I bought my 2003 Silverado new with 8 miles on her...I treat it well...but still treat it like a truck. A little off roading...lots of interstate..lots of towing...and lots of in town driving. I've now got 120,000 miles on it and have never replaced the brake pads. Don't have any problems yet...doesn't vibrate or grind..and I still have quite a bit of pad thickness. Is this unusual..??...I'm used to replacing about every 30-40,000 miles...when I do replace...what kind of pads does anyone recommend?...maybe I'll get 200,000...I'm going for a record...:smokin:

I bought my 2003 Silverado new with 8 miles on her...I treat it well...but still treat it like a truck. A little off roading...lots of interstate..lots of towing...and lots of in town driving. I've now got 120,000 miles on it and have never replaced the brake pads. Don't have any problems yet...doesn't vibrate or grind..and I still have quite a bit of pad thickness. Is this unusual..??...I'm used to replacing about every 30-40,000 miles...when I do replace...what kind of pads does anyone recommend?...maybe I'll get 200,000...I'm going for a record...:smokin:

i dont think this is unheard of, i went to get tires and told them to look at the brakes and the guy said they look almost new or barely used and i have 50,000 on them.

On my last truck I traded at 105,000 and didn't even look at the brakes or original tires.

Yes it's unusual, but completely logical. You could easily run enough highway miles to do it. My father did it on like 5 cars before he retired.

I would think that would be unusual if you were going off-roading some and getting mud/water up into the brakes. Strictly highway/town driving I could see it. My last two 1500's had the pads and rotors replaced at 25,000 miles. Of course I drive in a lot of muddy wet conditions during the summer months. I wish they would offer the drum set-up again for those of us who drive in harsher conditions.

my last truck had a little more than 170K miles on it before I had to replace the brake pads. my current truck has 110K and the pads still look good. So many factors to take in to account. But I think a big factor is how you drive it. A guy at my work just took his chevy to have the pads replaced and his had 120K miles on it. But the brake shop tried to screw him by telling him that his rotors were out of wear tolerance. He asked for the old rotors and the spec on the rotors and borrowed a set of calibrated digital calipers from work and proved them wrong. They refunded him the cost of the rotors rather than take the time to change them. So beware if they tell you the rotors need replaced when you do get a brake job done.