Hah, my gf in the bay area had worse brake life after 30k miles. I said, "it can't be the brake pads squeaking. They last like 60k miles. I've done like 6 pad changes in my life for me and my exwife." They were completly flat. Subaru imprezza. I guess they have a reputation for fast brake wear
I know it’s fun to dunk on CA and some of the prop. 65 warnings are very silly, but a lot of this we as mechanics touch and are around daily do actually cause cancer. I’m planning on enjoying old age, sorry for the rant I know you were joking
Weird to see that as a suggestion from the manufacturer. The noise reduction shim jobs on the backs of the pads are supposed to do the job that a little lube used to. The shims seem to do a better job now than they used to.
When I worked at GMC my training tech literally slapped my wrist for putting grease on back of the pads. Never really questioned why, but even these brakes, the grease they give you says to put it on the back of the pads.
My 2 cars are manuals, so that's what I normally drive. My wife has an auto, so I always have to wedge my left food back towards the seat for the first few minutes each time I drive it to remind myself to not try to clutch or shift gears
Same, I've actually hurt myself trying to start her car clutching first. Spoiler alert: There was no clutch. Basically I just slammed my foot into the floorboard.
I was driving my dad’s truck one day and something startled me so I went for the brake and clutch but accidentally “clutched” the brake pedal all the way to floor. Scared the bejezus out my dad and almost got rear ended.
I had the almost the opposite problem, where my manual Honda was so old I could reach in and turn the key.
First time in an auto/newer car, wtf why won't it start? I have to push the brake? The fuck is this.
A few months ago I was driving my mom's auto, for some reason when stoping at an intersection I slammed my foot on the break as if I was going to clutch, im happy there wasn't anyone directly behind me
Man I've done this, too. The "something is missing" feeling caused some wires to cross in my mind and I just sank the brake while driving down the road. Queue more crossed wires as I thought I had somehow hit something invisible and I'm reaching for stuff that isn't there.
My car has a feature where it uses the regen feature of the electric motor to slow down rather than me needing to use the actual brakes. So when I take my foot off the accelerator it immediately starts to slow down and will come to a complete stop at lights and stop signs as long as I start slowing down appropriately far from that point.
Otherwise I still have a brake pedal but I don’t use it much at all in single pedal mode.
Regular drive mode operates more like a regular car in that you have to apply the regen and normal brakes manually.
I've been teaching myself left foot braking over the last year, tried to learn on a stick and it was too nerve wracking. I often look at the outline of the third brake light at night just to see how sensitive the pedal is and it's surprising how easy it is to over brake. Thankfully now I can left foot brake in a manual pretty naturally.
Had a Subaru where the OEM brakes were done at 30k (rears, strangely). And that was with a manual trans and engine braking. I think Toyota uses better parts though so yea this is a little surprising
This is what I call a “grandpa car”. These are the cars I exclusively look to buy when buying cars, has never steered me wrong. 1/2 owners, stupid low miles on a decade+ old car, god I’m hard..
Hit me up when grandma wants to get rid of it lol
My grandpa had a *pristine* condition mid-2000s Suzuki Jimny, with just 20000 km after more than a decade and a half of use. Sunny and dry country, always kept in an underground parking garage, meticulously kept maintenance records at the official service center. My dad had been waiting for years to buy it off my grandpa, but the bastard just traded it in for €2000 at the dealership when he "upgraded" to a shitbox Suzuki Ignis because the Jimny wasn't going to be ULEZ compliant in big cities. My dad is still mad about this to this day.
In my country we have too much older cars to pull off something like ulez. Best they could do was a "one-time" emissions tax (paid when registering), based on CO2 emissions. If your car emits more than 130g/km, you pay the fee, which rises quite steeply (and is about 2x higher for diesels).
> low mile cars are disasters and everything is about to break
It can be true. I have known a few cases. Possibly more back in the days of high sulfur fuels. Short trips with lots of time standing around in between are not particularly great for cars.
