I'm thinking of upgrading to ceramic pads to, the Dodge journey is a heavy vehicle but new pads every 40,000 km's? that does seem a bit excessive. scratch that, earlier (35000) if you don't want to have to replace the rotors too.
The dealer wanted to sell me new rotors and I told them to stuff it and just turn the existing ones.
I have read that one owner had taken his car in because of what sounded like a wheel bearing problem on the front passenger side. I will wait and see if that problem was related to the brakes.
As a side note, I traded a 2006 Chrysler 300 in for this Journey and I had put over 100,000 Km's on it without touching anything to do with the brakes
