Arlen Holder wrote:
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?

That depends entirely on how the person operates the vehicle and what
the vehicle is.
In city stop and go, you are going to use up the brakes and clutch
faster than highway driving, usually by a large margin. However if you
drive like one of my relatives you will wipe out the brakes far faster.
She likes to drive fast, then climb on the brakes rather than down shift
or use any engine braking at all. She goes through at least one full set
of pads and rotors in about 30K or so. Calipers at every second swap.

Then there are cars like my wife has, it's AWD and has a VERY balanced
braking system. It had all new brakes put on by the dealer when we
bought it at 60K and it has 140K on it and the pads and rotors still
look new. I'm going to change out the pads because the caliper pins
stuck on one front and the inner pads in the rear hung up and let the
rotor rust. All related to installer error.

With the description you have given of your driving style and road
conditions you have I would say you did pretty good.
However it wouldn't be hard to double the clutch life and front brakes
on flatter terrain.


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Steve W.