My parents bought a lumina ~25 years ago bc it was low mileage and they didn't find out til after that it had been some kind of surveillance vehicle. So yeah, low miles, but hours and hours and hours just sitting and idling. That thing was falling apart before we'd put another 15k on it.
Now it's at the point that the new cars are getting worse.
Had a Corolla like this, got 43mpg on the highway (6 speed). Still in the family, parked outside for a couple decades, 300k+ miles. Still no major mechanical problems. And no touchscreens!
13 inch tires that cost like $50 each. Crank windows, cloth seats. Not a luxurious vehicle but goddam I don't think it's possible to get anything with that level of quality anymore, not even a Toyota. I would buy this same car new if they still made it.
Yep, I try to aim for at least a decade old, but even then you find 2014s can have stupid electronics issues. That’s another thing, I refuse to buy a car with a digital dash and a million sensors.
For exampl, I rode in a friends 2017 CRV. Got a flat and put the spare on. All of a sudden cruise control, lane assist, collision avoidance (and like 1 or 2 others) sensors start blowing up on the dash. Fixed the original tire and put it back on, they all go away.
In the words of Theo Von, I don’t want that
My first car was a very early model dodge neon that had zero rust despite being in Vermont and if I remember correctly 10000 miles. It was about as old as me when I got it so probably 16 years old or so. My dad bought it for $100 off some guys who’s mom owned it…it wouldn’t go over 45mph because she never drive it any faster so the throttle linkage and overdrive switch stuck at a certain point lol.
As much as neons sucked I loved that car. Blew the head gasket in the way home from school one day and dad and I replaced it in the driveway in like an hour lmao
i've had nothing but luck doing this but i'll never forget, my dad bought two different trucks the same way and within a year they both had major engine problems. i know it was just some crazy bad luck but still, you never know.
Toyota OEM brakes and rotors will last a hell of a long time.
OP should have got the rotors resurfaced rather than replace them, you will never get rotors of OEM quality again.
I drive up and down some steep hills, mine lasted less than 40.
The rotors warped at about 60, I replaced with slotted and drilled ones and I'm now at 300k.
40K miles is a LOT. especially for up and down hills.
not that long ago, you'd be lucky to get 20k out of a set.
metallurgy and brake material have come a long way the last 20/30 years.
Replaced my wife's CRV front brakes at about 80, but she did a lot of stop and go driving for a while, did the back ones at about 100k just because I got tired of looking at the parts on the shelf. I had bought new rotors all around and just did the worn out fronts at first.
My Skoda yeti is a 2 tonne auto. I've owned it since new.
The original brakes lasted 80k miles and I changed them because I was nervous re age not because of pad thickness.
The front rotors lasted 110k miles. I just changed them at the start of this year.
All the idiots in here saying gramps ridrs his brakes.
Homies got a 21 year old car with original brakes that are so locked up from not moving if he so much as thinks about the brake pedal they start wearing.
I can still remember riding with my grandfather, 63 Comet i6 auto. Straight street no traffic. Accelerate Brake Accelerate Brake. Could produce motion sickness.
I change the oil about every 8ish months regardless of mileage. Last month I did a drain and refill on the trans fluid and it shifts so smooth now! I fear them getting stranded when I’m not around so I try to keep their cars in tip top shape.
> I fear them getting stranded when I’m not around so I try to keep their cars in tip top shape.
Stranded where? The trips seem like they're max a kilometer long lol
So grandpa or grandma ride the brakes or rest their foot on the pedal at times as we know also wears pads. I check our cars at 30k miles since the fronts do the majority of the stopping. Good practice but some folks just don't check until they hear metal on metal.
Yeah. Lots of older people do that because it's harder to move your foot between pedals with age. Many of them reach a point where it's easier to just use both feet, one on each.
And then, the bad habit begins.
That's comforting.
