opinion on what to do with low brakelife

[alB5]

So the car now has 38k on the original rear pads, they are very low, couple of millimeters of actual pad left at best. I ordered ceramic hawk pads but KNS has them on backorder for another week or so.

How bad is this on the rotors? Will I have issues if I continue with what I'm doing? The fist is my only means of transportation and I travel quite a bit, recently I'm engine braking and driving slower than usual just to preserve pad life.

 

[CanadianGuy]

Imo as long as you have pad left and not metal on metal and you are not planning on douing any track activity 2 mm could last quite a few 1000 miles. Just make sure one pad is not much lower than the others as it is the one to keep an eye on.