[john76]

The ‘vehicle status’ in my idrive has started saying that my front brake pads have 1600 miles left, whereas the rear still have 10,000. The car has done 30,000 miles and is still on the factory pads, plus I’ve looked at them (granted only the outer ones for now) and there looks like loads more than that left.

I know it’s a 2 stage trigger for the wear sensors. Has anyone else had their brake pads stuck on 1600 miles before?

Thanks!

[Abzynthe]

If the wear sensor hasn’t triggered, you can just reset the miles through the service menu on the Speedo cluster.
(sorry, I can’t remember how, but there are threads on here about it somewhere)

[Kermit]

Mine have been saying 3200 miles remaining for the past 18 months. Think it thinks they should be needing changing by now as a time-based thing, but they're only half worn.

[Abzynthe]

I’ve reset mine once, I’m on 32k miles and it’s still saying over 10k miles left. When it went in for an MOT they said I still have 6mm left.

[Alscoob]

My counter was reset twice on my last car and they still had plenty left when I sold it. Just measure the pad thickness deduct that from a new pad thickness so you can calculate how many mm you have used in the miles you have covered you can then gauge how far you can go before you need to change and reset the couter accordingly.

Computer is a guestimate.