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Originally Posted by ///M1
- Reduced cost of maintenance (over medium term) makes price more digestible (i.e. changing pads and rotors over the life of the car if equipped with steelies, which one would otherwise need to factor in) |
Out of interest my last steel M Brakes on my F80 lasted the 50k miles and 7 years I had the car with no costs incurred for pads, discs etc. In fact the service system on the F80 said the steels still had 100k to go. At least in my experience there would have been no medium term cost advantage of CCBs over steel brakes - and in fact the capital outlay for CCBs would have been much higher over the 7 year life of my ownership. This is also the reason I'm going with 2NH steels for my F87 CS (combined with better safety in wet weather for my wife when she drives the car in the rain, and lower squeal noise).