If there's one job most of us will end up tackling on our Bimmers at least once, it's replacing the BMW brake pads. A simple pad replacement is hard to farm out to someone else--the parts are cheap, the work is easy, and it's a job that will have to be done more often than most repair procedures. That's especially true if you drive your BMW hard. Likewise, if you've been wanting to try your hand at working on your own car, replacing the BMW Brake Pads is a great way to get your feet wet. If you manage to do it right, it might even inspire you to move on to bigger challenges down the road. Automatic transmission rebuild, anyone?

Your BMW brake pads make up the friction surfaces that contact the spinning rotors, bringing your car to a stop. As time wears on, your BMW brake pads wear down until there's not much left but a metal backing plate and some rivets. If you replace the BMW brake pads at that point, you can save yourself some money. If you let them go much further, you may have to replace rotors too, which gets a little more involved. But by all means, give a BMW brake pad replacement a try. Also, if you dont like having that ugly brake dust on your wheels, try a set of low dust Greenstuff brake pads from EBC Brakes. You might find there's been a little bit of German car mechanic in you all along.