How many Km's are you getting on Civic front and rear brakes ?

A little survey.

Approx how many kms are people getting on factory front disc brakes and
rear drums late model Civics.

So far I'm at 62,000 Kms and still on the originals front and back,
smooth as can be.

I just changed my front pads and rotors on my Chrysler van at only
42,000,...just horrible !!!!

Sean.

 

I had about 65,000 miles on the first of pads on a Chrysler Town & Countyr
van, traded in the van at 120,000 miles without changing pads again. Never
changed the rear shoes.

 

I changed over my front pad/disk at 66,000km for performance stuff. At
the time, the disk was still mint and the pads were at 50%.

Pars
98 DX Hatch (standard tranny)

 

Despite the Federal government's attempts to get us consumers to
convert,we in the US STILL use the statute mile as the unit of
distance........I cannot answer your question as I REFUSE to do a
Metric/English conversion when I encounter queries such as yours.Unless
you work in a scientific discipline,I as a US citizen AM PROUD of the
fact that we go our own way and thumb our nose at the rest of the
world.Km's be damned......I refuse as a CONSUMER to be part of it.I also
like the fact we still use US (yes,say it {US!!!!!}) gallons at our fuel
delivery pumps too.Enough of the world brainwash lockstepping!!!! Sorry
about this off topic posting,but I am tired of seeing this.End of
ranting now.

 

How interesting.

 

Dude, I think you meant to post this to rec.autos.makers.honda.us - the OP
is in Canada, and probably can't even see your post at all.

Say it with me now, BOHICA!

 

....holding hand to head in L shape,...........LOSER !!!!

 

SaH wrote:
----"...holding hand to head in L shape,...........
LOSER!!!!"----

Reply:
Why?Because on a practical everyday level I and a LOT of people refuse
to go metric?! So,be it then! I like the distinction that the US is a
MAVERICK culture and does not change JUST because the rest of the world
does.Just because YOU do it I should have to also? Baloney! Where it is
necessary I DO use metric(I use it at work because the machine I work on
is designed metrically)......but that does not mean I have to like it!

 

No, because you choose to rant about it in response to a legit question on
an *international* newsgroup.

This is the _world_ online, not the US.

 

Well,I KNOW it is an international newsgroup.However,people who post
here and ask questions should realize that the US is PART of the
international community! As such,when they pose a question with ONLY one
measurement standard and expect an answer they limit themselves as to
response in my opinion.If they are going to pose a question such as this
(on an international forum I might add) they should CONSIDER both
standards in their question(s).By way of example,when you watch CNN
International (CNN ƒn) weathercasts they give BOTH temperature
readings in the Fahrenheit scale as well as Celsius.The question poser
may be more comfortable with his metrics because he grew up with it,but
that does not mean everbody is.
I am just saying Canadians should be more universal too........give BOTH
standards in your questions.

 

True, but what percentage of the group is global and what percentage is
U.S. based? My guesstimate would be about 97% U.S. and 3% global. And
that may be overestimating the global participation.

 

I would have guessed closer to your numbers a year ago.

Lately I think the breakdown is more like

70% U.S. non-Texas
15% Canada
10% Texas (because the main relay problem shows up esp. in hot climates!)
5% British and "other"

Because of all the Canadians, I'm now pretty used to quickly multiplying about
0.6 times any kilometer figure mentioned here to get miles.

I'll only post metric if the original poster used metric.

My 91 Civic got 43k miles (= 69k km) on its first OEM front brake pads. This was
after a fair amount of Western mountain driving. The next pair (non-OEM) lasted
85k miles (= 137k km).

The rear brake shoes have been replaced once, at 112k miles (= 181k km).

 

....or you can do what any other average human would do,..ignore the post
if you don't like it,..just like Im now doing to you. Killfile,..bye bye.

 

Wow, thats pretty good for the rears !!

 

The shop that did them said they were "all the way down."

But I thought on some cars the braking relied more heavily on the front than the
back.

My inspection last week of front and rears at 154k miles continues to support
this notion.

 

Well, they all do.
But since the F and R brakes are different sizes....see?

 

Tee-hee.
I hope he's not suggesting we should dumb-down the math in posts for
Americans....

 

I surrender! Good grief,I just wanted to express some mild irritation
with a relatively trivial issue.
I quit! If I see metric,I will DUTIFULLY perform all the necessary
conversions from now on.It is not that big a deal...........sorry.

 

You are mistaken. The Civic has bad brake, and the the back is the worst of the
industry. That's why it last so long.

 

He asked how many of his measurement units people were getting.
I replied in my measurement units. I didn't need to do conversions.