Just get slotted, drilled are prone to hot spots and cracks.
Try EBC instead. Also very good.
May 2025: Oil service, new tires, front brake rotors & pads
Use either BMWPartsDirect or GetBMWParts website, buy genuine BMW parts and find a good mechanic in your area (maybe even mobile mechanic who would come to you and replace rotors and pads). In LA I paid $180 for the labor to replace front rotors and pads on my X5, for example.
The brake disc was really cool
One of those checks will be a minimum thickness on discs and pads. Given you've only done just over 1000 miles in the vehicle since purchase, it would seem to me that the minimum thickness on the discs when the vehicle was sold to you was at or below that required as part of the pre-sale check.
Buying the brake disc wasn\u2018t even the expensive part. Driving it to the point where it fits the wall, that was.
I’m happy with the EBC rotors and red pads but I can’t get them to stop squeaking.
Just run em’ after you grind it off. For a daily I would never run drilled. Noisy, water intrusion points, eat up pads, spider crack at the drill holes from water hitting a hot rotor, and you’ll be lucky to find a shop to turn them once they warp which is going to happen.
Send them back…
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