Brake Pad Life for Basic City Drivers?
Safety Car
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From: Shenandoah Valley Virginia
Re: Brake Pad Life for Basic City Drivers? (RedC5)
Based on my pad life on the 01 - you should expect to see about 45-50K miles on the front pads and more on the rears. I drove the car agressively and AutoX frequently and my first set of pads was just about used up at 40K miles.
Le Mans Master
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From: South Alabama
Re: Brake Pad Life for Basic City Drivers? (CHJ In Virginia)
Based on my pad life on the 01 - you should expect to see about 45-50K miles on the front pads and more on the rears.
Racer
Joined: Aug 1999
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Re: Brake Pad Life for Basic City Drivers? (RedC5)
72K and they were not to the squeekers yet (close though). This is suburban commute miles but ALOT of back roads too, not Auto-X or track. These are the longest life pads I have had on any car!
Gary
'99 Pewter/Oak Coupe MN6/Z51/etc.
Gary
'99 Pewter/Oak Coupe MN6/Z51/etc.
Racer
Joined: Apr 2001
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From: Plano Texas
Re: Brake Pad Life for Basic City Drivers? (RedC5)
I've got 35K on mine and i'm still on the OEM pads. I purchased the Ceramics about 6 months ago to install but the OEM's are still in descent condition. If they make it to see 40K then I will go ahead nd replace them.
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Drifting
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From: SoCal
Re: Brake Pad Life for Basic City Drivers? (Mark VerMurlen)
Just changed mine last night. 72k miles, 5 trips to the drag strip, 3 autoX's, and lots of enthusiastic driving/racing elsewhere. No track events. The pads were just about dead.
Pro
Joined: Jan 2002
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From: Las Vegas NV
Re: Brake Pad Life for Basic City Drivers? (RedC5)
haha
I found this topic searching for pads.. and I found this interesting.
I have an 02 Z06... with just about 15k on the clock. Its already squeeking. I have not verified the pads yet, but I was searching to see if they are the same part number as the C5 (cause I have an extra set in the garage from my 99). Maybe Im just trippin, and my brakes are fine.
Thanks all.
I found this topic searching for pads.. and I found this interesting.
I have an 02 Z06... with just about 15k on the clock. Its already squeeking. I have not verified the pads yet, but I was searching to see if they are the same part number as the C5 (cause I have an extra set in the garage from my 99). Maybe Im just trippin, and my brakes are fine.
Thanks all.
Burning Brakes
Joined: Nov 2002
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From: Huntington Beach CA
Re: Brake Pad Life for Basic City Drivers? (Travis99C5)
I just replaced both front and rears on my '99 at 48K and there seemed to be quite a bit of life left in the stock pads, but I replaced 'em anyway.
Le Mans Master
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From: Waldorf MD
Re: Brake Pad Life for Basic City Drivers? (RedC5)
I got 41,000 on fronts. Now at 70,000 and think backs may need changing. I bough GM's ceramic pads, will put on all four wheels. I hate the brake dust !
I am hard on brakes, I brake late and hard!
Usually cars shoud get at least twice the mileage on backs as fronts. Large percentage of braking is done with fronts.
[Modified by Oldvetter, 6:56 AM 11/11/2003]
[Modified by Oldvetter, 6:57 AM 11/11/2003]
I am hard on brakes, I brake late and hard!
Usually cars shoud get at least twice the mileage on backs as fronts. Large percentage of braking is done with fronts.
[Modified by Oldvetter, 6:56 AM 11/11/2003]
[Modified by Oldvetter, 6:57 AM 11/11/2003]
Racer
Joined: Sep 2002
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From: Austin Tx
Re: Brake Pad Life for Basic City Drivers? (Oldvetter)
When I drive cars on the street I tend to get 45K-80K miles on a set of pads.
When I drive on the track, I get 5 days or 5 tanks of gas (whichever comes sooner) ~= 600 miles.
When I drive on the track, I get 5 days or 5 tanks of gas (whichever comes sooner) ~= 600 miles.
