Member Since: 08 Nov 2005
Location: Oldbury, WM
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brake pad wear rates
My motor has just cleared 28k miles from new, so as I was putting my winter alloys on this morning I thought I get some pads in hand so that if they needed changing I'd do it whilst the rims were off. I was surprised to see the front pads only about half worn but the rears down to about 3mm. I have changed the rears, left the fronts for now. Pretty sure both my D3's and previous D4 went through front pads quicker than rears.
Ah well
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28th Oct 2017 12:03 pm
Jubbly
Member Since: 20 Nov 2016
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I would expect the fronts to wear out faster as they do upto 75% of the breaking.Jaguar I-Pace HSE imminent.
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28th Oct 2017 12:19 pm
al cope
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Me too which is why I was surprised to see how worn the rears were.
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Old - MY12 D4 SDV6 XS Auto - Ipanema Sand with Almond Leather - Plus other niceties, and D4.com sticker
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Rears were changed first on mine at second service, not surprising when you see the size of them compared to the fronts. In fact the last three LR’s I’ve had, the rears were changed first.
28th Oct 2017 3:53 pm
al cope
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Location: Oldbury, WM
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fair enough - so maybe not just mine then
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Gone - MY18 D5 HSE - Corris on 22's with Black Pack
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Old - MY12 D4 SDV6 XS Auto - Ipanema Sand with Almond Leather - Plus other niceties, and D4.com sticker
Older - D3 TDV6 XS Auto - Lugano Teal with Almond Leather, 20" Stormers, Shiny Tailpipes, DVD/TV - and obligatory D3 sticker
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28th Oct 2017 5:00 pm
BAZ8046
Member Since: 26 Feb 2010
Location: Chatham
Posts: 280
Same here, always have to change the rears first.
The rear pads don’t work as hard but are much smaller so wear out quicker.
Just changed the rear pads on the D3 yesterday as they were down to 3mm.
The fronts fitted at the same time are only half worn.D4 2016 Landmark, Waitomo Grey.
D3 2005 HSE, Bonatti Grey, now sold but still comes back for servicing.
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28th Oct 2017 5:16 pm
waterbuoy
Member Since: 26 Oct 2013
Location: Argyll
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Hmmn, on SWMBO's D4 the rear pads wear quicker than the front, whereas on my D3 it is the front pads which wear more quickly.Currently 2009 Disco 3 SE, 2013 MY D4 HSE and 2016 D4 SE
Previously:
TD5 Defender 110 CSW (230k miles)
300TDi Disco 1 (289k)
4 RR Classics (300-350k each, 2 manual, 2 auto)
110 V8 CSW (220k)
S3 109 hi cap pickup (ex RN)
S2A 88 Safari SW with lpg conversion (bloody lethal)
28th Oct 2017 7:19 pm
Disco_Mikey
Member Since: 29 May 2007
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Rear pads do more braking On a D4, as the front brakes are much, much bigger than that on the D3 My D3 Build Thread
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Makes sense and how I think about it I have Brembo’s on the front of the D3 so bigger discs and pads as well.D4 2016 Landmark, Waitomo Grey.
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29th Oct 2017 11:37 am
Brian_DL13
Member Since: 25 Aug 2013
Location: Teesdale
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I've just done the 2nd all-round pad replacement at 60k miles. The rear LHS (the one without a wear sensor! ) was to one to go on both occasions.
I also replaced the rear discs, but the front discs look to have enough life left to last till the next pad change - fingers x (first time round I replaced all 4 discs, but I reckon I was being overcautious for the front ones.)
29th Oct 2017 1:47 pm
JR36
Member Since: 30 May 2014
Location: GLOUCESTERSHIRE
Posts: 5
Rear pad wear
My 2012 D4 now at 96k and about to have 4th set of rear pads. My experience is about 25k for rears and 35k for fronts on mix of rural A and B roads. As others have said rears much smaller than fronts on D4. Wear sensor useless as it's always near side rear which is worst and sensor on offside!
2nd Nov 2017 10:24 pm
dlgis
Member Since: 02 Oct 2015
Location: Tunbridge Wells
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Ive done 22k in my D4 since i bought it and dont think the oads were recently changed when i got it. Rears are around half worn. Still planning to replace in next 3 months though as discs will need changing soonish.D4 GS 12MY
My 2015 is in for its second service today, having done 25k. The dealer has just said my rear pads need doing... to be honest, I thought it was a usual dealer need-to-charge-for-something, but having read this, maybe it is a genuine requirement. ho-hum.....
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) was to one to go on both occasions.
(first time round I replaced all 4 discs, but I reckon I was being overcautious for the front ones.)
