Let me start off to say I have an 05x, drive it all year and drive somewhat mother-f like, even in the winter. I replaced my brakes with pretty good ceramic brakes from NAPA maybe like 19000 mi and 2 winters ago. Now one or more is warped and driving me crazy and my bet is that the vdc killed it from this past winter. For anyone else who drives fast all year, do you get more life out of your rotors than this, if so what rotors do you have?

 

6 months.

 

^ Are your rotors made of wood? 6 months!?

 

I would imagine quality rotors would last atleast 30k miles if driven passively.

 

How do you drive your car?

 

most should last least 30k. even with the poor early g35 brake design, 30k-50k.

 

Rotors or brake pads ???
Pads don't have a time frame they wear depending on how much you use them .
If u drive a whole lot ,of course your pads will wear faster
Rotors are probably warped from driving so hard on your brakes
Slow downnnn lol

 

lol... yeah might just be my driving style. There is rarely a day that goes by where I don't hit 85 in this car and during the worst winter days, I still go 60+ when I can break through the crowds on the freeway (X ftw). Does that give you a more accurate picture?

 

Passively = granny style?

 

I get about 25K miles on the 03 sedan with some auto-x events thrown in there. That's roughly 2.5 years for me.

The key to rotor longevity is proper rotor and pad bedding.

 

well then mine might not be too bad...

 

I've changed my front rotors twice since 2003. I have 61K miles.

 

I've done my front rotors 3 times in the past 4 years. Did the fronts last september, and they're warped again already. I don't use the cheap rotors, and I just replaced all 4 calipers in September. Gonna change the fronts out again with some slotted and see if that helps keep them from warping, if not, I'm just going to start stopping with my feet...

I should note that I hardly use my brakes, and never slam on them or drive crazy. I do however do a lot of highway driving, and 4 times out of the 10 times I use them each day are slowing down/stopping while coming off the freeway.

If anyone has any ideas on what I could do to fix the problem for good, that would be great...

2003 Sedan 5AT

 

Sounds like your not breaking them in properly ^^

 

I still have the stock rotors with no problems at all ..... I have an 03.5 with 68k