Originally Posted by ///AIRDAM

My local dealer is $149 an hour for labor, so whatever it took you to do it, or whatever the book says the job pays, is what you would expect to pay in labor. Front and rear rotors and pads likely pays the dealer 1.5 hours. Its certainly a lot more time in a gravel driveway or storage building with minimal tools and no support, but having a lift and impacts and all your tools in front of you really speeds things up.

I dont ride my brakes hard, if i see something coming up that requires a quick slow-down from speeds i bump the shifter over and manually downshift to scrub speed and will continually manually downshift to help slow myself as i apply brakes to help me slow down. Taking an exit at speeds, i normally bump it down a gear and continue down in gears to slow me down rather than just trash the brakes. See a redlight on a highway at the bottom of a hill turn yellow, bump the shifter over and manually downshift it. Every time it gets down to 2000rpm i downshift another gear. When doing this, you turn the engine into an air pump, it isnt burning gas, its not hurting fuel mileage, its just helping slow you down. I normally get 100,000+ miles out of brakes on my vehicles, it really helps when you let the engine braking slow you down rather than burning the crap out of your actual brakes.
My wife on the other hand is doing good to get 40,000-50,000 out of brake pads. Rotors warped by 30,000 is the norm..... 80mph to 0mph right now.... Thats how she drives.