounding revision they made. Toyota seems a savvy company; to this day I wonder what their motivation was. I don't think they've touched it since. Kinda like PriusChat, lol. I think this is their site, haven't tried it in a while: Genuine Toyota Parts and Accessories: Official Online Store | Autoparts.toyota.com Hmm, that surprisingly went well: Search Toyota Parts and Accessories You might want to get the shim kit too. Not mandatory, depending on how rusty yours have gotten.
I was actually looking at aftermarket pads as I have had great luck with the aftermarket for my other vehicles. I will check with my local dealership.
Some owners that did their own brakes with after market parts liked the way they went on, price and performance. If you've got aftermarket on there now there's little benefit going back to OEM. On the other hand, if there are still OEM components and you get access to the repair manual and you pay close attention to how the OEM components are installed while disassembling, OEM can be well worth the extra cost. OEM are distinctly different from aftermarket and the only real way to tell the diff is by doing both.
Aftermarket are easy to slap on in a hour. OEMs have at least twice as many parts per wheel to get put together, greased and aligned in the correct orientation .. search priuschat post title Brakes the good the bad and the ugly if my posts make sense to you.
Are you talking about the shims? Cripes it’s not hard to sort out what goes where. Bigger shim typically goes on first, then smaller atop. Put a thin layer of anti-seize on inner face of shim before installing works for me. Toyota repair manuals seem to always spec dabs in specific locations but meh.
And which pads get the wear clips, and do those clips go on top or bottom when mounted in the pad bracket. Anti rattle packet. Are ya doin one wheel at a time or all 4 at once. There is a difference, guess it just depends on how many times anyones done either OEM or after-maket as to how easy it is.
Well the pads are not rocket science and the original are maybe only 50% worn with 150K on the clock. SO I just inspected all four and ensured that they were properly lubed and put them back. I will look at that post, FYI links are helpful Brakes - the good the bad the ugly | PriusChat thank you
