what pads and discs?

[little-bloke]

S1 is ready for pads. I might as well renew the disks as well.

I use the car daily to commute along 15 miles of fun B roads. No track days.

I have experienced brake fade whilst travelling “enthusiastically” to work, so I’m thinking of upgrading.

If I upgrade what do I buy and where from?

I have a good mechanic as a good friend so I’m not planning to use the main dealer.

[cuzza]

Disks, if they're inside tolerance (minimunm thickness 24.9mm then they'll be fine, otherwise I'd probably go for the standard ones or EBC turbo-grooves. The standard style ones from Eliseparts are apparently better quality than the Lotus ones and are much cheaper. I don't buy the whole dimpled and grooved thing and will be going for plain disks when I replace mine. If you want to spend a bit more (not a huge amount) try and track down some Hi-Spec disks, better quality and available drilled and or grooved or just plain.

Pads, Mintex 1144 which are a fast road pad, EBC Green Stuff take some warming up before they work which can be alarming. If you were tracking it, I'd say Pagid RS4-2s.

All this can be bought from www.eliseparts.com/

[WOZ]

Pagid fast road pads are recommended by many. Green Stuff is poorly regarded as far as I can gather.