Carbon ceramic pads question
Hey all Just ordered Power Stop carbon fiber ceramic severe duty truck& tow pads for my 2014 Ram 3500 CC LB dually. Most of the driving in that truck is towing out 14k lb. FW. My question, is it ...
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StonedPanther wrote:blt2ski wrote:
Like ALL things great and small. Break life depends upon two major factors.
If you do A LOT of stop and go city type drive. lESS miles.
IF you do a high percentage of miles on a freeway interstate not having to hit the brakes a dozen times a mile, more like zero with cruise on....you will get 2-3x the mileage of the city person.
Yes, the same with tires, in the Midwest or somewhere with flat land where the roads are mostly straight for miles you'll get more miles than in say north central Pennsylvania. But this is about brakes and has involved into some half assed pissing match about factory OEM brake pad life. I was calling someone out for claiming 145K on OEM pads, now there are claims of a quarter of a million miles, or more.
ROFLMAO.
Perhaps physics are different in the PNW than anywhere else in the country, or the manufacturers ship new vehicles there with some super secret squirrel brake package different than everywhere else?
We have 260K, do I hear 300K, 450K, LOL. You folks with those off the wall claims of 250K must also get twice the tire wear and double the fuel mileage too.
No physics ain't different and nope I don't get twice the tire wear, in fact I'm probably pretty hard on tires. On my cars I'm lucky to get 30K out of a set, and I've never got even 40K out of my truck tires Michealin or otherwise. Thankfully Discount tire tread wear warranty is very good. And I rarely top 11mpg towing my trailer. I just guess I must be buying vehicles that have good brake material from the factory. And we have plenty of steep grades around here. But on any vehicle I've had built after 2000my I've never had less than 100K on a set of pads, and I'm hard on brakes. Now my vehicles pre 1990 often had terrible brake life, 30K or less.
