Replace Brembos with other brakes

You should be able to get these for under $500 for front and rear and about $300 for front only. Often you won't even need to replace the rear as they don't wear anything like the front.
My rears, consistently wear a little quicker than my fronts! (Currently on my third complete set of pads)

I have had the car since new, and it has always been this way for me. Perhaps driving style Is a factor?
The front pads are huge compared to the tiny rear pads. It wouldn't surprise me if they wear fairly evenly (front vs rear) as an average among users.
 
traction control pulses the rear brakes when necessary, which would explain quicker wear.
 
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traction control pulses the rears when necessary
That's the first thing I thought of as well. If you're a heavy braker, makes sense that the fronts would wear more quickly. But if you're heavy on the throttle, especially out of turns, maybe the "torque vectoring" adds up.

@Snowwhite do you know if it's actually limited to just the rears? Or is it just a much rarer scenario where the system would intervene up front? I guess you would need hard acceleration so the rears slip and the transfer case clutches send torque forward, and also be turning so the inside front slips...
 
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the system can pulse any combination of brakes it deems necessary to keep the car on the line the steering is requesting, so it can pulse the left side calipers if the car is understeering on a left turn, or the outsides if the car is oversteering, etc. it's not just for traction. Given the propensity of this car to spin the rears if there's the slightest bump even with light throttle, i'm not surprised they would wear first.
 
Given the propensity of this car to spin the rears if there's the slightest bump even with light throttle, i'm not surprised they would wear first.
yeah man but just slight tweeks from the traction control system making meaningful wear on the pads when compared to actual braking?
the total brake useage time between those two uses is probably 1000 to 1
 
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Both TCS (Traction Control) and ECS (Stability Control) use the ABS system to actuate the brakes independently at each corner, but their goals are different. TCS is only concerned about wheel spin. ECS doesn't care about wheel spin and only tries to maintain the car's intended yaw rate.
 
brake bias and pad/rotor size differences from front to rear can also play a role in which pads wear first, but I'm not going to try to calculate that one.
 
brake bias and pad/rotor size differences from front to rear can also play a role in which pads wear first, but I'm not going to try to calculate that one.
yeah I know, but the bias is heavily toward the front
I mean I haven't had to do my brakes on this car yet, but I typically see pretty even wear front to rear
I imagine I'll find out soon as I'm coming up on 60k so they must be needing done soon
 
Oddly enough, most cars with four wheel disc brakes will see the rears wear out faster than the fronts.
My last two cars did this. 2006 Altima, and 2017 Mazda.

Reason?..Most cars and CUV's in the last 20 years have a rear brake bias, this keeps the front end from diving down so much in stop & go city driving. So now your rear pads wear faster than the fronts. If you are an aggressive driver, you might not see this occur.

So if your rear pads need replacing first, it's perfectly normal.
 
Brake biasing is precisely calculated by the OEM engineers based on the car's static weight distribution as well as its suspension design and how that affects weight transfer characteristics on braking). This isn't something that is subject to trends or perceived public preference. You can get a sense of some of the calculation and design parameters here: Speed-Wiz braking calculation

Fact is... Stinger has a fairly even front-rear weight distribution. The lighter trims (e.g., 2.0T RWD) is likely very close to a perfect 50:50. This is one of the primary design input parameters in the brake design calcs. The end results are the piston areas, friction material and rotor sizing, and thermal mass (rotor thickness), etc.

So... it isn't surprising that Stinger front and rear brakes are nowhere near as front heavy as your typical FWD cars, whose weight distribution could be as high as 65:35. That's why a lot of FWD cars - even performance-oriented ones - have puny little rear brakes. Meanwhile, rear engine cars like the 911 have ginormous rear brake, often larger than their front counterparts.

Add to this that Stinger has a fairly long wheelbase for its size, and has a relatively low Center of Mass. Both of these factors conspire to limit the amount of weight transfer on braking and further equalizes braking force balance front/aft.

That said, Stinger clearly still has a brake force differential that is biased toward the front. Not huge, but quite obvious based on caliper/rotor sizing. Now then, mfrs tend to size the friction material accordingly, so that both front and rear consumables (pads + rotors) wear at comparable rates. This is mostly for maintenance convenience sake. However, they don't always hit it perfectly. Driving habits/conditions vary too.

Another thing to keep in mind... brake friction material wear rate is not linear throughout its service life. The thinner the material, the faster the wear rate accelerates. This means a relatively small amount of material wear differential when the pads are still mostly new could later accelerate into a much larger difference in remaining pad thickness. This can give a false sense of wear rate differential.

So... to make a long story short, don't fuss over brake pad wear rate. Brake pads - even premium ones - aren't that expensive. Not compared to other consumables (like tires) anyway. Not uncommon to read about guys here gladly blowing $1200+ on a brand new set of gumshoes, many of which don't survive past 20k miles. Even a $400 set of track pads will easily last longer than that. A $200 set of regular street pad will likely go twice that many miles or more.
 
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@Volfy writes another information-packed post. At least for me. Thanks.

My experience thus far at over 70,000 miles is even wear front to rear on a 3.3L AWD Stinger. I've read that designers deliberately intend for the rear pads to wear out first if one set is going to wear out first. I saw it on here. But my source is forgotten.
 
I've read that designers deliberately intend for the rear pads to wear out first if one set is going to wear out first. I saw it on here. But my source is forgotten.
That actually holds some legit merit in terms of vehicle safety. Front brake pads wearing out first means the car would potentially lose the majority of its braking power. That could be upwards of 70-80% and carry catastrophic consequences.

Still, I doubt most engineers would consider prudent practice to make such wear differential any more than just a little.
 
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