Do pads wear at the same rate as disks?

[Gandahar]

Got to admit I am a complete noob in these things.

My assumption would be that pads would wear at a far faster rate than disks, however I took my Yaris in for it's 60 000 mile service and they say both need doing. I'm rather surprised the pads lasted that long to be honest but I would have thought the discs would have lasted longer.

Given new pads and discs do you think they will ask me to bed them in ? Or is it not needed nowadays.

[paintman]

I generally replace the discs on our own cars every second set of pads unless the disc thickness is still well within allowed tolerances.
They will need time to bed in - couple of hundred miles should be plenty & avoid heavy braking if possible - & its not unusual to notice the pedal seems a bit vaguer than usual.

Edited by paintman on Friday 10th January 20:12

[CrutyRammers]

Not an unusual life for discs. Modern pads do last a long time, at the expense of the discs.

[G600]

It could be that the discs won't last another 60000 miles so they would wear down to the limit before the pads, which is unlikely to be noticed.