Hi Guys.

I have a 2012 Dodge Journey Crew V6.
We have over 63,000 kilometers on it approx 37000 miles.
My wife has complained of hearing grinding and thumping noise from the brakes.
I figure its time to change them especially after reading all the complaints.
I normally change my own on all of my cars, but have yet to do the JOURNEYS.

I called around today to get prices on parts around 50$ for the front set of pads and 40$ for the rear and rotors are about 50$ each. The parts guy asked me if we had a 12inch or 13 inch rotor but i had no clue.
I guess ill find out when i take the wheel off

Any suggestions for the brake installation? , i read somewhere you need a special tool to compress the caliper not just a regular C clamp.

A link to a good source would be grat also....

We originally had the 19 inch wheels on the journey , for the winter i have installed 17.

 

Pretty straight forward job. You do need a special tool to compress the rear caliper pistons. They need to be "turned" while pressing. Any parts store will loan you the tool. Both the FWD and AWD version of the 2012 Journey Crew use 12" rotors.

 

Do they all have the same brake marking brf or bre or brg

 

That I could'nt tell you.

 

I called the dealer and he said it was the BRE thus 328mm rear and 330mm front.
I got a couple prices but so far all is abour 450 to 550$ for parts... ouch

 

Just realized that the parts places like canadian tire and parts source were all quoting me rotors based on a 12 inch and not the larger size oem 4779713aa and 4779712aa for the rear and front . Looks like it's going to be a special order. More fun

 

ended up replacing only the rear rotors and pads.
The front ones looked good and had a lot of pad left. The rear driver side had zero pad left and the rotor was in bad shape. The other side needed to be changed but was not as bad. I wonder if it is a bad caliber on the rear driver side. I found it odd that there was so much more wear then the other side.
I used the square box tool to decompress the calipers and it worked ok even though it took some force to keep it on the calipers to catch and turn.

 

Yeah. Don't replace with OEM unless you want replace them again soon.