Check them. Don’t wait till the indicator scrapes your rotors. Also depends how you drive. I drive like an old man so I check mine like after 6 months.

Pop the wheel off and look at the pad from an angle around the caliber. New pads have roughly 3/4 inch of material

You will learn to judge it by experience. In the meantime you can use a gauge like this one https://www.amazon.co.uk/Laser-LAS5848-Brake-Thickness-Gauge/dp/B00J06OCEK

Typically, the first sign is a squealing or screeching noise when you hit the brakes. (Moisture on the pads will give a similar sound when you drive off in the morning, but that sound will be gone by the time you get to the first traffic light.) If you ignore that noise and start to hear a grinding or growling sound when you hit the brakes, you’ve likely gouged a rotor.

That statement makes no sense. If anything brakes on a manual can last longer since you can engine brake to slow down a lot.

You'll hear your brakes consistently squealing when they get low and need replacing. If you look at your pads there is a small metal tab that will contact the rotor and make that squealing.

All comments aside, if you're not sure then take it to a shop to be inspected. A quick inspection won't cost much and will give you peace of mind.

To add to the other comment, if you hear squealing or grinding while braking, that's a sign. If you feel grooves being work into your rotors, that's a sign that you're way past due. Also, if your breaks don't work as well as they used to, there's another sign.

Pads have plenty of life left. Car has vibration braking on highway speeds only. Thinking I should start with an alignment.

One of the easiest ways to see how much rotor you've used up is to look at the lip that forms between the outside of the rotor and the surface that pad pushes on. Doesn't look like yours are worn down much at all.

I would actually think they may need to be resurfaced if you're experiencing vibration only while braking.

There's plenty of meat on the disc. I think it's better to take off the wheel and check the disc condition at the shop to be sure. Maybe, just maybe the brake pads aren't seated properly?

Brake pads tend to be about 10mm thick when they’re new. The one we can see in the third pic looks at least 7-8mm; changing them around 3mm is normal. You’re fine for pads.

The discs don’t have gouges, and don’t have a huge lip around the edge, and no significant rust accumulation. The discs are probably fine, too.

It’s still good practice to disassemble brakes and clean them, and relube them annually. Otherwise they squeak at low speeds.

Edit: relive —> relube

Good to go but check inner pads, they tend to wear out quicker

Looks good on this side.

That shits shiny af w no gouges, hell no u good on pad too

Not from these pics

If all the pads look like that, check again in 6 months.

Recommendation don't take your vehicle there ever again!

They're at least 70%, but check all (including inner pads)

Now I hate when shops do this. They either don’t tell you everything you need like the inside pad is low, or they lie and say it needs brakes and it doesn’t. These pads look like they’re about 7mm (brand new is around 10mm for front) and unless the other side is extremely low, then question the shop that said it. If the other side or inside is low, then you have a caliper issue.

I've got a fairly old N, got it end of Nov 2018, sitting around 48k miles. My front brakes needed new pads around 40k the rear were still good for a while. One thing apparently about the N, and I'm sure other cars as well, is that if you are driving it like a sports car when you need new pads you also will need new rotors. The pads will wear the hell out of the rotors and you'll end up with a pretty deep groove near the end of the pads life. I had both a dealership and my performance shop point it out to me and the disks did in fact have pretty deep grooves even though the pads were fine, they are just large and strong so both end up wearing out it seems.

Take a wheel off so you can get a good look at both pads. One is on the outside of the rotor, and one inside. If the thickness of the pad material isnt thicker than the backing plate of the pad, you need to change them. There's a specific mm thickness they need to be, but if they're still thicker than the backplate they're still ok for daily use.

*******If you're tracking your car and don't know if they're still good, get someone experienced to check them for you.

Yes you can change them. A jack, jackstand, and a few wrenches is all you need. It only takes about an hour to change both front pads and rotors once you're comfortable doing it.

There are squealers on the pads. I notice mine making some noise the other week and the rotor looked rather worn out. I noticed there was hardly any material left on that side. But the scrapping/squealing noise brought it to my attention first.

You measure them. Don't recall the minimum though. After 25k out of the current 30k miles on my manual n tho, there's still a lot of life in these pads. Probably last me for another 20-30k.

Hyundai does a multi point inspection for free have them check it if youre worried

Make sure you check inner and outter pads,brake pads on inner side can wear a little more then outter but from look of outter pad your close to needing brakes soon

That is not a 3mm. Maybe 5. So keep an eye on it. And be expecting to have to do your brakes soon ish. Pads look fine.

On all 4 wheels make sure you check,brakes can wear unevenly

Rear pads are about done then. Fronts are fine for now

Your at about 3mm in brake pad left,you have a bit of life left on outter pad,inner pad not shown in picture could be worse but you should getting brakes replaced soon

2014 acura ilx 2.0L

1st and 4th picture are about done. 2nd and 3rd still have life. Is each picture a different wheel?

The pads look fine but that rotor is trashed. If you’re replacing the rotor you should replace the pads so they can bed in together

That looks like a picture of brand new pads to me.

The rotor looks like it could use resurfacing.

You paid $1,500 for a brake job? Was this at a dealership?

Those are new pads out of the box. Of course they don't need replacing unless your talking about brand name.

Those are new pads

Those pads are new, the rotors trash. Not sure what they tried to show with the picture they sent.

German cars tend to use a soft steel for the rotor material. They typically don't do well if you put just a set of pads on and don't replace (or turn) the rotors. Braking performance usually suffers about half way through the second pads. I suspect the last time brakes were touched it just had pads put on and nothing else done.

Sounds early to need calipers, but I'm not the one with the car in my bay.

Some ppl shouldn’t do their own work on cars……..

So the Brake kit came with 4 new bolts and you have 4 extra bolts after and you don’t know where the 4 came from? I’m confused on the question. I woulda put lock tite on the new bolts and tossed the old. But using the old is fine yes. Those look like caliper bolts.

If you’re saying you ended up with 4 extra bolts doing brakes and new ones didn’t come with bolts your caliper is most likely not attached to the hub right now lol.

Those look like the bolts that hold the caliper to the hub. If your kit came with new ones then you should be good to go

Spare parts are always good to have. Because next time you do repairs, you may be missing parts. now you don't have to buy parts.

Is this for real?