1. The last time we had a brake pad thread, there were 20 recommendations..all fine. The takeaway is that almost any reasonable pad will be fine.


2. Slotted AND drilled is just a pointless, ricer mod. There is utterly NO technical benefit, and multiple downsides. As I recall, only one rotor in the world comes OE drilled and slotted. And may be more to make a style statement than actual performance.


But as we see for pads, this isnt that important for 99% of the X5 uses. (If you are towing, DO NOT do this mod, IMO)