Brake pad wear

Re: Brake pad wear

feeds@yuku.com (goreds2) — Tue, 23 Dec 2008 20:48:04 GMT

I have over 188,000 miles on my truck and am only on my third set of pads. I will probably change them around 210, 000 miles. It does depend how you brake at a stop. I slow down well before a stop when possible and do not "stop on a dime".

Re: Brake pad wear

feeds@yuku.com (irkingu2) — Fri, 14 Nov 2008 15:17:48 GMT

Might want to check this thread too.

http://tunfs.yuku.com/topic/867

Re: Brake pad wear

feeds@yuku.com (y2klowrider) — Thu, 13 Nov 2008 18:21:12 GMT

I just checked mine at 33600 miles and I have plenty left. My miles are stop and go city driving with a lot of downhills too. But of course, checking your brakes regularly keeps the doctor away.

Re: Brake pad wear

feeds@yuku.com (Sierrareno) — Mon, 03 Nov 2008 17:56:16 GMT

Had mine checked at 45K miles due to a noise. All was well with about 50% wear still left. That was with mainly city miles, but some long distance intervals. Hope that helps.

Re: Brake pad wear

feeds@yuku.com (sawdoc57) — Sun, 02 Nov 2008 14:25:48 GMT

All of your reply' s are helpful, Thanks so much!

Re: Brake pad wear

feeds@yuku.com (irkingu2) — Sun, 02 Nov 2008 09:23:09 GMT

The length of time varies by Driver. You can make an educated guess though, all you have to do is take off your wheels so you can get to the caliper and measure the distance between the pad's backing plate and the surface of the rotor. Since we know what the thickness of the pad was when we started, we can do some cross multiplication, that will show us when are brakes will be completely consumed, using I did this a while back and found that for my truck I was looking at 98K miles for the...

Re: Brake pad wear

feeds@yuku.com (drumbob) — Sun, 02 Nov 2008 01:23:22 GMT

Hey Gene, I just turned 47,000 and all seems fine. I'd say about half is hwy miles.

Re: Brake pad wear

feeds@yuku.com (Gold NH 4 x 4) — Sat, 01 Nov 2008 21:52:39 GMT

I only got < 15K on my 05 pads....due to defective caliper casting...causing binding.

Since grinding of casting and replacement of pads...no noticible wear. Currently at 23,000 .

Re: Brake pad wear

feeds@yuku.com (reverendbiker) — Sat, 01 Nov 2008 09:29:06 GMT

Depends on how you drive it. I checked mine at 54,000 miles and had plenty of pad left (maybe 20k or more). Most of my driving is highway miles and I'm not hard on the brakes. City stop-and-go driving or aggressive driving will eat 'em up much quicker.

Brake pad wear

feeds@yuku.com (sawdoc57) — Sat, 01 Nov 2008 00:51:29 GMT

I have an 05 Frontier with 28000 miles on it. Does anyone know how long the brake pads last?