[Madgambler]

Rather than splashing out on the full M Sport brake kit I thought I'd look into replacing the discs alone on my little Bimmer and save a few grand.

Turns out that the folks in Germany have already thought of this. You can specify a cross-drilled vented set instead of just the normal vented discs for only 30 GBP more each. Special order but available as standard replacement stock.

I've put 34K miles under my wheels in about a year of driving and the original front pads still claim to have 9K left to wear, but judging by the brake fade and sponginess I doubt that's really true.

Will upgrade the rears to match at some point in the future. They still claim to have 14K left to run.