82,000 Miles, first brake job

[7eregrine]

Anybody beat that for the ORIGINAL brakes? Had rotors and pads replaced today for the first time. Just under 82k miles. 4mm in front, 2mm in the rear. Weren't making noise or anything.

Pretty happy.

(Damn..just detailed her too and that rim looks like hell ... Guess I didn't get them well enough).

 

[ColoradoDriver]

All of them? My rears needed replacing at 54k-ish, but my fronts went to 76k.

Then I did all 4 again a couple years ago at 115k-ish because the rotors needed replacing, not really because of pad life.

 

[Cooper1]

All of them? My rears needed replacing at 54k-ish, but my fronts went to 76k.

Then I did all 4 again a couple years ago at 115k-ish because the rotors needed replacing, not really because of pad life.

Mine are due at 40k

 

[HyFlyer]

We've been just over 100k miles for OEM rears and longer for fronts on all of our Mazdas (3's, cx5's) with different driver and different usage. I take them down to 1mm remaining so roughly the same as your experience with 2mm remaining at 82k miles. Our 2.2 diesel was the most recent rear oem pads @ 105k(ish?) miles with lots of pad on the front still that will make close to 140-150k miles.

Mazda makes good stuff that lasts a long time .

 

[Lazy2.5]

Got about 160k KM on my mazda 6.

 

[N7turbo]

We've been just over 100k miles for OEM rears and longer for fronts on all of our Mazdas (3's, cx5's) with different driver and different usage. I take them down to 1mm remaining so roughly the same as your experience with 2mm remaining at 82k miles. Our 2.2 diesel was the most recent rear oem pads @ 105k(ish?) miles with lots of pad on the front still that will make close to 140-150k miles.

Mazda makes good stuff that lasts a long time .

You wouldn't think so from Reddit and Facebook. Lots of people dogging on Mazda's brakes saying they don't last very long.

 

[RedBaron]

Our 2019 CX-5 is at just over 50K and the rears need doing. About 3mm right now. I've got pads and rotors, but haven't got around to it :/

 

[wlong01]

You wouldn't think so from Reddit and Facebook. Lots of people dogging on Mazda's brakes saying they don't last very long.

Rears seem to go quickly, fronts hold up pretty well.

 

[HyFlyer]

You wouldn't think so from Reddit and Facebook. Lots of people dogging on Mazda's brakes saying they don't last very long.

I suspect that some folks have everything stacked against them for brake pad wear ...
* Urban environment with lots of stop and go
* Driving style that wears brakes faster
* Geographic area that is corrosive (snow/moist costal/etc)
* Do ZERO brake maintenance or even check how things are going until a shop/dealer/etc says "you need new brakes" (even though there's 4mm remaining but owner has no idea and just says yeah change them)
* Then bitches about how Mazda brakes suck! On Reddit and BookFace

Then folks such as myself are on the opposite end of the spectrum so have a different result. Such is life.

 

[leeharvey418]

Anybody beat that for the ORIGINAL brakes?

117,000 miles. I took it in for state inspection - the shop told me that technically they could have passed me, but I'd be needing brakes by the time the next inspection was due.

 

[7eregrine]

Thats INSANE Leeharvey. Wow.

I suspect that some folks have everything stacked against them for brake pad wear ...
* Urban environment with lots of stop and go

Me.

* Driving style that wears brakes faster

Definitely me. No way these should have lasted this long.

* Geographic area that is corrosive (snow/moist costal/etc)

Also me.

* Do ZERO brake maintenance or even check how things are going until a shop/dealer/etc says "you need new brakes" (even though there's 4mm remaining but owner has no idea and just says yeah change them)

I will say, as some know I, am an acquaintance of a Service Director at Mazda, He told me at my 30K service to have them "lube the slides". I didn't know what that meant, but I had it done.
Maybe that's the secret?

* Then bitches about how Mazda brakes suck! On Reddit and BookFace

Defiantly not me. Spell check fixed my definitely...I'm leaving it.

 

[HyFlyer]

Well, look atchyou ! Haha breaking the braking mold and still getting good service life out of your pads . Those reddit haters must just be bots tryn'a bring down Mazda's good name by "throwin' shade"!

 

[RokkuAni]

Oem Cx9 127k with about 4 mm on front. Cx 5&9 had 80k on back with maybe 4 mm too. Back was such a pain, so I just replaced it when I took it apart. I don't have time to remove tires every 20-30k. No sense pushing it to the limit.

 

[Jmaz]

Oem Cx9 127k with about 4 mm on front. Cx 5&9 had 80k on back with maybe 4 mm too. Back was such a pain, so I just replaced it when I took it apart. I don't have time to remove tires every 20-30k. No sense pushing it to the limit.

I follow the same strategy and don't milk the last mile out of components. Especially if they're not too expensive or difficult to change. Your brake pad change pushed the next one out some years.

 

[RokkuAni]

Our 2019 CX-5 is at just over 50K and the rears need doing. About 3mm right now. I've got pads and rotors, but haven't got around to it :/

Unsure why you doing rotor. Unless it's really bad salt damage. In that case I hope you pay extra for a higher quality coating on it. Rotor can last over 150k, depending on how bad you hit the brake.

 

[N7turbo]

I don't have time to remove tires every 20-30k.

When do you rotate them?

 

[RokkuAni]

When do you rotate them?

I do it through Sam club. I have a plus membership access at 8am ( back in the day Business at 7). Usually I can show up and be first one. Now you can schedule it. If I'm lucky, it be done within 1 hour. I do my shopping there or Home Depot next door.

 

[macker]

Thats INSANE Leeharvey. Wow.

Me.


Definitely me. No way these should have lasted this long.

Also me.

I will say, as some know I, am an acquaintance of a Service Director at Mazda, He told me at my 30K service to have them "lube the slides". I didn't know what that meant, but I had it done.
Maybe that's the secret?

Defiantly not me. Spell check fixed my definitely...I'm leaving it.

Definitely helps. Good advice by the SD. He's referring to the slider pins that connect the Caliper hardware together. When you apply the brake, the piston in the caliper squeezes the two pieces together. Having those sliders moving freely helps ensure your pads don't stick to your rotor....causing early wear.

 

[theblooms]

Brake replacement has nothing to do with mileage, and everything to do with use.

If you have a Miata that you hammer on at Road Atlanta or Sears Point every Saturday, you're going to go through a set every 250 laps, or 625 miles.
If you have a Mazda5 that you use for inner city Uber driving, you'll probably go through a set every 7,000 miles.
If you have a CX-9 and all you do is long term rural Interstate commuting back and forth to work every day, 100,000 miles is absolutely not out of the question.

 

[Jmaz]

Brake replacement has nothing to do with mileage, and everything to do with use.

If you have a Miata that you hammer on at Road Atlanta or Sears Point every Saturday, you're going to go through a set every 250 laps, or 625 miles.
If you have a Mazda5 that you use for inner city Uber driving, you'll probably go through a set every 7,000 miles.
If you have a CX-9 and all you do is long term rural Interstate commuting back and forth to work every day, 100,000 miles is absolutely not out of the question.

Absolutely pad wear is about usage and not mileage. My local driving with many stops, according to my records, yields ~ 8,000+/- miles per 1 mm of wear. New front pad friction material thickness is 10mm and rear pads 7.5 mm, so it's easy to estimate expected pad life (but still periodically inspect or glance at brakes).
Same thing applies to steering, suspension, tire and transmission wear. Starter motor also. We have to develop our own guidelines. "One size doesn't fit all".