★★★★★
May 22, 2026
Rusted soon and brake vibration after thousands of miles.
Replaces
Part Details
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TRQ is a trusted brand dedicated to making every repair a success story by combining premium parts with easy installation. Each TRQ part is engineered by a team of automotive experts to meet or exceed OEM standards, delivering enhanced performance and maximum longevity. With rigorous in-house testing, the brand ensures superior fit and function across every product line. TRQ also provides customers with best-in-class, step-by-step installation videos—so you can complete repairs with confidence, whether you're a first-time DIYer or an industry professional.
Product Features
TRQ brake kits are designed to restore your brake system to like-new performance. TRQ brake pads are positive molded, thermal scorched, chamfered, and utilize a multi-layer shim for enhanced performance and service life. TRQ rotors have a non-directional finish that reduces the break-in period for new rotors as well as reducing vibrations throughout the rotor’s lifecycle. All products are fit and road-tested in our Massachusetts R&D facility to ensure we deliver on our promise of Trusted Reliable Quality.
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Hi, I’m Mike from 1A Auto. We’ve been selling auto parts for over 30 years!
In this video, we will be replacing the rear brakes on a 2015 Subaru Forester. If you need these parts or other parts for your vehicle, click the link in the description and head over to 1AAuto.com.
We'll take this wheel off. We're going to put a 19 millimeter socket on our breaker bar. We're going to loosen these lug nuts before we take the vehicle and put it up in the air. So we'll take these lug nuts off. Now, pull the tire off.
Now we'll take these two caliper bolts off. I'm going to use a 14 millimeter wrench. Take these bolts off. Now I'm going to grasp the caliper, twist it back and forth, and I should be able to pull it out, just like that. Then I'm going to take a bungee cord. Install one through one hole. Go around here on the backside above the upper control arm. Then come around the back, and just have that sitting out of the way.
Next I'm going to take these pads out. Use a screwdriver to get underneath here. These ones are kind of stuck in there a little bit. Pry them out. Do a little tap, and then pry out the inboard ones, just like that. All right, now we're going to take this caliper bracket off. We're going to take these two 14 millimeter bolts out. I'm going to use a 14 millimeter socket and a ratchet. Pull that bolt out. I'll take the top bolt out, and slide the bracket off towards the back of the vehicle.
All right, to get the rotor off, I can take a hammer and hit all around here. We actually sell these hammers at 1AAuto.com. But in addition to that, there's these two little holes that are threaded. You can find some bolts that thread into them. This'll help you get it off a little bit. So we'll thread these on, and you can take a ratchet, and just snug these up a little bit. Just a little bit. You don't want to tighten it too much, because it's just going to strip it. So if you do that, that just puts a little pressure on the rotor, to make it come out a little bit.
Then we'll take our hammer, we're going to hit all around here. Tighten these bolts up a little bit more. And the rotor is loose enough to pull it off. All right, so we're going to clean up this caliper bracket. We use a little wire brush. Get in here and get all this corrosion and rust out. A lot of brake dust in here. I'll take a flat blade screwdriver, and we'll pull this pad guide out under here. Pull that off and set that aside.
We'll take our wire brush again, and just get in here. Clean that out, and clean out some of the off the back, but it's generally not too bad. All right, so now we'll put this pad guide back in. Push that down. And we'll do the same for the other side.
Next, we're going to pull out these caliper guide pins. We're going to spray these down with some brake parts cleaner, and wipe them down with a rag. Those are nice and clean. Now we can spray some brake parts cleaner down here. And then we'll take our rag and wipe it down.
Pull that out and drain it out. And then we'll take some caliper grease, and coat the guide pin, and then we'll reinstall the guide pin. And make sure that boot goes all the way around. And do the same for the other side.
All right, so now I'm going to take a wire brush, and we'll clean up the hub area. Get all in here. Just clean up some of the rust. We'll put the rotor on backwards for a second. We're going to take some brake parts cleaner. Clean the backside of the rotor, and we'll wipe it down as a protective coating on the rotors. We want to get that protective coating off. That prevents them from rusting. And we'll flip it over, and do the same to this side. And wipe it off with a rag.
We're going to take this old grommet out of the old rotor, and we're going to transfer it to the new rotor. Stick that in. We'll take our caliper bracket. Line that up on the rotor. It has two bolts. Get those both started. Now we're going to torque these caliper bolts to 48 foot-pounds. We're using a 14 millimeter socket and a torque wrench. You can get this torque wrench at 1AAuto.com.
