Worn out brake pads

[Taildragger]

Wifie say, "it's making a funny noise", Ok Hun, how long has this been going on? "Oh, a couple of weeks." Well, the beater 2008 Explorer rear brake pads lasted 160K miles!

 

[BHopkins]

Wow! You caught those just in time. Do you recall what brand they are? 160k miles is pretty good.

 

[Taildragger]

Factory as far as I can tell!

 

[jhellwig]

My wife doesn’t tell me till the squeal turns into a grind.

 

[B1974]

Got your money's worth out of those.

 

[oldhp]

There's another 2000 miles left. Wasteful..............Very wasteful.

 

[supton]

Eh, I spy a few more miles left, on at least 3 of them. You should buy only 1 pad and get the last bit out of the remainder. To do anything more is to be a spendthrift.

 

[fantastic]

I would highly recommend a real hard look at the disks. When mine went that low, when I was young & didn't know any better, It broke the brake disk caused from access heat & "friction". lol

 

[hemitom]

Sure makes a good case for using bonded pads.

 

[slacktide_bitog]

What did you replace them with?

 

[MalibuRam65]

What did you replace them with?

Motorcraft of course

 

[totegoat]

Good driving pays off!

 

[Escape08]

I thought those have sensors. No Brake pads warning light?

 

[Chris Meutsch]

Those are in good shape for that many miles. The brakes on all four corners of a 2011 Mazda CX-9 I did last year were stopping the car on the backing plates. That was the hardest job I've ever done, in terms of cleanup and beating the living heck out of the rotors to get them all off. Hours of hammering.

 

[bullwinkle]

Imagine the rotors were pretty much gone too! That’s what I call getting every last mile out.

 

[cheesepuffs2]

Good driving pays off!

Is it "good driving" or is it all highway miles?

 

[Snagglefoot]

Perfect timing!

 

[Yah-Tah-Hey]

Looks like they have at least one millimeter+ of wear material left before metal to metal contact. Toyota recommends changing pads at one millimeter.

 

[bullwinkle]

Looks like they have at least one millimeter+ of wear material left before metal to metal contact. Toyota recommends changing pads at one millimeter.

One mm sounds crazy-one long mountain descent, one panic stop, the lining can crack and fall off when it gets that thin. Then metal on metal happens!

 

[RaymondP]

Good catch! How are the rotors?