tell that to my IIgs, or to my Pentium 1, or my GE VCR, or a few other things i own that are 20+ years old that still work like the day it was new.
it really depends on what that old **** is.
WOW WTF are you smoking. Its should only be common since to know that a car would need regular maintenance and or need repairs. doing regular maintenance on a car is not the same as having a faulty part replaced (as a example, a 2.7l v6 in a dodge all have a faulty design, The ignition/park shift interlock system was faulty on a few dodge trucks and vans, the wobble of death in a few jeeps, fords, and other trucks but hasn't had a recall as i know of.)
and the thing i am getting at is this is for cars and trucks more then 5 years old. replacing brakes on a car is a part of regular maintenance (unless it was apart of a recall due to being faulty, or known to be faulty). And even then it would just depend on what was faulty in what was going to be replaced.
you should have used a sarcasm tag in your post.