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Agreed JohnF, our OP is doing very well with brakes lasting that long given the commute she does, and i'd MOT it first as well at somewhere a bit old school (not the garage presently used) and see what the tester says.
As a rule i find discs last two pad changes these days, that looks like its going to be the case on my artic lorry too which is half way through steering and drive axles second sets of pads @ 490k kms and there is a sizeable lip on the steering axle disc, drive axle discs not so easily visible unless i'm grovelling on the deck or the wheels are off.**
It isn't always the case on smaller cars i've noticed, family Aygo sees a lot of south east England driving, i changed the front discs with the pads first time round before 40k because the discs were wearing fast, its just had another pad change and i decided to leave the discs this time but i have no doubt a garage thinking about bedding in issues and smaller contact area due to wear lip leading to poorer braking during bedding in process would have changed them again.
For a small car the Aygo is rather heavy on its pads.
**just for interest we as a company along with many others, including the hire company who rent several trailers to us have gone back to specifying drum brakes on trailers, not only are they every bit as good in performance if driven properly, but they don't give any in service trouble at all...the same cannot be said of those fitted with disc brakes which are nothing but a pita and cover the wheels in brake dust when driven poorly.
Edited by gordonbennet on 17/05/2016 at 11:11
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