Now we're going to install the brake pads. We're going to just use a little bit of brake grease on the ends of the brake pads, and a little bit in the middle here. Don't get any on the friction material. Now I'll install that onto the caliper bracket, like that. And do the same for this one as well. That one on the inside. That's good. Now I'll take the bungee cord off the caliper. Flip it over. I'm going to take one of the old brake pads, slide it right there, and I'll take this brake caliper compressor tool, and we'll compress the caliper.
We sell these tools at 1AAuto.com. And we'll compress the caliper, so the piston is going back into the caliper. When the piston is doing this, this is sending brake fluid through the hoses, through the lines, back up to the master cylinder, and into the brake reservoir. And because we did not take off the hose on the caliper, we do not have to bleed the system after we're done.
So now we'll slide our piston over the brake pads. Line that up. Take our caliper bolts. Slide these in here. I'm going to use a small extension for the top one, because the brake hose gets in my way.
Now, throw up the tire. I'll stick the lug nuts on. Now we're going to torque these with a torque wrench in a star pattern, with a 19 millimeter socket and a torque wrench to 89 foot pounds. The reason you want to do it in a star pattern is to get the wheel tightened evenly. Before we take the vehicle and take it for a ride, we're going to want to pump the brake pedal, because what's happening is, there's an air gap between the brake caliper piston and the brake pad. So when we pump the pedal, that's pushing fluid back down to the calipers, and getting rid of that air gap. And once the brake pedal feels good, then you're good to go.
Thanks for watching. Visit us at 1AAuto.com for quality auto parts, fast and free shipping, and the best customer service in the industry.
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Hi, I’m Mike from 1A Auto. We’ve been selling auto parts for over 30 years!
Using a 19 millimeter deep socket and a breaker bar, I'll loosen the lug nuts with the vehicle on the ground. I'll raise and support the vehicle. With the lug nuts loose, I'm going to use the socket and finish removing them. This wheel is nice and loose. I'll take it off and put it aside.
I'm going to take a flat bladed screwdriver and just wedge it in here, and then pull the caliper to the outside. This will compress the piston inside. It'll make it easier to pull it off just like that. You can see the piston. That actually moves really nicely on the slides so I know it's not seized and the piston went in there nice and smooth. This caliper's in good shape.
Now to remove the caliper's slide pin bolts, there's a bottom on and a top one, 14 millimeter. We're going to start with the top on. Spin it out. We'll do the same for the bottom one. We'll take our caliper off, and I'm just going to rest it on top of the suspension arm here. Just going to pop our pads out of the caliper bracket using a flat bladed screwdriver in here. Do the same for the other one.
I'm going to take a mallet here and just kind of wedge it in between them because I'm not reusing these. So those pads are really stuck in there. They should have a little bit more grease on the ends so they slide better. Now to remove the caliper bracket bolts, there's a bottom and a top on. I'm going to start with the top one. These are 14 millimeter. If they're really stiff, you can use a dead blow mallet. Just hit on it. Break them free. I'm going to switch to a ratcheting wrench to make this a little quicker. Do the top one the same way. I'm going to hold the bracket so it doesn't fall. Take the bracket out.
So you should have the parking brake off before you try this to get the rotor off because the parking brake assembly is inside of here with brake shoes and a rust ridge will sometimes build up on the inside, preventing you from just easily pulling this rotor off. I'm going to pop this rubber cap out with a flat bladed screwdriver. That's okay. If it pops inside, that's fine. You'll just get it when we pull the rotor off.
We need to find the adjuster, which is right there at the bottom. There's a star wheel adjuster just below that spring. We're going to turn it and release the tension so that this brake rotor will come off easier. So use a flat bladed screwdriver to push it in towards the car and you'll actually feel this rotor will get looser because it's pulling the brake shoes in away from the inside of the hub, inside of the hat here. I'm going to spray some rust penetrant around the hub here and inside these threaded holes. Just try to break the seal.
The rotor might be rusted to the hub a bit. Let's see if it's going to break free. I'm going to tap it with a dead blow mallet around it. It's a little loose. We're going to take some metric bolts. These are 8 by 1.0 thread pitch. I'm going to thread them in, and I'm going to use them to push the rotor off. I'm just going to use the appropriately sized socket for the bolts. I'll just turn it off.
You can start to see it's pushing it off. You just kind of go evenly back and forth. Sometimes, it's a lot easier than hitting it a bunch of times with a hammer. That's nice and loose now. You can actually pull that right off. Here we go and inside, you can see the parking brake assembly. It just drops a little rubber plug that I pushed inside there. Save that. We're going to reuse it.
