Correct and correct.
Yes that's the kit I purchased. Yes you have to replace the pan and filter because to drain it, you have to break a plastic drain cap on the pan that is not replaceable. If you want to save a little money, you can buy 5 bottles of fluid and the pan and filter separately from FCP euro instead of their full kit. I think you're changing it a little early but I guess it doesn't really hurt since you're going FCP euro route and it'll all be free eventually.
Optionally Bryan has a thread on upgrading that plastic pan for the BMW metal ones.
Just did this as well with Motul, just need one of the 1L bottles. Much cheaper than FCP if you don't wanna deal with shipping back.
Yeah, good recommendation. Glad you took it in somewhere. Kinda a known (old) issues on the forum. Talked about a lot.
I wouldn't feel bad about not catching it when you did pads. Unless the dust sleeve was slid up or not seated right you wouldn't have seen them. You've gotta pull or push that up to check from what I remember seeing from others posting on here
You still have a ton of life left on those.PMU Club Racer front pad wear after 2.5 days at VIR and 2 days at CMP. They looked practically new after VIR, but 2 hard days at CMP cooked them pretty good. The shims were cooked, crusty and warped and separated from the backing plate. They wore about 5mm so ~50%. I went ahead and threw on a fresh set along with a matching set for the rears since I was running OEM before. The rotors still look really nice.
With a stickier tire they're not going to live long at CMP, so after this new set I'll probably step it up.
The AR1's run narrow so you should be good. For some reference, here are 275/35/19 AR1's on 19x10 square. You can see they should be fine on a 19x9 in the front (although not optimal), they are a pretty stiff tire
