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How many miles on your original brakes

Old Jul 26, 2003 | 06:54 AM
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How many miles on your original brakes

Just rotated my tires (all six of them) yesterday. The front brakes at 129,000 miles are still near new and the rears are still well over half before the rivets touch.<br>Must be that Jacobs.
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Old Jul 26, 2003 | 07:04 AM
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Re:How many miles on your original brakes

Gotta be the exhaust brake, and the country miles.
Replaced my fronts at 35,000 miles. :
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Old Jul 26, 2003 | 05:55 PM
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Re:How many miles on your original brakes

Still on the original brakes at 63,000.<br><br>Mike
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Old Jul 26, 2003 | 08:54 PM
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Re:How many miles on your original brakes

42,000 on my first set, rear are still ok....
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Old Jul 27, 2003 | 01:22 AM
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Re:How many miles on your original brakes

I'm on my second set of front brakes at 37,035. I'm bout half way through these. :'( I hate city miles. &gt;
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Old Jul 27, 2003 | 04:23 AM
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Re:How many miles on your original brakes

3rd set front,second set rear@ 108,000 miles<br>Guess I'm rough on brakes :-[ ;D
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Old Jul 27, 2003 | 11:18 PM
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Re:How many miles on your original brakes

at 108,000 km ;D<br>-replaced rear shoes and turned drums<br>-front pads still have 60% left<br>---<br>Al
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Old Jul 28, 2003 | 03:54 PM
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Re:How many miles on your original brakes

76,000 and still going strong on the originals. Looks like they are only about 1/2 gone. Thinking I will make 100k on them.
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Old Jul 29, 2003 | 01:22 PM
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Re:How many miles on your original brakes

Currently at 46,100 miles on factory brakes. And thats pretty hard mile too, lots of highspeed slowdowns. :
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Old Jul 29, 2003 | 01:23 PM
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Re:How many miles on your original brakes

42,000 and still plenty of meat.
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Old Jul 29, 2003 | 03:36 PM
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Re:How many miles on your original brakes

170K, and I've been through so many sets I can't remember (4 or 5) plus 1 rotor..... ???
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Old Jul 29, 2003 | 03:45 PM
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Re:How many miles on your original brakes

13,200 and still lookin' good!
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Old Jul 29, 2003 | 03:48 PM
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Re:How many miles on your original brakes

68000 on the 3500 and 37000 on the 2500, still original front and rear 8)
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Old Jul 29, 2003 | 05:46 PM
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Re:How many miles on your original brakes

Just over 155k miles on the original set. Maybe 60% highway, the rest being city &amp; of course plenty off road.
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