Last week the front brakes in my wife's Jetta started making some noise and I knew the pads hadn't been changed......EVER. At about 65,000 miles one of the rear pads disintegrated and I changed those and at that time I checked the front pads, which had nearly 3/4" of meat left on the pad. So I didn't worry about them until they started making noise a few days ago. I kept procrasinating as to when I was going to change them, but finally Sunday night they started grinding so I HAD to change them right away. So I took the afternoon off of work, got the pads, and swapped them out. The inside driver's side pad was the one grinding, the other three pads had probably 1/8" left on them.............after 127,000 miles......and they were the ORIGINAL pads the car came with new. Talk about some life!!!
