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Default Hard or soft braking

On Sat, 14 Mar 2020 07:18:42 -0000 (UTC), Arlen Holder wrote:

It's shocking, actually, how long the rear brake shoes lasted on that SUV,
where I replaced the clutch twice in the time that I did the shoes just
once, and that rear drum had plenty of meat left for another 180K miles.


BTW, is this about right for what you might think under "normal use" where
I know there's no such thing as a defined normal use... but anyway...

a. The clutch lasted less than 100K miles (say, oh, about 80 or 90K).
b. The rear shoes lasted less than 200K miles (say, about 180K or so).
c. The front pads lasted less than 50K miles (say, oh, about 30 or 40K).
d. The front rotors went about double the pads (about 75K miles or so).
e. The rear drums are gonna last about double the shoes (about 350K).

While every "normal" is different, how do those estimates sound if someone
were to ask you "how long" do these things last under normal use?
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