I seem to be replacing my ford equipment brakes to often on my 2004 crewcab XLT. I had my front pads replaced and rotors turned at 34,000 mi, now I'm being told my front brakes need attention again at 54,000 mi. Is anyone else going through brakes so often. I was thinking going with aftermarket brakes.

 

the ford oem brake pads are garbage. go w/ a good semi metallic pad.

 

car quest blue semi metallics

 

I'm still on my stock brakes at 40k miles, and 20k of them with large tires. I also heard a lot of good things about the Carquest blue pads. Guess I just got a good set from Ford!

 

Went over 60,000 miles on the original brakes. Had them done all the way around. The rears still had some life in them, but not enough to wanna' make a second trip to the shop for brakes.

 

I'm seeing that newer trucks, 04 nad newer have OK brakes, not great by any means. They seem to more heavily dust and wear quicker. My originals were very normal, dusted but not that much and I got almost 40k miles or 70k km's out of the first set. I suggest going a good semi-metallic pad and a good rotor as well. I get my stuff from Carquest and am completely satisfied and then some.

Having 34k then another 20k on top of that, you were close at 34, but c'mon, only 20k and they need it again? Somebody is bored and wants you to buy brakes for fun. I'd check them myself . If they have the thickness of the pads backing (what the friction material is attached to), then you're about 15-20k away I'd guess.

When it comes time, buy good stuff, not just the most expensive stuff either. I try and steer away from Ceramics.

 

I've seen a carquest not too far from home, but normally get parts at canadian tire, or uap. I think I'll check this carquest place out. I keep reading good things about them on here. UAP carries quality parts, so I'm always happy with them, but now I'm curious to see how carquest compares.