front brake pads on 5000 turbo

[Mark Gooley <mgooley@advtech.uswest.com>]

Just had an oil change plus cursory checkup of my '88 5000 CS turbo
("'88 turbo?  We don't see many of those -- Audi didn't import many
that year" is the usual reaction of dealers & Audi specialists), and
the front brake pads need to be replaced.  The dealer says that just
the pads will do; an independent Audi mechanic says that unless the
rotors are almost intact, they should be replaced as well -- "they're
unusually thin, and won't stand being machined": he hasn't seen the
car yet, though.

Any truth to that?  Will I probably have to replace the rotors?  The
car has only 45K miles on it, the last 10K under my lead-footed driving.

Mark.