My Mini Cooper S eats rear pads for breakfast, is this just my driving or a thing with these cars
Swear I just did the rear pads on my F56 Cooper S about twenty thousand kilometers ago and I'm already hearing that faint scrape when I reverse out of my parking spot in the morning which is giving me flashbacks to the last time I ignored it and ended up scoring a rotor because the inner pad wore down to nothing while the outer one still looked brand new, and I'm starting to wonder if there's some kind of stability control wizardry going on that drags the rears constantly or if I just have a lead foot and don't realize it. I've been looking for Mini Cooper brake pad maintenance experts around Dubai who actually know these cars beyond just "yeah we can do brakes on anything mate" because the electronic parking brake retraction is a whole thing and I don't want some random shop jamming the piston back with a clamp and frying the module, plus I'm curious if there's a better pad compound for the rear that lasts a bit longer in stop start city traffic without making the pedal feel like stepping on a wet sponge. If anyone's got a solid Mini specialist they trust that doesn't charge dealership rates and won't look at me like I'm crazy for asking why the rears wear faster than the fronts I'm all ears, because this little go kart is too fun to be sidelined by something as boring as brake maintenance.