Anything weird going on with new Range Rover brake pads?

[chrisbyrd]

I’ve got a 10 month-old Range Rover P530 First Edition. At 16k miles it started alerting that it wants new brake pads - front and rear are down to 2.x mm. I appreciate pad wear depends on driving style, but it’s been driven very ‘conservatively’ and most of that 16k is motorway miles anyway. Is that a bit odd, or is that level of wear to be expected?

Anyway… local main dealer has had the car since last Friday. The pads they had delivered (not something they stock apparently 🤷‍♂️) ‘don’t fit’, so they’ve re-ordered from JLR. Something to do with a high-performance braking system apparently. Correct pads were ‘definitely’ going to arrive on Saturday, then Tuesday, then today. Still haven’t turned up despite JLR advising they’re in stock and the dealer Parts Manager can’t get a straight answer on when they’ll be in.

They reckon there’s no alternative compatibles available and currently don’t have any degree of certainty when the pads will come in.

Just wondered if anyone has any insight or inside info about what might be going on. Seems odd that such a boring/standard item is proving so hard for a main dealer to get hold of? Plus what feels like excessively fast wearing…

[akadk]

The car weighs 2.5 tonnes

16k miles isn’t too bad

[Crumpet]

Are they Brembos? 20k would be about normal on those - just be thankful they aren’t making you change the discs like Jag do!

[camel_landy]

chrisbyrd said:

I’ve got a 10 month-old Range Rover P530 First Edition. At 16k miles it started alerting that it wants new brake pads - front and rear are down to 2.x mm. I appreciate pad wear depends on driving style, but it’s been driven very ‘conservatively’ and most of that 16k is motorway miles anyway. Is that a bit odd, or is that level of wear to be expected?

As you say, it depends on driving style and as already mentioned, they're a heavy car, so they can consume pads at an alarming rate. Just make sure you:

• Use engine braking.
• Don't leave your left foot touching the brake peddle.
• Avoid instantly going for the brake as soon as you lift off the throttle.

"Smooth"... "Progressive"... Yada... Yada...

M

[chrisbyrd]

Latest update… according to JLR there are now officially no rear brake pads for the new Range Rover in the whole country. On back-order for unspecified amount of time.

[Crumpet]

Get it escalated with JLR customer service. They were actually pretty good when I need some parts after an accident and they even pulled some off the production line.

[LooneyTunes]

Fwiw, I’d see 16k as low. Mine (5.0 s/c) is coming up to 42k and still on original pads, even with a lot of country lane driving. Rears are going to need changing soon but I’d have been surprised if they’d needed doing at 16k!

[NomduJour]

Torque vectoring will be hard on rear pads, 16k for fronts doesn’t sound terrible for 500+bhp vs >2.6 tonnes.

[cayman-black]

Strange my local MD did not have or could get the rear pads for my 17 year model either.

[ptilley]

My 2021 Westminster needs front pads after 19000 miles. Last service, at 9000 miles, front were 9mm and rear 7mm. Now front 2mm and rear 7mm.

I’ve had loads of Range Rovers and drive them like a vicar as if I want to rag a car around I’ve got another one to do that with. Discs are pristine. I’ve never been anywhere near new pads on previous cars even up to 33000 miles on the last one.

Dealer says it’s normal and brake load split is 70% to front and 30% to rear. He also tells me that material used for pads is different now due to noise//emissions etc.

Anyone got any thoughts ?

[LooneyTunes]

Mine eventually said it needed new pads at about 45k.

Has the active rear diff, so less use of brakes for traction/stability control?

[cayman-black]

Looney, is that the first pad change, incredable as OP says under 20k miles mine needed doing.

Edited by cayman-black on Sunday 24th December 12:16

[LooneyTunes]

cayman-black said:

Looney, is that the first pad change , incredable as OP says under 20k miles mine needed doing.

Yes, first pad change (unless the main dealer did it and forgot to charge), which I think unlikely), which i didn’t think was too bad for a supercharged. I don’t tend to make heavy use of the brakes on the road but I was surprised how long they’d lasted given the weight of the car.