Originally Posted by amascio

My wife's '11 Platinum has 50k miles on it and the last time I rotated the tires (45k) the pads and rotors were fine. Most of the miles are highway though with no towing; it's her personal vehicle. I'm sure this has something to do with it.

Originally Posted by gobucks

Thanks for all your responses. What a great forum. I intend to read up on all the links that were provided. We're in NE Ohio so the roads see plenty of winter salt which may be contributing to this problem. I'm just having a hard time getting my head around why this F150 is having this problem and my other trucks that drive in the same conditions have never had an issue with the slides gunking up or with material transfering improperly from the pads to the rotors.

Is 20,000-30,000 normal brake life on these trucks?

THANKS!

Originally Posted by Jakeman68

I work at a Ford Dealer and if you have a vibration when braking, that is covered for 3 years or 36000 miles. There is no way cleaning the pads will get rid of a vibration.

Originally Posted by mbullock

It is great that the dealer you work at, actually considers that warranty. Not many do. My local dealer considers brakes a wear item after 1 year...in fact the dealer i work at now, was a former Lincoln/Mercury dealer, and did the same.

Originally Posted by Popps

Depends where you live I'm sure but up her in Canada and particularly in my region where they use tons of salt on the road in winter the problem is that the slider pins get gunked up and seize. This means that when you brake only one pad is actually applying pressure, or worse yet they seize such that one pad is always dragging.

I typically take my breaks apart every couple years and lube the sliders and this is sufficient. My dealer tried to charge me $250 for said service the other day and I told him to **** off and I'd handle it.....their price is stupid for what they're doing, though there is reason to service the brakes in my area more often than doing actual pad/rotor replacement.

I had an old Buick with 4 wheels disks and the rear sliders would seize every year!! Damn salt.....