:yeahthat:
To be fair, the supplier didn't specifically mention brake pads. He just said that 20,000 miles was a reasonable service life for the quality of parts supplied by his company (shop4parts). I extrapolated from this that it would be necessary to change them at 15,000 miles to avoid a catastrophic failure.
It is a very disappointing stance, especially from a supplier I had previously recommended here as trustworthy.
If you were to change your ball joints at 15'000 it would mean you'ld have to do it nealy every year? and that can't be right surely?
just for a bit of balance - i had two lower wishbones fail on the rubber bush last year from euro car parts, the first one lasted a few months then i exchanged it for the same part, that lasted a couple of weeks (both times i got severe brake shudder), in the end i put down a few quid more (£10-15 if memory serves) and got a birth (i think thats the name) and its been on there ever since (35k miles since change),
i gave them both the once over last week when changing my suspension both the arms are fine atm.
it is wise to invest in a slightly more expensive named part from my experiance, these companys have reputations to uphold thus they put thier name on the items.
saying that though i did have a 1 year old bosch batttery fail last month only after 9 months use so even the best have issues sometimes.