Had a free day today so decided to get the car in the air to fit the Endless MX72 brake pads that I bought last year, but then held off fitting thinking that perhaps there was still life left in the original pads. Turns out I could probably have held off even longer...
...that's 25k miles of road only use. Barely a couple of mm worn compared to the new ones. So if anyone's thinking of changing theirs at about the same mileage, you can probably save your money
I'd always planned on upgrading the pads anyway, so I still went ahead and changed them. Hopefully once they're bedded in, they will be noticeably better enough to justify the change. At least they are still ridiculously easy to swap.
I had a couple of other jobs to do too with all the wheels off. Wanted to clean and degrease all the suspension components with a view to also giving them some rust protection, and rotate the tyres. However I finished up an hour ago and the Amazon delivery of the Waxoil aerosol I ordered isn't due for a while. Wanted to get the wheels back on, so sod it, that can wait until another day.
Also, wanted to go give my wheel arch liners a scrub. I'm not generally bothered about that level of automotive detailing; but ages ago I must have driven over some white paint as I had loads of it spattered inside the liners, and I kept seeing it. Ended up using a pan scourer to get it off.
At least I also took the opportunity to give the wheels a good clean and tyre gelling. Now I have sparkly clean wheels on a dirty car.
Edit: Amazon driver turned up about an hour ago with the Waxoil. Decided I didn't want to leave the job half done, so went and jacked the car up again and doused all the suspension arms and dampers.
