RevyJKU08

Been lucky so far...with my pads, but I think it helps a little having the 6speed to downshift.

I know all my other vehicles...I usually went through 2 front pads to every 1 rear pads....as I thought 70% of your braking power was from your front pads & rotors.

JKJeremy

just replaced mine at around 40k as well....rears were down to the feelers, fronts had plenty left but replaced anyway.....i have a 6-speed as well and i'm pretty sure wayoflife does too so i don't think that saves you anything with regards to the braking at least for everyday highway driving...

donnie

FWIW, just had the rears on the DW s car done and they only had 31 K on them.
According to the shop, everything checked out fine with them.

wharthog69

28k on ours before it had to have rear brakes. I was shocked - I'm used to getting 60k. This time though, it isn't just a Jeep thing - my brother has a Chrysler mini-van and a Sebring and he says both of them are the same way.

sampson

Thank heavens for this board. I thought i was losing my mind. Never have i seen a vehicle take out the rear pads first. 44k on the odometer. so i guess i was lucky after reading the posts. thanks to all for clearing my logic. And big thanks for enabling me to knock out at Teraflex 2.5 lift in a few hours time.

TORN

What have you all been replacing them with? OEM or aftermarket?

sampson

i went with Duralast cmax gold ceramics, parked the jeep til the weekend when ill have time to drag her into the garage and do it. 60 bucks and lifetime replacement and based on the posts i will again and again and again. Free from here on in, well maybe

mcgeeusmc20

I disabled my ESP because of this.

Wubicon

Keep in mind that the $60 lifetime pads will eventually eat through your $160/pair rotors before they are worn out.

Those lifetime pads are very hard, and don't stop as well when you really need them to. Most don't see this because when they are in a panic braking situation they looking at other things than the performance of the pad.

If they stop in time, they feel everything is ok. If they don't its usually the "situations" fault and not the substandard equipment they bought to save a few dollars.

Day to day you probably won't notice a difference, until its time to buy rotors or avoid a crash.

Stock Jeep pads stop well, and the system is engineered to this "known quantity". Some aftermarket pads offer a more aggressive bite, and that can be good or bad depending.

I use Hawk pads on my cars with more simple brake systems, but on the Jeep I'll stay with OE.

mowbizz

Yes, I agree with disabling it...in reading my manual it says you can disable the ESP by holding the switch down for 5 seconds...shouldn't anyone going off road be doing this anyway?
When I'm wheeling I would not want the computer diagnosing and adjusting to my instinctive driving skills anyway.
The manual describes all the driving 4wd/2wd modes and some of them automatically disable the ESP. I'll have to look that up again.