[TheBrightSide]

I’ve found some cheap parking brake shoes for the rear brake (rotors?), and I’m wondering how the replacement process is; or whether I should change mine out at all?

My parking brake is still fully fine, not stretched; and all my brake rotors are still the OEM ones that came on the earlier 2010 models (not sure what AC Delco or GM part numbers they are). The parking brake shoes are a separate part of the rear brakes that can still remain intact, even after the rear rotors are removed?

If I don’t absolutely need to replace the rear parking brake shoes, then I won’t. I’m not even planning to replace my rotors until after my next set of brake pads wears out. Does anyone know how thick rotors should generally be? I know mine have gone through at least 2-3 sets of brake pads over the years before I got the car.

I would assume that the parking brake shoes would last as long as the rear rotors; if not, LONGER than them, since they’re only used while parking (minus using it outside of that lol). Would cheaping out on parking brake shoes be a bad thing? I typically stick to solid brake rotors and semi-metallic brake pads for the 5th gen Camaro SS, so…. Only other thing I usually run occasionally, is ceramic or hybrid material brake pads.