I am on to gripe. I had my Malibu in at a GM Dealer for a front wheel.
> bearing change and the service manager phoned to say, ; you've got 3mm
> (1/8") left on your brake pads, are you wanting us to change them?'
> Hell no I said, I only got the pads done 20kmiles at another GM dealer
> ago. He said, well take them back to the other dealer that did them and
> they'll fix them.
> So I go to change the pads out myself only to find that the thickness
> of my pads have grown within the past 2 weeks to over 6mm (1/4"). >
IF the pads are riveted on you may only have 3mm of wear left until hit the rivets. Overall you may have 6mm of pad but only 3mm of wear left.