Excessive brake wear - 2018 Max

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Zig10

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Did the rear pads around 25k miles, but not surprised since I tow a pretty heavy boat with it.

Fronts look just fine. Definitely a bias to the rears on these vehicles.
 

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Good morning. Have any of you had excessive brake wear on your Max? My 2018 is in the shop now and dealer is telling me that my pads and rotors need replaced. I got 34,000 miles on them. Prior to that I got about 50,000. This is for the front. I had to replace the rear around 43,000. Thanks
My rears went first at 54000.....2018 limited.......One side needed a rotor as the inside pad was completely gone..Did it myselfe for less than $200 including 1 rotor..Electronic parking brake was the only tricky part but you tube is your friend.
 

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I went with Hawk LTS pads. Not only is the compound better but the pad contact area is much larger for the rears. I’ve got about 5000 miles on them now and just looking through the rim I can see they haven’t really worn much more than 1 or 2mm’s. Stock and Hawk thickness is about 10mm on a new pad for reference. The braking power is also much, much better. It’s was so much better that I right away did the fronts after feeling the rears but didn’t see as much of an improvement since the contact area is the same. F150’s have the same rear pads and small contact area as Expeditions when you spec the electronic parking brake calipers. They also only go to the full backing plate of the pad housing with material if you go with the severe duty pads. Unfortunately, FORD only offers a severe duty pad for F150’s and not Expeditions although they do fit. I’d just go with the Hawks. Tire Rack sells them pretty cheap and easy to do in the driveway or for a local repair shop.
 

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My 2018 rear pads were replaced as recommended by dealer at 30k miles. At 74k miles I had the rear brakes replaced a second time (they were at 1mm). Both times dealer turned rotors.
My front pads are at 6mm and have never been replaced going on 75k miles.
I do use adaptive cruise control at times and infrequently pull a boat. Most of my driving would be classified as city driving.
I continue to have dealer service vehicle using OEM pads.
 

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In my '18 my front pads have never been replaced and are at around 6mm. My rear pads, however, were replaced at around 38k miles, and are down to around 5mm at ~77k miles.
 

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