I must be super light on brakes. In over 50k I have not had front or rear pads or discs. As for rears wearing out before the fronts, never happened in my world, on any car.
Adaptive Cruise Control on my Mini will apply braking as necessary.
forums.mbclub.co.uk
Every day etc.
Surely you would knock off the cruise when going downhill, your wasting energy, and in your case brake pads.
Surely if you are on the speed limit at the top of the hill, if you just coast down the hill you'll pick up speed, so to stay within the limit you would need to apply the brakes at some point?
My S205 has not had either front or rear discs or pads in the 50k+ miles that I have had it.
That really depends on the slope of the hill, on a motorway or dual carriageway where cruise is often used, you would be hard pushed to go more than 5 mph over the limit, I travel to Lincoln from Leics nearly every week, you could feel the braking if cruise was on.
Extremely common misconception. Many modern Volvos are set up to use the rear brakes first, to prevent diving mostly but also because light braking doesn't require load on the front brakes.
Try coasting down some of the hills going to Whitby or Scarborough, you'll be going down 15mph over the speed limit as a minimum. My transmission also drops the revs down a hill and when coasting so no engine braking.
