What did you do to your Kia Stinger today?

[Buzzman12]

First snowfall coming tomorrow, Sunday. Car is safely in the garage.
Got out my snowblower today and tuned it up, changed the oil and stuff. Fresh gas. Started on the first pull. I am ready.

 

[Stanger21]

Fitted the winter wheels (now the only clean bit of the entire car until I can make time to give it a bath) and fitted new EBC Yellowstuff pads front and back after 21k miles on the originals.

Learn never to trust the stealership as well, told me the current pads were on 2mm last service and needed changing ASAP (with a ridiculous quote of over £1k), pads had at the very least double that left. Still, happy to have them fitted.

 

[Buzzman12]

I read the stories about the factory pads and their issues, so I went EBC red shortly after I bought the car new. Swapped them out without touching the rotors. Still new.
Much better braking power, and zero pull or vibration so far.

 

[ScorpionStinger]

I read the stories about the factory pads and their issues, so I went EBC red shortly after I bought the car new. Swapped them out without touching the rotors. Still new.
Much better braking power, and zero pull or vibration so far.

So did I get lucky - have had my 2022 GT2 AWD for 4yrs and now has 43K miles. Brakes have been fine no issues. I use the brakes gingerly - I do use the engine for some braking and am careful on downshifts as far as RPMs are concerned. I don't deal with big city driving or hellish highway stop and go traffic. I am guessing if one is hard on the brakes and deals with rush hour traffic daily then yeah brakes wear quickly - OR - I got lucky in the crappy brake pad issue.

 

[Snicklefritz]

OR - I got lucky in the crappy brake pad issue.

That would make two, since I have turned over 80,000 miles and am still on original OEM pads. I coast up to stop lights a lot and will downshift sometimes doing offramps, etc.