I have an 09 LS and I just changed the front pads out at 153,000. After looking at them I think that I could've gotten maybe another 10 or 15K. Since I already had the parts and the wheels off I decided to go ahead and change them. I also have the 5 speed with ABS.

 

Mine is an Auto with ABS. Driving was mostly country roads blacktop with 40% in town with two down shift and hard brake downhill each day. 63 mile round trip daily.

 

56000 09 1LT no adjustments or trouble of any kind

 

Just put new tires on have maybe 5000 miles left on pads over 63000 miles on tires

 

I got almost 70 out of mine. For what its worth my brother has 120k on his original pads on his Sierra. My mom got 130 on her original Honda pilot brakes. Different drivers will see different results.

 

I just did the rear brakes on my ‘06. It has a tad over 150,000 miles on it. The return spring on the passenger side rear broke and started causing the rear wheel to drag a lot.

I don’t really know how long it was a problem, we just got the car this spring so I don’t know its history.

The drivers side shoes were over 50% as compared to the new ones but the lead shoe on the passenger side was almost to the metal the drag shoe on that side looked like the ones on the drivers side.

I have my doubts that what I took off was original.

Since I was messing around with the brakes anyway I took the front tires off and looked at the pads. The rotors look smooth and shiny like new ones with no grooves to speak of and the pads look near new. The inside ones look a bit thinner than the outer ones to me but both look to be in very good condition to me.

 

I just turned 104 000. on my HHR. I am very surprised that I am getting this kind of mileage \ and I am sure that I won't get this on the replacements

See ya down the road
Bud - Harvey

 

The "return spring" is actually part of the "self-adjuster", not the pullback mechanism. The "pull-back" function is handled by the horse shoe shaped hold-down spring, that's why they call it a Universal Spring. Not to say that it will not cause problems, just clarifying definitions. And, the replacement small spring (what us old folks call the return spring) is different from the OEM and is installed into the other hole of the shoe, it will break, or look like it, if installed to the same hole as the factory sent it out. That might explain the lop-sided wear pattern.

 

Ok wrong terminology on my part it was the big horseshoe shaped spring that broke on the lead shoe side. That short part of broken spring was loose in there and causing occasional problems and the lead shoe was not able to fully release so it wore more than the other shoe.

The MPG is slightly improved since the repair just as I had hoped. The first tank we burned got us a pretty dismal 24.8 miles per gallon. The second tank did little better but we did take longer trips but still under the 30 MPG I had been hoping for.

This last tank worked out to right at 30 MPG of course it was mostly me driving on that last tank too. For whatever reason I can usually beat any of the other drivers here when it comes to getting the best MPG on any of our cars.

My wife says its because I am the one doing the math when it comes to figuring the MPG but I always offer her the gas receipts and the odometer readings I use to calculate to let her try to figure it out so she gets the better MPG than me.

 

88,000+ on the original brakes on my '06 LT1 2.4L auto HHR. Still looking good.