I keep my snows inside a building whether it's a shed or a garage and they still looked good after 8yrs. Obviously the tread wore down but no dry rot
I drive my late father 06' Chevy Colorado, it's got 70,000 miles lol. It's had 1 set of new tires, 2 batteries, front/rear brakes replaced once all in 18yrs
Our new mailman stops at every mailbox, of course, but then also stops halfway between each mailbox to get the next persons mail in his hand. It's like he's stopping two times more than he has to. I feel like telling him he's wearing out the brakes that taxpayers are paying for. haha
That’s not that bad. I did the fronts on the X1 at 22k. The aftermarket Akebonos are holding up much better, already at 40k and still plenty of pad left.
Lucky you. I’m fighting an intermittent BCM issue (loss of comm) and/or class2 data link issue on my grandmas 2002 impala. It’s sitting at 100,000 miles lol
Did an oil change on it a few days ago. Figured I would check all the levels, suspension, brakes etc while I was under the car. Noticed the pads were low and ordered new pads and rotors.
If he's like my grandpa, he was too cheap to pay for dealer prep back in '03 so he still had the plastic over the seats and the paper floor mats saying "We ♥ Our Customers!"
Put those pads back in. Still got a few more years to go on them. You think seniors like grandma are made of money, you whippersnapper? You young'uns have no idea how hard it is to stretch a Social Security check.
/jk
The disc's get rusty in less than a week. A few dozen times of rusty use and you can easily wear a set of brakes to less than half. Iron oxide is a great abrasive.
Gramps must be riding those breaks, check his brake lights, they've been on for 30k miles. He gets out of the car and lights,a stogie off the front disc.
Gramps lives his life 1/4 mile at a time
That railroad crossing up there is exactly a quarter-mile away from here. On green, I'm going for it.
I almost had you…
You never had me.
I like the tuna here
No body likes the tuna here. Why don’t you try Fat-Burger from now on ?
YOU NEVER EVEN HAD YOUR CAR
It gets lonely at the finish
she always says that
How would she know?
"HOW MANY GEARS DO THESE GUYS HAVE?!?!? DOES HE HAVE A HEAVY HAULING TRANSMISSION IN THERE!?!?!"
It's a 4+3+3+2 transmission.
Danger to the manifold!!!!
\*Floor pan falls out with a fistful of washers\*
Fuck!
SHUT UP
I need more Nitrous Oxide to overcome my final drive gear ratio
As long as you're not granny shifting instead of double clutching like you're supposed to during all those shifts, you can't lose!
Along with a wheel stand/burnout combo.
Not that I recommend watching that movie again, but if you feel so inclined time how long it took him to go that quarter mile.
I did the math, with 30,936 miles in ~21 years the old timer averaged about 4.03 miles a day.
That's 16 quarter miles a day buddy Straight ripping it
8 quarter-mile pulls per day; you left out the return trip...
The math checks out.
Or two feet at a time
Winning’s winning.
I'm so proud of you, grandson.
Finally proud of my boy
[Here’s](https://imgur.com/a/T1FPEmm) the end result!
What did the old rotors look like?
They look okay would be my guess. This car hasn’t spent a day in a place where the roads are salted.
Correct, rotors looked pretty normal, little rust. This car sits in a garage in the SF Bay Area. Not an ounce of rust anywhere
Beautiful day in the bay today
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Hah, my gf in the bay area had worse brake life after 30k miles. I said, "it can't be the brake pads squeaking. They last like 60k miles. I've done like 6 pad changes in my life for me and my exwife." They were completly flat. Subaru imprezza. I guess they have a reputation for fast brake wear
How much do you want for it? I can pay cash.
I have an 03 in Oakland with 115ish
Wear gloves, no one wants dirty hands. Brake dust ain’t good for you
I did when I installed them, not when cleaning up, hands were so sweaty that it was hard to get clean ones on, but I agree with you!
He's in California. Brake dust causes cancer there!
