i just replaced the front brakes on my wife's 2004 Chevy cavalier.

the drivers side started grinding so i figured i better take a look.
the passengers side there was still 1/2 a pad left but the drivers was gone!
why is this??

 

No idea but I have seen this a few times on several different types of automobiles. My Jeep being one of them, had 50% on passengers side and drivers side was gone.

 

Time to replace caliper too, hanging

 

yeah i was thinking maybe the caliper... it seemed to compress fine so i wasn't sure..
the car had 74,000 miles... so parts are going to start wearing out.. we been looking at those new chevy cobalts