2003 Grand Caravan fronts disk brakes

"jdoe" > wrote in message
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> Sorry I don't buy it. My wife STANDS on the brakes and JUMPS back on the
> gas and has no idea how to drive smoootly. Yet I get no problems (other
> than grief form her from time to time) ;-) Either way if you're having
> that many issues I'd look into drive style or quality of your replacement
> parts. Hell I even tried the Chinese rotors just for fun and didn't have
> problems.
> Larry
> "RWM" > wrote in message
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>> High_Density wrote:
>>> "cosza" > wrote in message
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>>>>I took the Van for service today. The dealer called me and said that my
>>>>fronts disks and pad are 5%, basically finished. The milage is only
>>>>31000
>>>
>>> Km
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>>>>(19375 miles). Seems kind of soon for this. What is everybody out there
>>>>experiencing.
>>>
>>>
>>> Good grief! Get your left foot off the brake pedal! I have 47000 on my
>>> original 2002 disks and will probably get 60000 km out of them just like
>>> I
>>> did on my 2000 which had smaller front disk brakes. You should perhaps
>>> look
>>> at your driving style. I suspect there may be a problem there.
>>>
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>> In our case, we twice got over 40K on Honda Accord front pads, and I have
>> gotten over 40K on Datsun 2000 Roadster front pads, driven hard.
>>
>> By contrast, we got only 20K on the GC's brakes and only 37K on the
>> rotors. It's not all driving style, by a long shot. It's a heavy
>> vehicle, marginal brake capacity and junk rotors, too.
>
Just changed my 2004 vans front pads today with ceramic pads. Reason; too
much brake dust!. Found they were about 60% gone in 24,000 miles. This is
the direction I would recommend.

Richard.