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Originally Posted by recycledsixtie
What is a ballpark estimate of how long brake pads last in city driving?
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Depends entirely on your driving style. In the city, I anticipate stops, so I rarely have to use the brake hard, I just take my foot off the gas, leave the car in gear and use the engine braking to slow the car almost to a complete stop. I use the brakes lightly right before I need to come to a complete stop. I have had cars that the pads have lasted well over 80k miles.
If you subscribe to the "I'm in a big hurry to stop" style of driving, where you accelerate as hard as you can and then late brake for the next red light, you can go through pads fairly quickly, 10k miles or so.
On the track is another matter. I will go through about 1/2 the pad material on stock pads during a one day event.
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