Rear brake pads?

[BigBird05]

How many miles are on the rear pads? Are you sure they need replacing or do you just want to do it for piece of mind for your daughter. I have 212,000 miles on my Yukon and believe the rear pads are original. I know I bought the Yukon at 130,000 mi. and I haven't had to replace either fronts or backs.

[1976gmc20]

Originally Posted by BigBird05

How many miles are on the rear pads? Are you sure they need replacing or do you just want to do it for piece of mind for your daughter. I have 212,000 miles on my Yukon and believe the rear pads are original. I know I bought the Yukon at 130,000 mi. and I haven't had to replace either fronts or backs.

I have no idea since I just bought the pickup used. The truck itself has 183K. It has a gooseneck ball in the bed so I assume it was used for towing something fairly heavy, and maybe parked the rest of the time since the mileage is fairly low for 2002.

The shop said the rear pads were getting thin when I had it in to get a bunch of baseline maintenance. They wanted to replace rotors too but I don't see anything wrong with them. I looked and stuck my finger through the holes in the wheels, and the surface looks and feels pretty good to me. I figure she can probably make it okay 1600 miles back to MI running empty, but she should definitely install the pads before she tows her gooseneck horse trailer that she just bought to replace the wrecked bumper pull.


But, yeah ... I don't think I've ever replaced the rear brakes on any pickup that I've owned - except the 89 K1500 that had no rear brakes working at all when I bought it. Turned out the left side wasn't put together right or something, and all the pieces were all out of place and chewed up. I still don't have a parking brake on it because I need to find a lever at a salvage yard since they don't make that part anymore.