You have a bit of time after the squealer goes off.

Bear in mind Jeep saw fit to only install a squealer on one side...so observe the other side in case its ahead of the driver side.

If you have no pulsing under a long, medium brake your rotors should be good as well...so just slip in pads and you are good to go.

So that can be done on the road w/o getting hosed. You can even do it yourself if you don't mind not measuring the rotors and lubing the caliper...which you can do once you get home.

 

I'm pushing 55,000 with a CVT. I do get a little squeal when backing out of the garage, but have since 10,000 miles. My service guy says there's lots of pad left.

And, like many of you, I AM surprised that they've lasted this long.

 

I'm at 96,000 miles and incredibly still on the original pads. Ignatz travels mostly on rural highways and does only a little city/stop&go driving. That said, I've never gotten more than 50,000 out of any other set of brakes on any other vehicle, so I'm darn pleased.

Like jack.alwardt I've had a squeak from early on. On mine, its the right rear. At inspection time last November I asked the service manager about it and she said it was just dirt that gets in there. "I can have them clean it out, but it will be right back and you'll be upset with me." So I live with the squeak -- only get it on fairly hard breaking -- maybe80% pedal effort and then only when close to stopping, from maybe 10mph to full stop.

There are some other threads around on people who have gotten significantly more miles than I have from a set of pads.

 

Lots of times, not all, a squeaking brake can be fixed by doing a succession of reverse braking from a fairly high speed (for reverse).

I drive by an abandoned air strip out in the bush pretty regularly and I often take advantage and do a bunch of high (for reverse) figure 8's with hard braking.

Mine tend to squeak often due to the crappity roads I'm on for work, they pick up this fine, fine clay grit stuff and mostly the reverse thing works.

Other times what works is slamming the vehicle down into a pick up sized pot hole that wasn't there last time I drove past...but I don't recommend you look for that...unibody's sound awful when they hit.

 

Let's not get too excited. My 95 Neon I had, I changed the front brakes at 180,000 and never did change the back brakes. The car found the car heap at 230,000 miles).

 

Actually, that "reverse squeaking" acts as a "back-up alarm" while in a town--such as mine--with angle parking and pedestrians wandering across the street at random...