2012 PiP: Replacing brakes and rotors…real time question.

Interesting brake job for sure My goodness.

 

Toyota USA says nothing on the subject; Toyota Canada has said tri-yearly or 48k kms (~30k miles).

there’s a link in my signature with some info.

 

"Re-calibrating" the parking brake cable is one of those things that's more likely to get done when it isn't needed than it is to ever be needed.

In an extremely old car, or one that has been driven by Sasquatch, it might be needed.

Or, in a very rust-prone area, it might be bound up with rust—which is a different thing, and calls for different measures than "re-calibrating".

 

No.

The reference you're seeing to an adjustment above the brake pedal is an adjustment of the cable length. Sometimes you'll see similar references to nuts at the cable equalizer under the center console box.

If the cable length was set right at the factory, and nothing has changed it, the cable length is still right. Those adjustments should have "stop! if you're here you're probably on the wrong track" labels.

In a very old car, or one where Sasquatch has been stomping down on that pedal every day for years, the cable might have stretched enough for an adjustment to be needed. Out of all the people you may encounter talking about that being something their car needs, every now and then, under unusual circumstances, one might be right.

The references you've seen to a star wheel to dial up or down pertain to the drum-style brakes on Gen 1 or 2 or Prius v, but not to the disc brakes on your 2010.

Your parking brakes adjust themselves, by way of the adjusting bolt and sleeve nut you saw up in post #4 in this thread. That's why you needed to spin those pistons in, not just push them in. When you did that, you were "re-adjusting" the parking brakes, back to the new rotors/new pads condition. As soon as you then used the regular brakes, those parking brake sleeve nuts adjusted themselves.

No tutorials are given on how to fuss with those, because you don't need to.

 

Yeah now imagine having drum brakes running inside of the disc like some 85 supers that was a lot of fun The drum brakes were just for parking The rear discs were for when the car was operating. So the parking brake drums lasted generally the life of the car because no one ever used the parking brake

 

You've just described a Prius v.

 

That's the wagon looking thingy I guess Prius v?

 

That's the one.