lawguy

Just curious what the life span (in miles) would be for a set of brakes on these cars, if driven fairly aggressively.

I'm sure it varies somewhat, but at what point should I be nudging my SA to give me new brakes?

Ceenit

The SA will rely primarily on what the iDrive system states unless there is some other related issue with the brake system.

A friend of mine tracks her car (unofficially of course), and she's gotten new pads at 12k without an eyebrow raised by the SA. I think generally however, the from pads will go from 25-35k and the rears from 45-55k.

EBMCS03

Drive it hard and try to get them just before your maintence service runs out. that way you have fresh brakes for the next year or 2.

bad2bone

i have over 75k on my 06 530i and my idrive says we'll need new front pads in 4k. this will be my 1st set of new pads but i'm a fairly easy going driver

boukehj

I have 28,000 km = 17,500 miles and my idrive says I only have around 15,000 km = around 9,500 miles to go on my reat brake pads. Front is somewhat higher (25,000 km to go = 15,000 miles). I am a rather defensive driver.

JPJ

Mine were replaced by my dealer a year ago right before a track day (had some minor low speed noise). I think idrive showed 30K miles life on the fronts with the new pads. After a day on the track (which is considered an easy one on brakes) it showed 24k. After another year (15k miles) of mostly highway it was down to 12K. A day at the track the week before last it dropped it to only 6K remaining.

So basically 2 days at the track = a full year of normal driving.

My concern is that I'm doing a 2-day track event in Sept. (at a track considered hard on brakes) and I don't think my front pads will live through it, but will not have enough wear to have the dealer replace them before then. Maybe if I drive really hard I can use up 6k miles of pad this summer.....

(otherwise I guess I'll be buying some aftermarket performance pads)

E60BEEMER

mine had like about 3k left on the front and about 1k on the back

and i changed my pads and got some EBC, but my stocks lasted 18k miles, which is good

i think having drilled and grooved rotors will wear down pads quicker too

E60BEEMER

my god some of members make brake pads last, i thought generally the e60 brakes last aprox 20k miles at most, and on the lower end maybe 11-12k miles,

didnt know that 40-50 k miles could be done...........

bimmer545

I got new pads on the front last year, 13,000 miles later idrive says I have 6000 miles left.

E60BEEMER

yep thats about right

i do a lot city driving recently