Geoff
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I put 130,000 on the front brakes of my last GTI. The rears lasted around 60K. Brake life is wholly a function of how you drive the car and how you use it.
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I put 130,000 on the front brakes of my last GTI. The rears lasted around 60K. Brake life is wholly a function of how you drive the car and how you use it.
billski
Active member
you're joking, no? 130K? I've never heard of anything going that long. Really? Were they operating normally the whole time? What kind of driving did you do? Hilly roads?
Geoff
Well-known member
I was living on the NH coast. I had a 40 mile each way commute in minimal traffic that was 2/3 highway and only had a few traffic lights & stop signs. My Killington drive was 120 miles of highway and 30 miles on Route 4 where you rarely touch the brakes. If you're in the right gear all the time with a manual transmission, you don't use the brakes very often. Until recently, I pretty much lived at 80mph on the highway and speed limit + 10 on secondary roads. You can't do that in Vermont since the state police and local towns are now using speeding tickets as a revenue source. I now use the cruise control and go the speed limit until I get out of the state.
I'd never gotten anything like 130K out of front brakes before. I've driven a lot of heavy SUVs over the years that chew through front pads and rotors in around 50,000 miles.
I drive down the Killington access road every day without using the brakes. I put the car in a lower gear. I drive most of the time the same way I snow drive where I use the engine to control speed and rarely touch the brakes unless I need to come to a complete stop. From observation of other drivers, I think most are unaware that their automatic transmission has any setting other than "D".
Are you sure you dont have that reversed. I have never seen front brakes last longer than back breaks. I just replaced my back breaks after 146k miles.
hammer
Active member
It's not common, but it can happen...my 1990 Acura Integra went through rear brakes every 35K miles and the fronts lasted over 60K.
I commute in the Boston area over 20 miles each way to work, so I end up being hard on brakes...:sad:
Geoff
Well-known member
It's apparently fairly common in Volkswagens. The rears go quicker than the fronts and the rear rotors go in the dumpster when you change pads. I imagine the pads and rotors are much beefier in the front so they live longer. With other cars I've owned, it was always the other way around where the rears lasted forever and you chewed through fronts every 50K.
It seems to be that way with the newer VWs at least, my old GTI would go through fronts quicker than the rears. I think I read something somewhere that they bias more pressure towards the rear than most cars and that's why the rears wear quicker. I'm not sure if that's true, or if it even makes any sense, but that's what I read.
The MKIV A chasis VW's had an issue with the rear brakes; mainly the rotors. I can't remembr if the rotors were soft, or if they used a hard OEM pad. Regardless, people were replacing their rear rotors in as little as 50-60k. Which is nothing for rear brakes. Rears should last a lot longer than that.
SKIQUATTRO
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Back on the market
**new tires/alignment 4/7/09**
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Contact me...great ski car, great gas mileage, Quattro will get you to the mountain in any conditions!!
my 6yr old is screaming for me to get a jeep to tool around town in, thats why i'm selling.
**new tires/alignment 4/7/09**
Conti ExtremeContacts
Contact me...great ski car, great gas mileage, Quattro will get you to the mountain in any conditions!!
my 6yr old is screaming for me to get a jeep to tool around town in, thats why i'm selling.
thorski
New member
I hope that everyone of you that drives a foreign name brand car loses your job this year. :flag:
billski
Active member
huh? Your 6YO is calling the car shots???? :blink:
billski
Active member
Sound like the same arrogance I encountered in Detroit in 1981. GM Management was more concerned with their own self-interest than doing what's right for the customer. I know this first-hand. If they had a quality product then, I would have bought. Not. They had plenty of time to get with program.
Warp Daddy
Active member
BUY Quality NOT Nationalism or Unionism --------------------- end of story
hammer
Active member
My 12YO daughter would like us to get a convertible punch buggy...no way that's going to happen...
hammer
Active member
+1
What about all of the people to shop at Walmart (yes and I'm guilty on occasion)?
What's foreign?
Many Chevys have less American content than a US built Toyota, Honda, Nissan or Subaru.
My Subi was built in the US, so was the Toyota Truck I had before that.
thorski
New member
Can't talk to much politics.
Their companies get stronger-ours get weaker.
Trade in your dependency on foreign oil for dependency on foreign manufacturing,
Just like rome we are falling asleep.
I hope you lose your jobs. :flag:
Their companies get stronger-ours get weaker.
Trade in your dependency on foreign oil for dependency on foreign manufacturing,
Just like rome we are falling asleep.
I hope you lose your jobs. :flag:
Warp Daddy
Active member
Unfortunately truth be known MANY of "our" companies are Multi-national today------ so what is 100% American is mostly mythical .
