Just had my truck in for brakes (41K miles) and......
It was pretty painful. Total cost was $1700 and change (tax included). Was all new brake pads, and rotors all around. This is the first that any work was done on the front brakes, and the 2nd time for the rears. I got 22K miles out of my rears the first go round, and could have probably gotten another 1 to 2k this go round, but the dealer suggested I do all 4 now, as he could not state that the sensors wouldn't simply go off in a week or so, causing me to return to the dealer for the rest of the job. He gave me 15% off doing them all now, which saved me nearly $300. Still expensive, and even so, I still love the truck. It's a 2010, and we have purchased it out from the 3 year lease we started out with this past June. It drives like new, and won't need new tires for a year. I figured I could get a 2013, but why. It would not really do anything that our 2010 does, and now I have new brakes.
Oh, our vehicle does not get driven in a big city much (i.e., Chicago, Twincities, Milwaukee, etc.) so we don't see that much "stop and go" type traffic from congestion. Just a normal mix of about 50/50 hwy and around town with lights and normal stops. For what it's worth, our previous vehicle BMW X5, needed all new brakes at 44K. Unlike the LR, BMW replaced them under warranty (part of their maintenance included program).
Cheers,
Joe
Welcome to the land of the **** poor brakes & rotors life. They set us up good for this as no vehicle should have to replace rotors at 12k. They did the same thing to me. I am only averaging about 15k for pads and less than 30k for rotors. The only way to lessen this is to learn how to do it yourself. NO other way to drive this vehicle but to just drive it. Some of the guys on these posts get very good life out of theirs but i swear they must be driving on highways 95% of the time. If you are a city driver with lots of red lights, you are done!. However as i always say, i love my beast regardless.
It was pretty painful. Total cost was $1700 and change (tax included). Was all new brake pads, and rotors all around. This is the first that any work was done on the front brakes, and the 2nd time for the rears. I got 22K miles out of my rears the first go round, and could have probably gotten another 1 to 2k this go round, but the dealer suggested I do all 4 now, as he could not state that the sensors wouldn't simply go off in a week or so, causing me to return to the dealer for the rest of the job. He gave me 15% off doing them all now, which saved me nearly $300. Still expensive, and even so, I still love the truck. It's a 2010, and we have purchased it out from the 3 year lease we started out with this past June. It drives like new, and won't need new tires for a year. I figured I could get a 2013, but why. It would not really do anything that our 2010 does, and now I have new brakes.
Oh, our vehicle does not get driven in a big city much (i.e., Chicago, Twincities, Milwaukee, etc.) so we don't see that much "stop and go" type traffic from congestion. Just a normal mix of about 50/50 hwy and around town with lights and normal stops. For what it's worth, our previous vehicle BMW X5, needed all new brakes at 44K. Unlike the LR, BMW replaced them under warranty (part of their maintenance included program).
Cheers,
Joe