Average life of brake pads

You obviously drive like a nun ;-)

You have a good driving style :-)

My estimate for the life of a set of front pads would be 30,000 miles. We had an Espace that would always wear out the discs in that time.

My recollection is that the older pads (asbestos based) lasted much longer but some may say this is just a bad memory ;-)

It's a bit of a "how long is a piece of string" type question.

I had one of the first production cars to feature discs. It had no servo, but stopped OK. However, the pads wore out on 5k miles!

OTOH, they last around 40k miles on my Focus.

Chris

...or a result of asbestos inhalation?

How long is a peice of string? It all depends on where you drive, when you drive and how you drive.

Down to driving style and type of motoring , sedate driving on open roads up to 40K , boy racer round town , stop start 10k

On average I get about 40K miles. It will vary a lot accoeding to car, driver, and average journey.

Hehehe, a nun with points :)

Chris Whelan ( snipped-for-privacy@prejudicentlworld.com) gurgled happily, sounding much like they were saying :

What was it?

Well perhaps if you slowed down more often...

Well yeah it is one of those "How long is a piece of string" type of question. It is no difference to "how many MPG can you do in a particular car" type of questions.

Dont tell me some times your brakes last 1miles and other times it last 1 millions miles? or sometimes you can do 1 miles in a gallon or sometimes it never runs out of fuel?

OP did say "average miles" before the brakes need replacing. There has to be an average miles you can do before you replace your pads/discs/drums.

My front pads last between 30-40k depending on the brand/type/car/model/where/how it was driven.

So whats your average then?

or is it random ranging from zero miles to infinity and therefore cannot say? :D

It was quite a heavy car by the standards of the day. A previous owner had fitted wider (Ford) wheels to it; these were inadequately ventilated. It wasn't unusual for me to get out if it at night and notice the discs glowing...

I've remembered another disc-braked servo-less car I had; it was a 1974 Avenger. Pad life on that was quite reasonable though.

Chris

Was 1725 the year and 1996 the cc?

LOL!

Some days I feel that old...

Chris

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'66, we presume...

Only about a decade after the first production disced cars, then... but still quite early for prosaic British tin, 'tis true.