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Originally Posted by hwntime
Wowzers! How'd you manage that? My front rotors/pads were replaced under the factory maintenance at 38k! I'm at 41k now and my rears still have a good 10k at least.
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My experience is similar to Davis 12345. Simple answer from me - engine braking with less brake use. My 1st E36 3 series sedan, daily driver - bought it new, manual transmission, sold it after 160K miles. Only had to do scheduled maintenance and replacing regular wear & tear parts. However, with brakes, replaced the rotors just once during the entire 160K miles that I put on. This car had a brake indicator. It came on just once. Inspected the brakes at every major service maintenance work.
My driving style is aggressive. My typical driving - fast acceleration, very late braking with downshifts & fast cornering (utilize all the grip my tires would provide). I replace my performance all season tires about every 25K miles. Mixed city & freeway driving. Every now & then used to take the car for high speed tracking as well as Autocross.
When I sold this car at 160K miles, it had the original clutch, suspension and most other major parts.
My 2nd BMW, E46 3 series sedan w manual transmission, bought BMW CPO with 38K miles. Currently at 128K with the same mixed city/freeway miles. Same aggressive driving style. Same original brakes the car had when I bought it. Still drives the same way that it did when I bought it.
A very happy camper. Thinking of replacing this car with BMW CPO M235i.