Funny story with this one , I used to drive 500+ miles / day hwy & ice roads in the north , one day my boss borrowed my truck to move some stuff , the next day I came to work & asked where my truck was as I had to get to work , they told me my truck was in the shop getting the brakes repaired as they didn't work & they asked why I had not told them so they would get them fixed , I told them I didn\t realize there was a problem as I never used them I just used the gears & hills & the brakes for maybe the last 10 feet or so to stop ! They just couldn't understand ! I also told them the brakes would be back to where they were in a month or so given all the mud & crap I would drive through daily & that they had wasted their $$ .