i like to have spares.. you never know if you may forget to change the brakes ontime.. then you get steal on steal which ruins the drums and will leave big engravings.... atleast you have spares.. but if you trust yourself or these drums are bad anyway then go ahead toss em but don't just throw away tthey can be recycled for lil bit of cash if ur a scrapper... give to a neighbor lol but seriously if you bought cheap ones they wont last long... always good to have spares. im not sure why you replaced them if they wasn't bad....

and im sorry but i am litteraly rolling laughter at Robert for saying do you expect it to last 400k..... ive never owned a vehicle that didn't make it to that point lol. must be a bad mechanic or really hard on vehicles.. even then engine swaps aren't hard haha. i have a 85 gmc that has hit straight 9's on the odemeter and started back at 0 again haha. my 96 dodge has almost 400k right now.. not quiet but its close.. and many other vehicles ive owned lol.

I see no reason to save old brake drums, unless you have some sort of ideas about using them to make other useful objects. With over 200k miles on the old drums, they are beyond reasonable life as car parts.

Old brake drums DO make good heavy bases for work stands or rope stanchions...

If they are "saveable" why did you get new ones anyway?

If those replacements are "Chinese Cheapies" you should save the OEM. You'll need them in about 40,000 miles.

Scrap them. Unless you need them for trotline weights. The originals lasted 200K. Do you really expect that car to sill be running at 400K?

yes you have to save it because may it will be replaced on future time for your

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After 200K miles I replaced my brakes drums and everything. Is there any reason I should save the OEM General Motors brake drums and get them resurfaced or should I just throw them in the recycle bin. I'm assuming the new ones will outlast the life of the car anyways.

I have a buick 1999