Well, My brakes have been grinding and squealing and not stopping the car very well for quite some time now. The other day they pretty much stopped grinding and such, but the pedal travel increased and stopping power declined substantially.

So, this morning after fixing a fuel leak at one of the carbs and heading in to work I decided it's finally time to get the brakes fixed. I do drive the car every day and brakes are important. It is in the shop now.

I have the first round of pictures, all of you whiney babies that worry about little squeals and such had better be prepared to see what happens when you use up all of the available life of your parts.

1) The backing plates become the pads
2) When they are gone the pistons become the pads.
Usually along the way they weld together....

Seems like I'm having trouble posting more than one pic at a time from my phone...

Those two are the right side.

At least they seem to have worn evenly

Don't think you can turn those anymore

Not quite, here's the other side...

And how many weeks worth of warning time did you have before it got this bad?



Brakes and steering are the most important parts on a car. Glad you didn't get in a wreck.

I think that question is better expressed in months.

It should buff out? No?

Maybe music is allways to loud. Driver didn't hear the car crying for HELP.

That's a big WOW!
Never seen rotors so bad. What does the caliper look like?

Or years.

More than a few months, less than a year.

The good news is that the car is now fitted with a new (used) set of rotors, stock rear calipers, and 320i front calipers that I had for this occasion and is about ready to drive home.

Y'all should see the "pads" in the old calipers, I'll take pictures for your viewing pleasure.

We can rest assured that I didn't waste my rotors by throwing them out before their time!

So how long before we see these lightweight floating race rotors on eBay from George?

Now that's a great idea!

They are exceedingly rare.

Seriously....where do you work?
Get the boys on that...you are part of the marketing of his business driving around a 914.....

RIch

Oh snap.