2017 PLATINUM EL BRAKES LASTING 7500 MILES!!!

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mbtech2003

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Switch to power stop ceramic pads. I’ve got 50k miles on my set and their half worn now. I do a lot of towing and they do squeak a little when first cold. But hold up wonderful.
Josh.

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Are the pads being installed incorrectly? If you look at the pads above, you’ll see there are two round bumps on one of the pads. We had a customer come in with dragging brakes. It happened to be that the inside pad was swapped for the outside pad. This would cause the caliper to get bound up on the slides and not release fully.
 

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I would jack up the front wheels and see if they roll easy or if they feel like the brakes are applied. The truck we ran into, every few applications of the brakes they would hold hard enough that you couldn’t turn them by hand. The customers only complaint was an odor of brakes when parked.
 

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Unfortunately, the pads that have been discarded tell the story.....it could be the proportional valve assembly keeping pressure on the system causing the calipers to drag...of if the pads are glazed, she's impersonating Mario and needs to allow more time to stop....quite common female trait....bring that puppy in for a landing at 65mph at the red light, then bind 'em up to stop!

FYI- glazing or glassing of the pads indicates HARD stopping, more than once....continual stopping like this will warp the rotors by superheating them beyond their ability to shed the heat load......

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Since there are hills involved, try to get her to use the full range of gears available in M and not to put truck in D before reaching flat ground to use engine braking. 3 tons of truck is a lot for pads to slow up
 

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For many years we lived at 9 thousand foot elevation and drove to roughly eight thousand foot elevation within four miles every time we left the driveway. Down to 6000 if we went to town. 4 Expeditions and only had brake work once on each. As others have said, it's her.

And has she ever used lower gears for descending? We were occasionally able to get down to the highway without touching the brakes until we got to the stop sign.

As for fast driving, I often am passed multiple times by the same speeder. Most have no idea how to make good time. I'll pass them at stoplights they've raced to as it turns green, other tricks of experience.
 

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I would blame the wife. I bought my Expedition used in May 2015. The dealership had just done the front brakes; no idea when the rear brakes were done. I have put 42K miles on it since and my brakes are still good all around. Meanwhile, my wife has driven about the same miles in that time period and has gone through 2 sets of fronts and 1 set of rears in a Mazda that weighs about half what my truck weighs. Moreover, I'm running Motorcraft stock parts and she's running premium pads and rotors.
 
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