On 31/7/20 10:38 am, Arlen Holder wrote:
> On 30 Jul 2020 23:03:32 -0000, Scott Dorsey wrote:
>
>> Teenagers can go through a set of brake pads in ten miles on the track.
>> assuming they make it ten miles before the clutch wears out.
>
> This is a college-aged girl who probably has never left skid marks on the
> road even once, as I've seen her drive - and it's verrrrrry sloooooow.
>
> Nonetheless, without an actual miles per millimeter of pad, it's not
> helpful to tell me everyone is different, and every car is different, and
> every road is different, as everyone knows that and so it isn't useful.
>
> It's like claiming there is no such thing as a statistical average.
> o There is a statistical average - but it takes data to arrive at it.
>
> All I'm asking for is the data in miles per pad (or miles per millimeter).
>
> I'm leaning toward 1000 miles per millimeter for those who brake hard, and
> double to quadruple that (see The Real Bev's response) for normal driving.
>
> All I want is number of miles per pad, where I can do the math (assuming 10
> mm of pad is worn away in that time period, leaving 2mm of pad on average).
>
> So far we have only two suitable responses:
> 1. I get 1,000 miles per millimeter of FF pads (Jurid/Textar)
> 2. The Real Bev gets about 4,000 miles per millimeter of pad
>
> How many miles per front pad do others get?
>
I'm up to 100,000 kilometres on my Toyota front pads and I expect many more.

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