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:cornut: My Margi(08 R56 MCS/JCWm whose brakes are the same as Gen 1 JCW brakes) wear exactly as what you describe on your car. Margi is very spirited street and does not(legally:lol race. Me, I think that your pads are wearing normally but, much more knowledgeble gear heads will be along shortly.

Jason

 

it is called "pad taper". if you insert a spacer (i.e. an old backing plate with the pad material removed and plate flattened) as you pad gets smaller, it will minimize, but not totally eliminate this issue.

Todd (TCE) explained the physics to me, but i have a short attention span. i just added spacers as suggested, and got more even pad wear.

 

I experience similar pad wear with my tce kit, nothing to worry about, I use the pad spacers and 'flip' the pads every event or two to even it out, some of the higher temp pads will do it slightly less but it is a common type of wear from what I have seen across many cars in the paddock etc

 

I'm going to say that this behavior has to do more with the fact that per rotation more of the rotor area scrubs the outer/top edge of the pad then inner.