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Originally Posted by Frank Lee
My '94 F150 still has the factory brakes, except for some of the hard brake lines. Use them sparingly and they last forever.
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I suppose it depends on how you drive, but this strikes me as bad advice. My Fit has 91K miles and the original brakes all around - including the front pads. I'm changing pads and rotors, and having the brake system flushed with fresh fluid. Even though all of those parts would still pass PA state inspection, I think it's time.
Why do I think it's time? I commute in the car, on high speed freeways, surrounded by 60-ton semis and lunatics in Lexuses who for some reason think that cutting in front of me will get them to work sooner (what is so important about getting to work sooner anyway?). I've needed those brakes in the past; rarely, but when I needed them I
needed them. A car can't last a million miles if it's all squished up. Neither can I for that matter!
So on go the new parts. Necessary or just feel-good, it won't make no never mind to me so long as that pedal on the floor does its duty the next time I find myself needing to stab it.
(Now that I think about this a bit more, a Honda Fit might make a fine candidate for a million mile car. Easy on gas, easy on consumables, skillions sold worldwide, mad crazy mod culture yo (which translates to all sorts of upgraded parts availability), and the engine is being used for a spec formula car series so there are all kinds of beefed up internals available. Hmmmm.)