Just thought I'd share a few discoveries:
When drivign my girlie's dci I can get it up to 62mpg. I recon that's pretty damn good. Under the same conditions the 225 does around 32.

She's been complaining of squealing brakes recently. And boy dont they squeal! So I whipped the wheels off to take a butchers. The rotors worn by about 2 - 3 mm. I'm not sure what the wear limit is, but is has to be close. The thing is, the car is still on its original pads, and these are only half worn. Now I know modern pads are very good and last well, but outlasting the rotors two to one?

The car still sits on its original rear tyres, (but 2nd rear axle). The tyres are showing signs of age, the side walls are decaying. The decay is so bad on one tyre that the sidewall is deformed and had to be swapped immediately with the spare.

Chris.

Are the discs worn evenly?

Discs are worn nice and evenly - just very worn. I've not seen anything like this in under 100k miles on any of my previous cars.
The dci has a very fierce brake pump, so leaden footed herberts like me take a while to get used to them. They are certainly much more fierce than the 225's even with drilled trophy discs.
Chris.

Bit odd that the pads are still serviceable then, have you had it from new so you can verify this?

The car was 2nd hand, but the service record indicates nothing had been done - not even an oil change. I know the pads haven't been changed in the last 25,000 miles. Even if the pads were changed at the first service it still indicates pad and rotor wear out together.

If this was a motorbike, with high metal content pads (required to clear water away from the rotors which on a bike collect water from the tyre) I could understand it. But not on a cooking hatchback.

Chris

I would imagine that the pads were changed before you had it.