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Originally Posted by JCL
There are a wide range of ceramic pads available, with very different characteristics for initial bite and other factors. I wouldn't lump them all together as having similar performance. Which ones did you use?
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Akebono Euro ceramic.
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Originally Posted by J.Belknap
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What does your picture of a swiss cheese rotor (that has less surface area than a stock rotor) have to do with what brake fluid one uses? Show me a PFC direct-drive rotor and I'll be impressed... 
FWIW, we've had X5's driven at several driving schools that I instruct at. One, when it first came out, with the dealer owner, who is a race car driver himself, driving it around the track with 3 passengers. Lap after lap of E-ticket rides and no brake problems of any kind.
I have run more brake fluid through my vehicles than most people. It is a byproduct of from having raced BMWs for over a decade. I never needed $80/liter brake fluid when I raced (Motul RBF600 was fine) so I just don't see why anyone would need it for an X5.
I don't remember the guys in the towing threads having a problem with boiling their brake fluid, so I'm not sure why regular users would have a problem. 
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Las Vegas
2016 X5 40e Mineral White/Black Dakota Leather, ZLL, ZCW, ZDA, ZDB, ZPP, multi contour seats, rear side window shades, HK stereo
2011 E90M3, 6-speed manual
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