Brake pads Tesla or OEM Volkswagen

My Tesla has huge rear brakes I hardly ever use. The factory brake pads still look brand new after all these miles. Rear brakes are pointless if you have regen braking.

model-3S have been remarkably reliable, many past 200,000 miles have little issues, some still on the original brake pads.

I did my own brakes, sorta with and without the special tool. My conclusion is that the tool is not strictly needed.

I just traded in my 2019 Jetta with 65000 miles, never changed the brakes, but looked at them at 60000. It looks like they were at thick as new, insane. Would stop on a dime.

I've got 160k kms on my front brake pads on my 2012 tdi.

Rear pads I've changed 3 times.

It's got exceptional engine braking.

Oh, I did have rust pop on one of the original brake pads so I had to replace that this spring - very little pad wear though!

My rear breaks also wore out faster. I just had them replaced (1 month outside the extended warranty lmao kms) at 27k km.

I'm convinced the MK6 just has shitty brakes (I mean they do stop but I think they're just bad). I've had 2 of them and they both wear unevenly, hang up, or just in general wear out too quickly.

To be fair Tesla brakes are not great. Combined with regen? Sure it’s adequate, but drive a German vehicle and see what brakes are about.

If you have white, the break dust will color your car.