disposable brake rotors?

[YenkoYS-199Stinger]

I had a 2001 Chevy 2500HD that I finally put rear brakes on at 220k miles. When I sold the truck at 230k miles it still had the original front brakes. I did however cut all 4 rotors at approx. 100k due to warpage.

My 2005 2500HD now has 130K. I cut the front rotors at 100K due to very slight warpage. The pucks on all 4 corners still look great.

There is way more than enough meat on the HD rotors to cut them several times. Don't know about the 1/2 tons.

I am not the easiest on the brakes by far and tow the car trailer quite a bit.

[bad1racing]

I have a 2005 2500HD 6.0 4x4 crew-cab short box with 47K on it and every tire rotation at 5000 miles I do a visual on the pads.So far 3/4 of the pads are still there.
We have had customers in the dealership that can't get 15K out of their pads.
Kendall

[x Baldwin Motion]

I am NOT rough on equipment. I got 105,000 out of rear shoes two trucks ago and 70,000 on the last trucks rear pads. There has to be a reason why GM went back to drum brakes on these trucks.

[Xplantdad]

$$$$, that's why

[47Hammer]

Wow! I feel lucky too, I've got my '01 Tahoe LT 2X4 with the AutoRide option, so I can tow the boat and every time I have an oil service our tech says the brakes and fine with 45% still to go. Oh and we have 106 K miles on it too. Amazing.

[Xplantdad]

Yeah...go figure. '03 1500 Chevy truck....100,000 miles with 4 wheel disc brakes...and still had 60% on the original brakes when I traded it in. New '07 Silverado LT (front discs and rear drums)....had to replace the right front rotor at 3,000 miles and now I believe the front disc are both warped!

I asked the service manager why Chevy did the switcheroo...and he said it saved them a few bucks....

Other than the brake problem...I love the new truck

[Keith Tedford]

Rear discs in salt country aren't such a good idea it seems.