Da Hapa

37,000 miles of freeway driving and the Lexus dealer is telling me that my rear brakes are nearly shot. I've got 70% left on the fronts but only 25% on the rears.

Since the car is front engine/rear wheel drive that sounds very odd to me. But I'm no expert.

The technician told me that the EBD on the GS and IS sedans is causing both models to use the rear brakes faster than the fronts.

Has anyone else heard of this? Does that sound reasonable?

Your thoughts/advice are greatly appreciated.

Beachtyme

iTrader: (1)

While the front of the car carries most of the weight (engine), the rear pads are tiny and it wouldn't surprise me if yours wore down quickly.

flipside909

Wow that's interesting. I'm at 30,600 miles on my 11.5 month old 2004 IS. I should take a better look at the rears to see what kind of lifespan i'm looking at. Just had the 30k service done 600 miles ago so i'll have to check the paperwork to see the percentages.

rominl

iTrader: (4)

yeah i have heard about rear pads going quite a bit faster than the front, i have no idea why. but things happen, just change them, i think it's ok

silveraltezza

resurrect an old thread -

Had my 40k done recently - the lexus techs told me I had 85-90% left on my brake pads - this with a mixture of highway/street and occassional monthly cruise up in the mountains . Probably telling me I'm not driving the car hard enough .