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Originally Posted by Shaneajanderson
Not only unsafe, but also needlessly hard on the vehicle. I rag on my wife for this behavior, but I think I finally convinced her when our last van needed new brake pads at 70k miles (and it looked like they had been replaced once before already, we didn't buy it new), while meanwhile my F150 has 199k on the factory brakes, which are still fine.
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So true. My Insight has 265k on what I think are the second set of brake pads since new. Still have about half life on them. Shouldn't have to worry about it for a long time down the road, since I don't use the brakes all that much. Heck, back when I had the hybrid system installed, I literally didn't use the brakes at all above 10 mph since I had the regen switch for max regen.