Sounds about right, i usually get 2 sets of pads from a pair of discs, but not always.

Are the rears free and working well MT, our Outlander 1 with its full MD history quite obviously didn't include any preventative miantenance at all (as seems to be normal these days), they were in awful semi seized shape when we bought the thing, indeed i ended up renewing one rear caliper the piston was so badly corroded.

Either way the set for your car are not badly priced, i went Mintex on the Outback, £134 the lot discs and pads all round, about a third cheaper than Pagid, they really do stop well.

Checked the OBC for brake wear on my tractor unit this week, its 18 months old and just clicked over 200k kms, steer and drive axle pads both about 50% worn, midlift about 25% worn, interestingly i notice a reasonable lip forming on the front discs so it will be interesting to see whether they get changed when new pads go on, or maybe heavily built enough to take a skim, or maybe left as is.

Its a funny thing about the MOT test, whilst brakes may be powerful enough to pass muster at full pedal, the machine doesn't test for distribution between axles for any given pedal pressure.

Many times over the years i've found vehicles to have imbalanced brakes, obviously in the days before ABS it wasa easy to check this out in the wet, you obviously don't want the rears to reach lock up stage prior to the fronts but some rears seem to be totally ineffective, especially at lighter brake applications.

I'm sure they're fine but I get the impression they are more generic than the Pagid or Textar ranges. That's the problem - it's only an impression.

They are in effect saying they are different, without being totally clear about what those differences are.

www.textar.com/en/products-mainmenu-29

"Over four years of development and testing goes into every one of TMD Friction’s OE products and Textar brake pads are manufactured using the same materials and components – such as back plates and a wide variety of noise fix solutions – on the same production lines. Textar’s application-specific engineering and technical expertise provide brake pads that are close to refit OE quality."

www.pagid.com/en/products-mainmenu-29/pagid-passen...0

"All Pagid pads are manufactured to O.E. specification including more than 20 types of noise fix and packaged accessories."

mintex.co.uk/1078-2/

"Mintex brake pads are developed and engineered to meet a significant demand for cost-effective braking solutions that deliver the optimum balance between performance and extended service life, by providing quality products at affordable prices."

I read that as -

Textar are as like OE as we can make them

Pagid meet OE requirements.

Mintex are good enough, and cheaper.

You pays yer money and you takes yer choice.