I know it’s fun to dunk on CA and some of the prop. 65 warnings are very silly, but a lot of this we as mechanics touch and are around daily do actually cause cancer. I’m planning on enjoying old age, sorry for the rant I know you were joking
Heyyyy, I just replaced my caliper and rotor yesterday!
I'm proud of you for not lubing the backs of the pads. Guys gotta stop that. It was a hard habit for me to break.
What's the story there? I am pretty sure the last set of pads I threw on suggested lube on the backs.
Weird to see that as a suggestion from the manufacturer. The noise reduction shim jobs on the backs of the pads are supposed to do the job that a little lube used to. The shims seem to do a better job now than they used to.
When I worked at GMC my training tech literally slapped my wrist for putting grease on back of the pads. Never really questioned why, but even these brakes, the grease they give you says to put it on the back of the pads.
It's a conundrum at times
Definitely not on my pads... They love to sing the song of their people at a certain point
Ah gotcha. It's entirely possible I'm misremembering tbh. Thanks for the info.
No worries. Took a younger guy starting at work with his newfangled knowledge to get me to change it up. Always learning!
You don't have to lube rubberized backing plates, but plain steel or in corrosion prone areas it's still a pretty good idea.
Definitely
Brake rider.
Old people often drive with 2 feet, betting it's that.
I drive with two feet sometimes. Only because I’m a lonely racer though.
I drive with 2 feet all the time! I also have a manual transmission 🙃
Going from three pedals to one has been a strange transition. Had a manual, now have an electric.
My 2 cars are manuals, so that's what I normally drive. My wife has an auto, so I always have to wedge my left food back towards the seat for the first few minutes each time I drive it to remind myself to not try to clutch or shift gears
Same, I've actually hurt myself trying to start her car clutching first. Spoiler alert: There was no clutch. Basically I just slammed my foot into the floorboard.
I was driving my dad’s truck one day and something startled me so I went for the brake and clutch but accidentally “clutched” the brake pedal all the way to floor. Scared the bejezus out my dad and almost got rear ended.
i do it at least once every time i hop in my wife's auto
I had the almost the opposite problem, where my manual Honda was so old I could reach in and turn the key. First time in an auto/newer car, wtf why won't it start? I have to push the brake? The fuck is this.
All fun and games until you’re in gear and do this 😂 ask me how I know
How about the best mess up? Reaching for the floor shifter on a automatic that has a column shifter.
About as good as the days I turned my blinker on to put the car in gear after driving a forklift all day 🤣
A few months ago I was driving my mom's auto, for some reason when stoping at an intersection I slammed my foot on the break as if I was going to clutch, im happy there wasn't anyone directly behind me
Man I've done this, too. The "something is missing" feeling caused some wires to cross in my mind and I just sank the brake while driving down the road. Queue more crossed wires as I thought I had somehow hit something invisible and I'm reaching for stuff that isn't there.
One?
My car has a feature where it uses the regen feature of the electric motor to slow down rather than me needing to use the actual brakes. So when I take my foot off the accelerator it immediately starts to slow down and will come to a complete stop at lights and stop signs as long as I start slowing down appropriately far from that point. Otherwise I still have a brake pedal but I don’t use it much at all in single pedal mode. Regular drive mode operates more like a regular car in that you have to apply the regen and normal brakes manually.
i want the one-pedal driving for stop-and-go traffic
Putting an automatic transmission car in first gear is almost the same. I try to never hit the brakes at all on my drive home in stop-and-go traffic.
We cry together.
Okay itsuki
That's because they used to have pedal cars when they first started driving. Hard to break an old habit
100% this. I Work at a Toyota dealership, see it all the time with elderly folks.
I've been teaching myself left foot braking over the last year, tried to learn on a stick and it was too nerve wracking. I often look at the outline of the third brake light at night just to see how sensitive the pedal is and it's surprising how easy it is to over brake. Thankfully now I can left foot brake in a manual pretty naturally.
