Rear Brake Life

Curious if anyone knows how much difference there is between front and rear brake life?

I replaced my fronts at 55k and now I’m at 76k and the rear has not been replaced yet. I need to tow a 6000 pound trailer and I’m wondering if I should proactively replace the rears? I thought most 4 disk systems wear out evenly between front and rear?

 

Not sure, I thought it just depends on driving habits. I’m at 83,000 and have towed a 6-7000 lb trailer about 10,000 of those miles. Still have around 5mm left all the way around.

 

I'm at 109,000 and still haven't replaced my rears. I tow my 3500lb travel trailer around, but it has its own brakes.

I imagine its getting close to time.

 

I'm at 50, replaced the fronts once, and last checked the rears were at 8mm

 

I tow about 6000 lbs. and had to replace my front at 37,000 but the rears were fine.

 

The front tires do most of the braking, so those pads wear out faster. it's that way on most if not all cars.

 

I had a 2007 land cruiser that had good life on both front and rear pads, but I noticed that the rear pad wear was higher than I would have expected relative to the front. Reading up on it a bit, I found that the land cruiser had some type of "balancing" mechanism that recruited the rear brakes more heavily to balance the wear and the braking force. I have no idea if the Tundra has the same system, but it made the wear higher in the rear than you'd think.

 

My Camry has the same thing. I have always done my brakes myself and I was amazed that the rears would wear out faster than the fronts.

 

Generally your rear brakes will wear slower then your front brakes. You could always pull the wheel/tire off and visual inspect the brakes to get a rough idea of how much more life they have before needing to be replaced.

 

Thanks for the replies everyone! I was just being lazy and more curious if it was a 2:1 ratio or so with the brakes. Looks like I got another 3 mm on the rears. Should be enough to tow this summer.