Motorhome Brakes

[Cookie]

It depends on how you drive them. I see guys with those bigger chassis make brakes last forever and other guys needing them twice a year. Obviously, towing makes a difference too. I have a few business class trucks for I use for work and personally I won’t even look at one that doesn’t have air brakes unless it’s a steal if I plan on keeping it. Two different tree service companies, two boom trucks that both tow comparable chippers behind them, both have hydraulic brakes and ironically the guy that makes his brakes last has no brakes on the chipper axle and other guy has working brakes on the chipper and needs brakes on the truck and chipper all the time. 

I get it, My F150 I am on original brakes at 120k.  I have the parts ready to do the job for the last 4 years, every time I check I in disbelief

 

[GBR]

I really do not think the price is to far out of line we just had a class 8 truck done the driver ran the brakes into the metal in nothing flat the bill was just under 20 grand calipers are almost 3 K each know not comparing apples to apples but the bigger the brakes the more they cost

 

[Squatcher]

I just had the toter done at the truck stop.  Rear brakes were $600 with labor and front where about the same but I didn't need new rotors.  I am checking with my brother.  His Motorhome was under recall and got a tons of parts shipped out to him for free. Brakes were in there too.  OK he said to call up workhorse with your vin number.  they will tell you all the parts under recall and ship out.  He as 2006 pacearrow. I know he got a lot of suspension parts that were on recall.  steering rack was in there too.  check your vin guys if you have a workhorse chassis.  They were real nice to deal with. 

 

[Cookie]

I just had the toter done at the truck stop.  Rear brakes were $600 with labor and front where about the same but I didn't need new rotors.  I am checking with my brother.  His Motorhome was under recall and got a tons of parts shipped out to him for free. Brakes were in there too.  OK he said to call up workhorse with your vin number.  they will tell you all the parts under recall and ship out.  He as 2006 pacearrow. I know he got a lot of suspension parts that were on recall.  steering rack was in there too.  check your vin guys if you have a workhorse chassis.  They were real nice to deal with. 

Thanks for the info, I reached out to Workhorse in an email last night with my VIN, woke up this morning with an answer (amazing in this day and age).  No good news for me that all my recalls had been done on the coach, and FYI it is a Pace Arrow as well.  Appreciate the insight.  

 

[Rorschach]

I really do not think the price is to far out of line we just had a class 8 truck done the driver ran the brakes into the metal in nothing flat the bill was just under 20 grand calipers are almost 3 K each know not comparing apples to apples but the bigger the brakes the more they cost

It still blows my mind that they’d ever put disc air brakes on class 8/semi trucks. Had a buddy that drove for a “progressive” company delivering fuel, he said that they had comparable braking compared to drum air brakes when first applying them but they faded super fast compared to drum. The pads were pretty big like you’d expect but I thought the discs were way too small. The surface area of the brake lining contact on disc still isn’t even a fraction of what the drum is so one would think that along with the lessened surface area that the maintenance interval would be a lot shorter for disc also. It is. I don’t think it’s a good comparison, though, class 8 compared to class 6 or 7 motor home. Class 6 and 7 hydraulic disc has been around since the introduction of disc  brakes in all markets but it’s still a pretty new concept on class 8 trucks plus the smaller chassis use hydraulic brake fluid applied systems where semis have adapted disc braking to work with the air system. Probably why your calipers are $3k and a hydraulic loaded caliper is $100.