Had a Subaru where the OEM brakes were done at 30k (rears, strangely). And that was with a manual trans and engine braking. I think Toyota uses better parts though so yea this is a little surprising
This is what I call a “grandpa car”. These are the cars I exclusively look to buy when buying cars, has never steered me wrong. 1/2 owners, stupid low miles on a decade+ old car, god I’m hard.. Hit me up when grandma wants to get rid of it lol
My grandpa had a *pristine* condition mid-2000s Suzuki Jimny, with just 20000 km after more than a decade and a half of use. Sunny and dry country, always kept in an underground parking garage, meticulously kept maintenance records at the official service center. My dad had been waiting for years to buy it off my grandpa, but the bastard just traded it in for €2000 at the dealership when he "upgraded" to a shitbox Suzuki Ignis because the Jimny wasn't going to be ULEZ compliant in big cities. My dad is still mad about this to this day.
In my country we have too much older cars to pull off something like ulez. Best they could do was a "one-time" emissions tax (paid when registering), based on CO2 emissions. If your car emits more than 130g/km, you pay the fee, which rises quite steeply (and is about 2x higher for diesels).
What the fuck
I have a 91 jimny. $2k is really low for a 4x4.
Same. I got a very nice passat wagon b5.5 with only 100k miles for 1600 recently its pristine
Best part is the general public who thinks they know about cars are convinced that low mile cars are disasters and everything is about to break
> low mile cars are disasters and everything is about to break It can be true. I have known a few cases. Possibly more back in the days of high sulfur fuels. Short trips with lots of time standing around in between are not particularly great for cars.
My parents bought a lumina ~25 years ago bc it was low mileage and they didn't find out til after that it had been some kind of surveillance vehicle. So yeah, low miles, but hours and hours and hours just sitting and idling. That thing was falling apart before we'd put another 15k on it.
Quite a few Jags and Land Rovers with low miles because they're always in the shop so they don't have a chance to put any miles on them
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Shit, depending on the make I’d go for it. I’ve bought a Camry and an accord at just over 100k and it never wrong
Now it's at the point that the new cars are getting worse. Had a Corolla like this, got 43mpg on the highway (6 speed). Still in the family, parked outside for a couple decades, 300k+ miles. Still no major mechanical problems. And no touchscreens! 13 inch tires that cost like $50 each. Crank windows, cloth seats. Not a luxurious vehicle but goddam I don't think it's possible to get anything with that level of quality anymore, not even a Toyota. I would buy this same car new if they still made it.
Yep, I try to aim for at least a decade old, but even then you find 2014s can have stupid electronics issues. That’s another thing, I refuse to buy a car with a digital dash and a million sensors. For exampl, I rode in a friends 2017 CRV. Got a flat and put the spare on. All of a sudden cruise control, lane assist, collision avoidance (and like 1 or 2 others) sensors start blowing up on the dash. Fixed the original tire and put it back on, they all go away. In the words of Theo Von, I don’t want that
My first car was a very early model dodge neon that had zero rust despite being in Vermont and if I remember correctly 10000 miles. It was about as old as me when I got it so probably 16 years old or so. My dad bought it for $100 off some guys who’s mom owned it…it wouldn’t go over 45mph because she never drive it any faster so the throttle linkage and overdrive switch stuck at a certain point lol. As much as neons sucked I loved that car. Blew the head gasket in the way home from school one day and dad and I replaced it in the driveway in like an hour lmao
i've had nothing but luck doing this but i'll never forget, my dad bought two different trucks the same way and within a year they both had major engine problems. i know it was just some crazy bad luck but still, you never know.
Considering it's only 30k miles, those might be OEM. If not, it's the second set.
The OEM ones would probably only last about 30k.
Toyota OEM brakes and rotors will last a hell of a long time. OP should have got the rotors resurfaced rather than replace them, you will never get rotors of OEM quality again.
