I would like to know this as well, the stock pads produced quite a bit of dust and I want to change them to some ceramic pads if possible.

Thanks.

did you use techstream? or did you use a "scan tool" like you mentioned?

thanks for any info

You guys got me curious about this e-brake feature(1st exp with this), love to learn more about it. When in auto-park, do the pistons only locked on the 2 rear ones? Or do all 4 gets locked?
Obviously in the future I'd need new pads so I am wondering if any/most mechanic(non dealership) would have this "scan tool" to retract the pistons and perform the replacement.

something like this.. i am NOT saying the one i linked will work for the RX350. this is meant as an example of what i meant by "scan tool"
you will need to do your own research to find one that will work on the RX 350

Good God! Now I can't do a brake job without a special scan tool?

LOL! I used to do ALL maintenance on my cars, now all I do is tire rotation! Period..

I hear ya Brother!!

i believe there is a way to do it without a scan tool - it involves removing the motor that engages the parking brake. there is a PDF floating around for the NX - i believe its similar and if it is i think it involves replacing some o-rings.

hopefully a DIY.. or someone on youtube has done it =)

NX 300h / NX 200t Rear Brake Service Quick Training Guide PDF

https://media-cf.assets-cdk.com/team...TG_Outline.pdf

Well I got a few years before I'm due. Hopefully, an easier way will come about.

Hey guys. Has there been any updates on how to retract the rear parking brake via the Techstream tool? I've got Techstream and was snooping around looking at the different options and I came across "ABS/VSC/TRAC/EPB" option. Within that, I noticed a Parking Brake SW option set to ON. To release the parking brake, do all I need to do is select this option, then I can push the brake "puck" back into the caliper? If you've used Techstream for rear brake pad replacement, can you enter the steps you used?

I did see this on youtube. Basically the mechanic appears to be disconnecting the EPB lead and jumping across the two leads with 12 volts. This might be my plan B if I can't get the instructions for Techstream.

Lastly, the NXT instructions seen in previous comments have a mechanical option to manually reset the EPB. I think this may be my plan C due to needing new seals for the EPB cover once removed.

thanks for the video.. i have seen this done on other vehicles before and figured it would work on the RX350.. its good to know it does work and someone tried it..
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on a side note... i think the tool the guy in the video was looking for was "C-CLAMP" haha

thanks again

Noob here running into issues changing my rear brakes also(2016 RX350). I've tried turning off the parking brake and I still can't get the piston retracted enough to get the caliper back on once the new pads are in place. There are a million scanner tools on Amazon, both Techstream and not. I tried Carista, but even the Pro version doesn't have this functionality; has anyone out there actually used Techstream to get this to work? I'm looking at this item:


Any advice would be greatly appreciated!