Brake discs Centric or OEM BMW

May 2025: Oil service, new tires, front brake rotors & pads

I went with centric blank rotors and stoptech street pads wasn't hard at all.

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.

I am a big fan of Centric 120-series brake rotors and either Akebono ProAct or EBC RedStuff pads.

I use Centric Cryo-Treated 125s on my Brembo swapped VA WRX. They are a great rotor and have held up really well over the 20k miles that I have been running them. They still look almost brand new, which is crazy considering what they have been through.

Buying the brake disc wasn\u2018t even the expensive part. Driving it to the point where it fits the wall, that was.

I’m seeing some very small cracks on the cross-drilled holes. At what point does this become concerning? These are the front rotors on a new G82 M4 comp after about 6 track days using Pagid R29 Yellow pads which I’ve used before with no issues. My preference is to keep the stock rotors rather than switching to non cross drilled rotors

For example on my 4 series if you took it to a dealership to have the front disks and pads done you are looking at over £900.