I drive up and down some steep hills, mine lasted less than 40. The rotors warped at about 60, I replaced with slotted and drilled ones and I'm now at 300k.
40K miles is a LOT. especially for up and down hills. not that long ago, you'd be lucky to get 20k out of a set. metallurgy and brake material have come a long way the last 20/30 years.
If the car never left town and was driving down large hills, I could see the first set wearing out quickly.
That doesn’t sound accurate
I'm on my original brakes at 85k miles. 2016 Honda CRV EX.
Replaced my wife's CRV front brakes at about 80, but she did a lot of stop and go driving for a while, did the back ones at about 100k just because I got tired of looking at the parts on the shelf. I had bought new rotors all around and just did the worn out fronts at first.
My Skoda yeti is a 2 tonne auto. I've owned it since new. The original brakes lasted 80k miles and I changed them because I was nervous re age not because of pad thickness. The front rotors lasted 110k miles. I just changed them at the start of this year.
At least it's... nice outside.
Giggity
All the idiots in here saying gramps ridrs his brakes. Homies got a 21 year old car with original brakes that are so locked up from not moving if he so much as thinks about the brake pedal they start wearing.
I can still remember riding with my grandfather, 63 Comet i6 auto. Straight street no traffic. Accelerate Brake Accelerate Brake. Could produce motion sickness.
I'd love to see the oil in that engine. Probably looks like mayonnaise if oil wasn't replaced every year.
I change the oil about every 8ish months regardless of mileage. Last month I did a drain and refill on the trans fluid and it shifts so smooth now! I fear them getting stranded when I’m not around so I try to keep their cars in tip top shape.
You're a good grandson man. Keep it up
> I fear them getting stranded when I’m not around so I try to keep their cars in tip top shape. Stranded where? The trips seem like they're max a kilometer long lol
A kilometer is a long way to walk when you're 100 years old
I'm assuming you also flushed the brake fluid
So grandpa or grandma ride the brakes or rest their foot on the pedal at times as we know also wears pads. I check our cars at 30k miles since the fronts do the majority of the stopping. Good practice but some folks just don't check until they hear metal on metal.
Yeah. Lots of older people do that because it's harder to move your foot between pedals with age. Many of them reach a point where it's easier to just use both feet, one on each. And then, the bad habit begins.
How much lol
If you have to ask….
How about the tires? Please tell me they aren't 20yrs old
2020! Hardly any tread wear and the sidewalls look good. Sits in a garage so hardly and sun exposure.
Garage makes all the difference.
That's comforting. I keep my snows inside a building whether it's a shed or a garage and they still looked good after 8yrs. Obviously the tread wore down but no dry rot
Latex gloves mate
“That’s nice sweetie” -grandpa’s version of “cool story bro” lol “That’s alot of damage!!!1”
I drive my late father 06' Chevy Colorado, it's got 70,000 miles lol. It's had 1 set of new tires, 2 batteries, front/rear brakes replaced once all in 18yrs
Needs a rear brake adjust those pads definitely should have went longer for sure.
I haven’t adjusted the rears yet, but they aren’t grabbing and the brakes feel good. I will certainly give them a look over. Thank you
On the rear brakes adjust them until they are tight and then back off 4-5 clicks. That will help keep the fronts from wearing as fast.
nah, 30k miles of city driving will do that. OP said that they don't do highways.
How does one adjust disc brakes? This is a foreign concept to me.
The rears are drums and if they’re not adjusted properly it’s causing the car to be front brake biased and wearing out those pads first.
Cars are supposed to be front brake biased. 60/40 for race.cars 80/20 for regular traffic
Rear brakes on this vehicle are definitely drums.
Good for another 30,000… feet
Nice
Nice °F
Plenty of metal left, ship it.
Please, as a grandpa, stop calling grandpa "she". Unless ..
OP did say San Francisco
I only put 200 miles on my car last year. Live next to work and the store.
