Abstract
Keywords: failure time distribution, braking pads, planned maintenance.
This paper presents a study concerning the possibility to improve the planned maintenance program for the most frequent replaced spare parts of a motor-cars lot observed during the exploitation period: the front / rear braking pads. It is noticed that there is the possibility to introduce the operation of compulsory replacement of the braking pads that reached the third technical revision without be replaced, by sacrificing their exploitation resource, and so improving the motor-car availability, which is favourable for the owner.