Brakes, how many miles should they last?

Impossible to tell. Do you do a lot of city/hill driving? Or, is it mostly flat land on long hauls? Do you back off, and coast into stops and slow downs, or do you use brake all the time? Some might get 30,000, others a couple hundred thousand. Both normal.

We had our last fifth wheel for 14 years and never replaced brake shoes.
I estimate 18000 miles on that trailer.

TropicalForever wrote:
Does any one know the average number of miles we should be able to get out of our brakes on 5th wheel?

They may have to be adjusted ( I don't think that they are auto adjusted). Wheel bearings must be checked.

TropicalForever wrote:
Does any one know the average number of miles we should be able to get out of our brakes on 5th wheel?

If you have a diesel TV with an exhaust brake, they should last a very long time. I hardly use my service brakes at all any more with the Pacbrake.

Our last TT was getting close at 40,000 miles.

70,000 miles (+)

Or at least that is about how much are on ours and still good

In all my years of various trailers (about 30 years) I have never worn out a set of trailer brakes. I have had to replace parts and things due to problems

TropicalForever wrote:
Does any one know the average number of miles we should be able to get out of our brakes on 5th wheel?

I was talking to a tech when we had a problem with ours and he said he had never seen any worn out, but magnets do fail and other problems occur we had a pad come loose from the shoe.