New rotors and pads

[Transporter]

The youngest of my old cars is a 96 Volvo 850 with 350,000km. The disks were machined to get rid of the ridge left where the disk hasn't been touched by the pad and they are still above the minimum thckness.

Most of the others were Australian and I have never put new rotors on any of them, even with machining at every pad change that used to be the norm.

I had a Volvo 760 that was on about 450,000km when I bought it for $1200. I did over 90,000km extra on that with no problems of rotors requiring changing and that car was completely neglected when I bought it. It only died due to corrosion in the aluminium engine and water pump, not due to any problems with the brakes, which were always brilliant in my opinion.

Different cars, different drivers and driving conditions will affect how long your rotors last. The same is for the tyres.

[BobD]

My point is that on all of my cars I have had many pad changes over the years but never a rotor change due to wear. Seems excessive to have to change rotors every second set of pads or anywhere near 100,000km, which is barely run in!!

Anyway, I intend to keep the Multivan for a long time so I will find out for myself how long the rotors last at some stage. At least driving in Perth we don't have as many stops and starts as Sydney and Melbourne and the traffic usually flows pretty freely.

[Transporter]

My point is that on all of my cars I have had many pad changes over the years but never a rotor change due to wear. Seems excessive to have to change rotors every second set of pads or anywhere near 100,000km, which is barely run in!!

Anyway, I intend to keep the Multivan for a long time so I will find out for myself how long the rotors last at some stage. At least driving in Perth we don't have as many stops and starts as Sydney and Melbourne and the traffic usually flows pretty freely.

Mate you will probably get 100,000km from your pads and more from the rotors, like I said different drivers different life from brakes and tyres.