82,000 Miles, first brake job

7eregrine

The man, the myth, the legend
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Land of Cleve
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2016.5 CX5
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).
 

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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.
 
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 😁👍.
 
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.
 
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 :/
 
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.
 

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