2022, 26k miles and pads are at 3mm! 2018 JCW Clubman made it to 30k. Half the mileage I get out my other cars. Is this just par for the course?

Best place to get affordable oem brakes for a 22 JCW ?

thanks guys

 

I mean it all depends on your driving style with pad wear, same goes with tires.

I'd get Zimmermann Rotors and Akebono Pads.

 

I have a 2018 S, I had to change the brakes at 36,000 miles. I dont drive aggressively but do have my fun on back roads from time to time. All OEM parts.

 

I can get 60k out my performance car brakes but only half that on my mini. Brake wear is very poor in my opinion. Exceptionally poor!

 

My stock front pads lasted less than 20k miles. My front rotors had massive pits on them when I bought the car. It became noticeable pretty quickly, but I replaced the rotors myself rather than complain to the dealer. Replaced the rotors around 5k miles, then did the pads around 20k when the sensor tripped.

I'm betting the pitted rotors made mine wear out faster than normal -- could definitely feel a vibration when braking early on. But there are plenty of stories on this forum about stock front pads wearing out especially quickly on these cars. I went with EBC Yellowstuff for my second set of pads, they seem nice and not as dusty as the stock pads were.

 

Let us not forget that acceleration, particular vigorous acceleration on anything less than a dry surface raises hell with the brakes on the F series Minis.

The reason is the electronic differential, clamping down on which ever front wheel tends to lose grip.

When I put the Quaife in it doubled the life of the front brakes.

The 1st set of fronts was done at only 27k miles - I was autocrossing in DS at the time.

The 2nd set went in at 63k - but the Quaife was installed at 56k, so the wear rate fell like a stone.

The 3rd set was not needed until 129k - now that's 65k miles from a single set, which tickled my fancy.

That set is still fat and happy at 150k.

So curiously enough, with the eLSD, one strategy for extending brake life is to stay out of the throttle in the bottom 2-3 gears!

Cheers,

Charlie

 

Seems like the new F56+ JCWs shoot through the brakes maybe to a softer brake pad compound. I know they dust a lot! every F56+ jcw with black wheels is always dirty. lol
Stock pads were brembo and they seem to shoot through them.

 

My second Clubman JCW and the same fast wearing pads…. The brakes aren’t even that great. lol! This car is why I started doing brakes myself so I guess I should be partly thankful.