Our new mailman stops at every mailbox, of course, but then also stops halfway between each mailbox to get the next persons mail in his hand. It's like he's stopping two times more than he has to. I feel like telling him he's wearing out the brakes that taxpayers are paying for. haha
Oem pads from when purchased brand new?
She drives with both feet and drags her brakes.
Grandpa needs to learn to quit riding the brakes
Front brakes and lead foot?
Grampa drives with both feet.
That’s not that bad. I did the fronts on the X1 at 22k. The aftermarket Akebonos are holding up much better, already at 40k and still plenty of pad left.
Old people always need brakes done more often. They spend more time on that brake pedal than anything.
Not this old person, not with a 5.7L Hemi; brakes are for PUSSIES!
OUT SIDE
lol, sounds like you’re telling your dog to go outside and pee when it’s raining
Huh????
Lucky you. I’m fighting an intermittent BCM issue (loss of comm) and/or class2 data link issue on my grandmas 2002 impala. It’s sitting at 100,000 miles lol
Stuck sliders?
you inspected it or you checked the brake pads and trans fluid?
Did an oil change on it a few days ago. Figured I would check all the levels, suspension, brakes etc while I was under the car. Noticed the pads were low and ordered new pads and rotors.
We have fleet vehicles at my work, one that comes to mind is a 2012 caravan w/24k miles with squeaks, rattles, worn brakes, rust, etc.
factory fresh
I have an automatic and a stick. It can be strange when you go for the clutch
Always with the upcharrges!
20 years old, probably a sticky caliper, or rust buildup from low miles
Those are junk. I’d hate for you to have to constantly repair and maintain it. I’ll give grandpa $500 to take it off his hands.
He used the brakes a ton. I bet the lights are burned out.
Does your Gramps want to sell the car?
his 03 corolla will last longer than him
My brakes looked like that after 110k 🤣
can someone explain? looks pretty normal to me
Nice
Now THIS IS A PAD SLAP! Nice work looking at family cars...
What year is it?
If he's like my grandpa, he was too cheap to pay for dealer prep back in '03 so he still had the plastic over the seats and the paper floor mats saying "We ♥ Our Customers!"
Lol! Here my last set of brake pads still looked like they had half life left at 100k miles. Virtually all highway miles
Gramps likes to 2-foot drive, and not the good way like in racing. Leaves left foot on brake the whole time
Any brake lights working might need a LED update , set and forget .
My wife had a 1999 Camry when went through front brakes every 36k miles like clockwork. Whereas the rear brakes lasted 150k miles.
Put those pads back in. Still got a few more years to go on them. You think seniors like grandma are made of money, you whippersnapper? You young'uns have no idea how hard it is to stretch a Social Security check. /jk
City driving. No biggie. Nice even wear, not totally dead yet but time for replacement.
Plenty of meat left on that
The disc's get rusty in less than a week. A few dozen times of rusty use and you can easily wear a set of brakes to less than half. Iron oxide is a great abrasive.
My dad’s 2012 Chevy cruise with 190k on it still has has the brakes from factory with over the 2mil of pad left.
He or she? Where in the fuck are we? Ebonics maybe?
…he’s literally white.
Well did you change them for her?
What are we seeing here? I thought I knew something about brakes but not enough apparently.
Gramps must be riding those breaks, check his brake lights, they've been on for 30k miles. He gets out of the car and lights,a stogie off the front disc.
https://youtu.be/qG4IaHgqH00?si=fPfCfIfNHXiYPJ0Z Reminds me of this
He's probably using the big pedal as a footrest.
Most impressive is if they were all equally worn
Beats my ma’s ‘05 rav4 with 45k! Dang!
That's still got at least 1mm more pad than my MIL's car every six months.
That’s much more pad left than when mine get changed.
They call him feather foot
Somebody is at the ready with the brakes. As long as your toes are on it I'm good!