From:    Ken Wilford <kenwilfy@COMCAST.NET>

If you think OE is so great just ask Eurovan owners how great it is when
their 2003 EV are in need of new brake pads and rotors at 30k miles!
Yikes!

I think that has more to do with driving technique than the the brake
pads...

I'm sure most of us have at some time been travelling behind some low
performance driver who touches the brakes at the slightest deviation in
the road or when another vehicle changes lanes 100m ahead of them. It's
very unsettling to the drivers behind them.

My 2000 T4 with the original OE pads front & back is just about to clock
over 105,000kms and still has 50% of the pads left. The 2003 has no
obvious wear at all although the kms are significantly less...

I wouldn't blame the OE pads when there are so many stupid people out
there on the roads...;-)

Cheers,
Steve O
NSW Australia
'92 Transporter WBX Kombi 
'00 Transporter Double Cab
'03 Transporter Double Cab (work truck)
'78 Landrover Series 3 Soft top Ute