How many miles do you get out of your car brakes?

[Andrew Joiner]

I drive a 2006 Toyota mostly on the highway. It has 90,000 miles with the original brakes. I don't hear any squealing on the brakes and they work fine.
What do you think?

[Patty Hann]

I drive a 2006 Toyota mostly on the highway. It has 90,000 miles with the original brakes. I don't hear any squealing on the brakes and they work fine.
What do you think?

Have always owned Toyotas. Current one is 2006 Corolla. Brake job done at around 115,000 or so.
That seems to be typical with the way I drive, it's always a little past 100K.
I do not brake hard, generally "coasting" up to a stoplight/sign. Also I maintain "close" to the requisite car lengths when behind another car, especially on freeways.

[Ken Fitzgerald]

We live in a town stair stepped up the side of a couple hills. It's 800' down to the main part of town. Most of my driving is in the mountains. I am at 87,000 miles + on my Honda Pilot and on the original set of brake pads and rotors. My wife rides the brakes on her car more than I do on mine and she doesn't get as good mileage between brake jobs.

[Ronald Blue]

I had to put rear brakes on my 2014 Silverado last summer at about 99,000. Fronts are still original at 103,000. I sometimes pull a two axle car trailer. Less than 5,000 miles of the total though.

[Bill Dufour]

Rears last about double the fronts. Not sure if that is true with four wheel disks.
Bill D

[mike stenson]

Rears last about double the fronts. Not sure if that is true with four wheel disks.
Bill D

Depends on the bias. My GTi wore rears much faster than front, by design.

I think the OP isn't hitting the brakes as hard, or heating them up, the way I tend to

[Cameron Wood]

I don't know, but sometimes I check the number of times braking- me vs car in front.

Regularly 1:10, often 1:20, more on mountain or curvy roads.

Recently on a ~6 mile stretch, 1:60!

[George Yetka]

Wifes Hyundai sonota gets rotors and pads more than a f1 car. Every 20-30k sometimes under 20. The rotors are so poorly made that if you depress pedal more than say 75% the rotors will warp and eat the pads in the next few thousand miles. My GMC trucks are 90-100k.

[Jim Becker]

Many current generation vehicles are using "stickier" pads which often require replacement much sooner than folks are used to. That's the case with what I drive. (They also require a more careful break-in period to avoid uneven deposits on the rotors which makes it seem like there is a "warp", but there is not. When I sold the MY12 Grand Cherokee Overland Summit in 2019, it had 113K miles on it. The front brakes were original. The rears would likely have made it that far, too, but a broken caliper bolt at about 88K miles require replacement of the rears. I generally get good brake life as I don't actually use them as much as some folks do...I coast up to lights and rarely do any hard braking. So unlike some folks who have had repeated issues with the "sticky" brakes on the Ascent I drive these days, mine keep going. The MY19 had 36K on when I traded it last year and the brakes were just fine. I'm expecting the same with the MY23, again, because of how I drive.

[Frank Pratt]

I got over 200,000Km on the brakes in both my Accord and full size pickup. Both have 4 wheel discs and the rears wore out before the fronts.

[Alan Rutherford]

Seems to depend on whom you ask. I got new tires from a tire shop a while back and they said I needed brakes, which they'd be happy to take care of at the same time. I declined.

A few months later I took the car to the dealer (Toyota) for a software-update recall and they said I needed brakes, which they'd be happy to take care of at the same time. Nope.

A few weeks after that I took it to an honest brake shop and they said "So why did you think you need brakes?" I could have gone longer but I replaced them anyway.

[George Yetka]

Many current generation vehicles are using "stickier" pads which often require replacement much sooner than folks are used to. That's the case with what I drive. (They also require a more careful break-in period to avoid uneven deposits on the rotors which makes it seem like there is a "warp", but there is not. When I sold the MY12 Grand Cherokee Overland Summit in 2019, it had 113K miles on it. The front brakes were original. The rears would likely have made it that far, too, but a broken caliper bolt at about 88K miles require replacement of the rears. I generally get good brake life as I don't actually use them as much as some folks do...I coast up to lights and rarely do any hard braking. So unlike some folks who have had repeated issues with the "sticky" brakes on the Ascent I drive these days, mine keep going. The MY19 had 36K on when I traded it last year and the brakes were just fine. I'm expecting the same with the MY23, again, because of how I drive.

Hers definitely warp. To the point they are uncuttable

[Tom M King]

200k for me on the dually.
20k on my wife’s car.

Either one a 20 minute job for me.

[Jerome Stanek]

This depends on where you drive. If you drive all the time in a city your brakes are not going to last as long as if you drive cross country. I could get over 100,000 on my truck when I was working and that is pulling a trailer. But I was putting on 500 mile a week but driving 400 miles on the interstates and may be 100 once I got to the job site.

[Bruce Wrenn]

Wife's car, not many. Same with tires. My truck and van, 2-3 hundred thousand miles. On my old Honda Civic, I had a couple tires that went over 100K miles.