6000 miles!!! FFS what are you doing to it? Driving round with your left foot on the brake all the time? Are you one of these people that brakes for every single corner and can't back off and roll up to a junction instead of braking for every one? I'm truly dumbfounded by that.....
Ford Ka, brakes were fairly marginal for the car as standard - 3 passengers in and you really had to work to stop it. That said, I was 18 and going everywhere at warp speed 9 on B roads. Occasionally upset a local bloke with an Elise... I was also getting through tyres at the same rate. Made servicing nice and easy though - oil change, tyres, discs and pads. Everything at the same time 
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