How many miles is average for brake pads?

[Wildrice]

2015 F3's---mostly short trips approx. 10K miles--I am somewhat easy on braking--still running the original rear tire. Hard to tell the brake pads condition w/o removing calipers. Braking is fine without noise--just looking for average rider estimate. Thank you kindly.

[Bfromla]

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[BLUEKNIGHT911]

2015 F3's---mostly short trips approx. 10K miles--I am somewhat easy on braking--still running the original rear tire. Hard to tell the brake pads condition w/o removing calipers. Braking is fine without noise--just looking for average rider estimate. Thank you kindly.

I am an anomaly on this issue. I have always gotten more miles than what most reported on this forum .... I currently over 42,000 mi. on my rear pads, these are EBC pads I bought from Ron in June of 2017.... And I got 43,000mi from the front BRP pads ..... I don't engine Brake, I do downshift in the twistie's to stay in the power band..... Most dealers do not look at your pads if you ask "do I need new pads" and you have 20,000mi. .... the ONLY way to know for sure is to Measure them. I bought an $ 8.00 digital caliper at Harbor Freight, it has saved me a lot of money .... Good Luck ... Mike ...PS, very few highway miles

[hypurone]

This is gonna vary for every rider out there.... Someone who travels the freeways goes forever and someone who canyon carves may only get 10-15K on them... I hated the stock pads so they got nixed early on.. I second the recommendation for EBC's.... Though with all backroads strafing, I wore them out at 18K on the clock (6K of that was the OE before I pulled them off).... So, 12K for me but my wingman had 48-50K on his OE cuz he used to go Cross Country a lot...

You CAN see the pads with a mirror and light... There is a groove cut into them, down the center, and when that groove is gone there is 2MM or so left and should be replaced. I always replace well in advance of that cuz I use the brakes harder than most...