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Originally Posted by JCL
the vehicle is 7 years old on original brakes with over 100,000 km so not surprising that they are worn, and it is likely that cleaning up the caliper slides and applying high temperature grease to the pad ears will correct the wear imbalance.
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I'm jealous! My cousin who lives in CT drives a 5 series and tells me he is still on original pads. He added that he does a lot of highway miles. OTOH, we live in the hills, and a couple of the roads have speed bumps. I don't think we ever got even 10,000 miles from a set of front pads. Everyone has told me the hills and the weight of the X5 will wear the pads fast, but why the sensor doesn't fire on the drivers side before the passenger side is still a bit of a mystery to me. It has consistently been that way with each set of front pads. We are the original owner of the 2005 X5.