Uneven pad wear vertically: Caused by bent caliper, caliper mounting bracket, or severely damaged caliper piston cylinder.

Ummmm, cool, yeah, I found the cause.......... It's better seen in person
but from this angle that front tooth looking part SHOULD be lined up with the one behind it.

VERY VERY lucky that I had a parts car to pillage calipers from for this job (A front one was bad also, during compressing it was leaking fluid, which was cool because he told me his brake light would come on intermittantly and yet I wasn't able to find any fluid leaks during my initial inspection.

My thoughts: The brakes on this car w/bent caliper were done by someone who didn't know what they were doing. The car only has 70K on it, and they were not the factory. The clearly didn't get very **** about cleaning the points where the pads slide, I spent alot of time freeing frozen guide pins, cleaning corrosion from caliper brackets underneath the shims, and what not, than used some bomb secret sauce brake grease, anti squeal, & new and re-finished rotors with oem pads properly bedded in. Needless to say his next brake job shouldn't show any uneven vertical or horizontal wear. Theres alot more to brakes than slapping pads on if you want ito do it right. Sucks because of those damn midas commercials I was leary of charging him more than $125 labor for all the brake work, allthough I also made $90 on calipers, the parts car had rebuilt ones in the rear

Anyways, as to why the drivers rear caliper was bent...... The rotors and pads were pretty glazed over & heat-scorched & there was plenty of cracking & crumbling also, lol. I suspect someone diodn't know that rear calipers on a maxi pad SPIN inwards. (As if I'm one to talk....... )

 

Which car is this off of?

 

that pad looks like my old bobby brown high top fade i used to rock in the late 80's.