How Many Miles on Trailer Disc Brakes Do You Get

Had the pads on my trailer changed a couple months ago... They had roughly 500k miles on them and the mechanic said they still had life left...

 

Like always, depends on the driver.

At the cost of rotor replacement, do it early

 

truck I recently bought had just shy of a million on it, they had changed the pads somewhat recently and said they had lots of life left. was an OTR tractor

 

Depends on the useage, how often you hit salt, if you ever smoked them, if something wore out or broke and a million other things. Lowest i have seen is 25K best ive heard of is 1 million. I would GUESS a healthy average is likely 250K at which time i myself would replace them out of paronia. And id do the rotors as well at 250k and do them and the calipers period at 500k.

With brakes better safe then colorado mass murder event 2.0. Also for refrence i got about 150k per set of discs. But my jake is also #### and just an 8% grade requires me to be in 4th gear with 80k on for the jake to hold it....and that is after upgradeing it.

 

should there be much difference in brake life? from tractor to trailer?

 

I changed them on my last trailer at 540,000 and they had probably close to 50% life. I had the pads already so I went ahead and changed them.