Now just pushing in, it goes inside of the car in this adjuster wheel. It's pulling the adjuster in, which in turn, pulls the parking brake shoes in and it releases them from that outer rotor hat. On the inside, you can see where their brake shoes for the parking brake were riding, and then the rust ridge that builds over time and that rust ridge can make it hard to pull this rotor off unless you compress or retract those parking brake shoes in.
I took out the caliper slides by just pulling them in and out. Those are working nicely. They don't need to be cleaned or lubricated. Then reuse the hardware. It's stainless. You're just going to clean it with brake parts cleaner and a wire brush. You do that to the other side.
Now would be a good time to inspect your parking brake hardware. This all looks in good shape. It's not a very old car. Just going to take some brake parts cleaner and spray this down. All right, just going to spray the inside of the brake rotors with brake parts cleaner. Make sure it's nice and clean. I'll install it. I'm going to adjust the parking brake, turn it so I can see that star wheel again. Before, I was going under the spring to loosen it.
Now I'm going to go above the spring just a few turns to bring it out. It's hard to tell how far it's dragging because you're getting the resistance from the differential. So I just want to bring it out a little bit and then afterwards, we're going to go inside the car, pull it out a little bit more and we're going to pull up on the parking brake handle and it will self-adjust the brake shoes out to meet the new rotor. Don't forget. Reinstall that little rubber plug that keeps weather out of there. It just pushes back in.
We're going to put some copper anti-seize on the caliper mounting bolts. I'll install the caliper bracket—get the top one started. Might have to move the bracket around. Get that threaded in. Get the bottom on threaded in. Use the ratcheting wrench and just tighten these down. Get them snug and then we'll do a quarter turn more. Here's out original pad for our vehicle and a brand new one from 1AAuto.com.
So you can see here, this is worn to 6 millimeter and brand new pad has 8 millimeter. It's not really that worn. But we're going to show you how to replace it anyways. Using the same design, the inside pad will have the wear indicator. This is an outside pad. This will work great and fit great in your vehicle.
Just going to give the brake pads a quick clean with some brake parts cleaner. Don't have to soak them. Get rid of any dirty or grease. Take a little caliper grease and we'll put it on the ears. This one will go on the inside. Line it up. Push it in place and the same for the outside pad.
We need to push our piston back into the caliper so it can fit over the new brake pads. Put an old brake pad over it. Put a C-clamp in there and just kind of gently turn it and press the piston into the caliper. That should do it.
Reinstall the caliper and we'll put the slide pin bolts in. Same with the other one. We'll tighten these up just like that. If while you're tightening this, the slide pin bolt starts to spin, you can counterhold it with an adjustable wrench. Just get it situated in there and then tighten it. This one didn't spin on me so I didn't have to do that. We're going to do the same for the bottom one. Just tighten it. Once it gets tight, just stop. You don't want to break them. The copper's moving nicely. I haven't sprayed the face of this brake rotor yet. If you get this caliper on and you forget to do it, no big deal. You can spray it right now as it is. You can just turn it. It's all set.
Put the wheel and tire back on. Hold it up. Get the lug nuts started by hand. You're going to use the socket. Thread these all down. I'm going to lower the vehicle. I'll torque them. I'm going to torque the lug nuts to 89 foot-pounds in a cross pattern.
Now we need to gently pump the brakes to move the pistons out to meet the pads. I'm not going to press it all the way to the floor. Press it about a quarter of the way. Build it up. It'll start to get harder. That's perfect. Now the brake job is done.
At the rear, we want to adjust those parking brake shoes. You're going to hold the button and just pull it up. It'll start to get tighter. We'll see if it latches. A couple more times. It'll start to grab sooner and just do it until you feel it get tighter, lower. That's good there.
Thanks for watching. Visit us at 1AAuto.com for quality auto parts, fast and free shipping, and the best customer service in the industry.
BKA14175
Rusted soon and brake vibration after thousands of miles.
Rotors got rust in months. The pads were worn too fast. The price is the only point for a try.
No problems with installation Parts of seemed to be a good quality. Unfortunately the car was totaled within 1500 miles but everything seemed fine as far as the brakes were concerned
Great price for quality parts!
It works well so far
Great product, good quality!
Perfect fit, easy to install
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New rotors are making a lot of noise
Parts came very well packaged and are performing as expected. No challenges to installation done in 45min with no lift. Will by them again when needed.
