I have just taken it in as the Brake warning light came on indicating what i thought was a brake pad change. They do need changing (although it looked to me when i just visited the dealer that there was a good 5mm still left) but the dealer has said that they want to change the front discs too. They look fine and I dont have the mm thickness yet from the dealer, but does any know how often discs need changing?

The vehicle has 60,000km, 38,000miles, on it. normal use with 50/50 use between motorway and town.

This is the first brake pad change and it seems strange that with every pad change, a disc change is needed also. Or am I being "sold" to?

Thanks

All depends on driving style. I went through 2 complete sets in 26k (miles) when I had mine...others have reported better time between swaps. Fronts usually wear quicker than the rears, so dealer might not be far off but it's not unknown for service depts to want to change everything on your car of course The choice is yours at the end of the day.... 

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Have you had the car from new.....38,000 miles for a set of pads is amazing. Mine lasted about half that time!

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shmoogle wrote:

All depends on driving style. I went through 2 complete sets in 26k (miles) when I had mine...others have reported better time between swaps. Fronts usually wear quicker than the rears, so dealer might not be far off but it's not unknown for service depts to want to change everything on your car of course The choice is yours at the end of the day....

dazsear wrote:

Have you had the car from new.....38,000 miles for a set of pads is amazing. Mine lasted about half that time!

Daz

Previous owner of my last TDV8 had new discs and pads all round at 32k miles. FF 4.4 V8 Soooo looking forward to this bad boy
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just spoke to a few Range Rover dealers and the general opinion is that discs can go at this mileage so it is possible although seems odd that i am going to have to change discs every time with pads. they also said to always change the brake warning sensors at the same time.

stopping never seemed that expensive!

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reidnul wrote:

dazsear wrote:

Have you had the car from new.....38,000 miles for a set of pads is amazing. Mine lasted about half that time!

Daz

I have had the car from 3000 miles and as far as i can recall yes, this is the first pad change. Its not the pads that I am questioning however. New discs at 38000miles?????

No mate I realise that you are talking about the discs, just can't belieeve the pads have lasted so long!
i expect I will be getting round to another set of pads AND discs by the time my cars has similar miles to yours.

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turns out that i HAVE had the pads changed once before at 24000miles, duuuurrrrr!

thanks for sharing.

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Mine will need a change soon (pads and discs), I have now about 100,000 kms (60,000 mls), pads lasted about 40,000, discs are original.


Funny thing: I was in the garage for a service and they told me the pads and discs need a change "very, very soon so we would do it right now is that okay". I said "no, I'll come by when the light is on". This is 5,000 mls ago and the light is not on yet.  RRS TDV6 HSE, 2006, bonatti grey, ebony interior, rear diff, s/c grille and vents, stormers, privacy, tasmods, iphone integration

reidnul wrote:

just spoke to a few Range Rover dealers and the general opinion is that discs can go at this mileage so it is possible although seems odd that i am going to have to change discs every time with pads. they also said to always change the brake warning sensors at the same time.

stopping never seemed that expensive!

Discs wear out more these days because the pads contain no asbestos. The compounds used in the pads are more abrasive and as a result the disc takes more of a hammerring.

Mine has done 28500 miles on original pads and discs but the dealer did say the pads would last till next service, we will wait and see............

yikes - the wife has had an X5 now since Sept 2004. Done 70,000 miles on the same disks and only had one set of pads. i prefer my MY10 but it seems the X5 is much cheaper to maintain - especially given the ~18 month service intervals.