Five years ago I purchased a new BMW 530Diesel automatic. At 74 yrs old I only do 6,000 miles per year, but take great care to make a reasonable run once per week to keep the engine in reasonable order. The car has proved very reliable and has been serviced each year at BMW garage locally. At 32,000 miles the computer registered that I needed to have the front disc pads renewed and I duly delivered the car to the garage. The garage made a service to the front brakes that comprised 2 new discs plus pads plus one hour service time, which is the time it took. The old discs were not given to me and the cost was 565 Euros inc tax (about £500). As I do not drive fast and therefore do not use heavy braking, plus the car is garaged in dry garage, and the local council does not use salt in the winter, do you consider that discs should have been fitted at this stage? The garage is the only BMW available in this sparsely populated neck of the woods.