Factory Brake Life

[btfarm]

I do believe the last several years, the GM trucks have some great OEM brakes. I was doing maint. today, LOF and tire rotate. At nearly 115k miles I still have about 7/16" of front and 5/16" rear life left. I'm thinking I might just get 200k out of these if the calipers don't hang up in the meantime. I'm REAL easy on brakes and I do 95% of my driving is highway so your results may vary.

 

[Unit453]

HaulinRV got over...I wanna say 286k miles on his factory brakes and they still had life left. This was on his 06 LBZ before he traded in.

 

[btfarm]

Yeah, he went Cummins mainly for the engine and so he could get a reliable manual trans (clutch actually). Too bad he doesn't check in here any more. He had a number of good posts about towing.

 

[WarWagon]

Saqme here lots of pad left with 115K towing 5th wheel RV's etc. Only problem is a hotspot in the rotor that became a hard spot. Makes noise when going down the grapevine loaded at times when the brakes are really hot.

 

[DEERE3594]

Its a shame the brakes out last hubs, shouldn't it be the other way around?

 

[tracker954x4]

I've got 122K on my oem pads. The original brakes have come a long way in the last 10 years or so. I bought my truck with 66K on it, the previous owner used it to tow his 5th wheel camper. Now i use it like a race car. been driving the snot out of it for the last almost 60K and its lookin like i might get about150K or so out of em. Starting to get a serious vibration out of my rear rotors again when they get hot running to fire calls. I think its bout time for some drilled or slotted rotors

 

[Joey D]

I have almost 100k miles on my vans brakes. The way I drive I am amazed they lasted this long.
I am changing to the same brake system on my 98 so I expect to get the same life on that truck as well. I have caliper brakets to use the dual piston calipers and slip off rotors off the 01 and up HD's on the front and rear. It will be a huge improvement over the older system I have been running