Thread: Brake pad replacement cost

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I've just come back from a dealer in Sydney who after dropping in the car ( I was 45 mins away ) called to suggest I needed new brake pads. With the outcome being $615 worse off tonight

Now the car's a D4 with 23,000km on it in 23 months of mainly city use with occaisonal long trips. Is that sort of wear to be expected on the brake pads?? this is my 3rd LR now and I don't recall changing pads as early on a D3 or RRS

Ouch, you may get better life out of your brakes if you use the same foot for accelerating and braking.

I got 48,000 kms out of mine on a D3.
$1100.00 for pads & sensors including major service.

Regards

Chuck

I got an advisory at 48,000km and expect to replace them at 60,000km

I have replaced front pads twice, at 30000 and 68000km. The second job also included front rotors.
Just replaced the rear pads at 78000km for the first time. Costs I will have to wait until Monday o I can check the maintenance spreadsheet I keep at work.
Cheers
Mike

Originally Posted by dukemasterpro

Now the car's a D4 with 23,000km on it in 23 months of mainly city use with occaisonal long trips. Is that sort of wear to be expected on the brake pads?? this is my 3rd LR now and I don't recall changing pads as early on a D3 or RRS

I am wondering if the short life span of the original pads is similar to the short life span syndrome of OEM tyres. Most of us know that the original tyres only last around 40,000 sometimes a lot less. We generally get around double or more than that out of the replacement set. This is because the OEM set has less rubber on them. I'll just pick ToyNisUbishi as an example company.

They build say 200,000 cars of a particular model each requiring 5 tyres. Now if they were to purchase those tyres even at wholesale or maybe a bit better they'd probably still be up for a couple of hundred per tyre. So they chat up a tyre manufacturer and get a deal on 1 million tyres for as cheap as possible and tyre manufacturer says they can do them really cheap BUT they will only have 60% of the tread. DEAL says ToyNisUbishi.

I've checked it out myself by measuring the tread depth of a tyre on a new car and checking the depth of the same model tyre at a tyre dealer and "TADA" more tread on the new tyre.

I am not saying this is the case but I wonder if this could be the same issue with OEM brake pads or maybe even the rotors.

I have recently replaced front and rear pads and front rotors at 114000 country kms. (D3 purchased 2hand at 70000 kms). The rotors had not been replaced before, but the pads may been but no indication on the service record.
Pads were OEM, came from independent LR supplier in Melbourne and cost around $120 for front and $110 for rear and included clips and bolts (front). Front rotors were approx $230. The pads wear sensors (1 front LH, 1 rear RH) only need replacing if pad wear activates the dash light.
About the original tryes, I have one unused original goodyear(235-70-17) in the shed from the spare, and yes the tread depth is economical, about 8mm.

Ivan R