Disc Brake Caliper Slide Pin Grease(Lube)? Gen2

Yeah Honda's better in that regard, excerpts from older PIlot Shop Manual, attached:

 

Right, the service manual doesn't really give the numbers or the names, but the descriptions.

The numbers are given in various TSBs and clarifying docs.

The Toyota specs people did, I presume.

 

Again, I've got a tube of something, and a tub of something, that I've used for decades, on various makes of cars, for the caliper pins and pad/shim/caliper interfaces respectively. They'll likely outlive me, and haven't caused problems or exhibited incompatibility yet. Both products are cheap and readily available in North America.

 

Nothing wrong with any of that, as long as people who come to PriusChat to find out what the manufacturer recommendations are do in fact find out what the manufacturer recommendations are.

 

Proprietary information is not useful for consumers trying to decide which product to buy.

While shopping for tires recently I was unable to find rolling resistance numbers from manufacturers for any of the tires I was considering. Presumably they have information on that, but they don't share it. In this regard citizens of the EU are in a much better place than those of the us in the US because there is a mandatory tire testing program there, and a web site where one can look up values. (As it turned out, the General Altimax R45's I ended up purchasing seem to give pretty much the same mpg as the Ecopia EP422s they replaced. That was a relief - and mostly luck. They could easily have been much worse and I had no way of knowing that.)

 

Sure, but then I don't think "let me second-guess all the informed choices that were made by the people who designed and built this machine" is the kind of "decide which product to buy" that most consumers are engaging in. Seems like it might be hubris in all but a very small and unusual subset of consumers.

 

That’d be for me, if the quest was availability, price and “I have it on hand”.