[cutepoison]

My 2014 Mazda6 rear calipers (both) appear to be badly rusted. Front look A fine, no rust.
Recently my parking brake stopped working and both my mechanic and dealership told me to replace both rear calipers.

Has anyone done this and is it a common failure point? I found a recall for US but nothing for Canada, I put my VIN and no recall shows up. If I decide to get it done out of pocket should I go for new calipers from dealership (approx $165 each) or remanufactured ones available on rockauto for $65 each after subtracting core charge?

 

[TalonTsi90]

Reman is fine. Pics though, cause there has to be a shit ton of rust for them to be ineffective.

 

[cutepoison]

Hard to grab pics now cz I have winter steelies on. Brakes are fine, its the parking brake that completely stopped working. One side failed last year, 2nd one failed this year. No leaks or anything. Visually the front ones looks silver, rear ones are dark brown all rust color.

 

[tickerguy]

There is a seal at the shaft for the parking brake where it goes through into the caliper and that seal was questionable (read: crap) on a number of these, which is why Mazda recalled them in the US. They either put a secondary boot over it IF inspection said there had been no leak, or replaced the caliper (and added the secondary boot) if there was.

They did mine and changed one of the two. Both were still working at that point.

I bet you could take the caliper apart, free it up, hit with some crocus cloth to get the corrosion off it and then add the boot if you don't want to buy a reman caliper. They're not very hard to take apart and fix up if you want to rather than spend the money on a reman. It all depends on how much your time is worth to you.

 

[Byakuya]

Dang, no recall in Canada? It might be worth calling up Mazda corporate and asking them. I had my rears replaced a few years ago via the recall and they're still looking brand new.

 

[Raymond]

Makes me want to have a look at mine now.... The handbrake isn't the best even though it has been checked at the last service last week. Hopefully just an adjustment on mine is there's no outstanding recall on mine (UK)

 

[tickerguy]

Never had trouble with the handbrake on mine; holds good, works good, releases fully. I saw no particular reason for them to replace the caliper on mine when they got it in as I had no operational issues at all but they apparently saw evidence that water had gotten under the seal and did so anyway. The adjustment is under the console and easy to get to, but if the levers are binding at the caliper that's the exact problem they issued the recall over.

 

[Raymond]

My intend was to adjust the handbrake when I was going to install the QI pad as the middle console needs to come out. The handbrake holds, just need to pull the lever quite far up. This'll be sorted when the weather picks upas it's frrreeezing atm

 

[xbikeprof]

Stuff like that happens when coldest..., brrr.!
Up in Colorado at 11K elevation, went into store, came out and calipers would not release. 😩.

So hacksaw and ingenuity, great tools to have. 👍.

ROCKAUTO
Buybrakes
Centric
Partsgeek
or local shop will have calipers, cables, etc

BUT above, that's my order of acquisition FYI...

 

[tickerguy]

Hint: If you live where it gets cold and your cables are getting stiff on the handbrake change them before the freezing weather shows up

 

[cutepoison]

Replaced both rear calipers with re-manufactured ones. Cost canadian $450 for calipers (Got $200 back for returning core) and paid $200 for installation in Canada. This is canadian rust on a 2014 Mazda6

Here are the old calipers. Left one you can clearly see handbrake lever is rust weld in the locked position

Right one handbrake lever is not rusted solid but the boot is torn and I doubt it was working properly

 

[Benedict]

In Great Britain we had a recall on the rear brakes, it was down to the small gaitor on the slider pins, seems it was too short alowing water onto the pins. My SM just changed all the rear calipers rather than mess with putting a washer in which was the quick fix from Mazda.
A handbrake shouldn't seize or rust up, its in use all the time, every stop junction and traffic lights at red, parking etc.