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      12-05-2011, 01:04 PM   #33
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Drives: 2009 E93 N54
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Originally Posted by wannabe View Post
I bought my car used and it says I don't need to service the front brake pads for 50,000 miles. This can't be right. I thought there were sensors on the brake pads, could they be broken?

Also, it says the rear brake pads need to be replaced soon, but the carfax I got from the dealer says they were replaced about 9000 miles ago.

Is it possible that when they replaced the pads, they cleared the service indicator for the wrong ones? Even still 50,000 miles seems like an error.
It is BMW's vile e-diff, the looking-good-on-paper-but-miserable-substitute-for-a-limited-slip-differential 'solution.
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