How can you tell if brake pads & discs are worn out?

[Mr_Yogi]

Right, looking for some help from the PH collective

Not knowing much about how cars work, can someone tell me if there is an easy way to see how worn my discs and pads are?

The garage has said both front discs and pads need replacing, however alarm bells started ringing when the phrase "your pads are 95% worn" was used, something I read on here years ago.

The car is an 07 Aygo and it's just had a 30K service.

Cheers

[Mr_Yogi]

Thanks,

No problem with taking the wheels off, I can do that

Are there indicators which become exposed as the pad wears down? are these easily visable?

How about the discs?

I thought the pads might need replacing, but I was a bit surprised by the discs too.

Oh well...

[Mr_Yogi]

Cheers guys,

braking performance has not degraded as far as I can tell. I'll pop the wheels off tonight and have a poke around, any similar easy indication on the disc wear?

Edit:

or maybe I'll just look through the spokes

Edited by Mr_Yogi on Thursday 16th July 15:44

[Mr_Yogi]

Just thought I'd update this thread.

Took a look at the rims with the wheels still on, and there were very deep groves on them, both sides of each disc. After reading the above links regarding chocolate brake discs, and couldn't find any alternatives which were unanimously agreed on as being better, I prepared to bend over and take the main dealer offer.

However when I came to pay for the work, without even complaining about the short disc life, they had done them under warrantee

I've had a few problems with my Aygo but the dealer has always been very good

I'm so glad I went for the Aygo over the 107 or C1, having had previous experience of the Peugeot main dealers.

Edited by Mr_Yogi on Saturday 25th July 21:00