Fast Road Brake Pads

Fast Road Brake Pads

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TimmerTVR

Original Poster:

387 posts

222 months

Saturday 7th October 2006
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Hey i'm looking for some cheap fast road brake pads for my standard pug calipers. I was looking at both green and red stuff brake pads but ive had some conflicting reviews.

Are they any good? If not can you recommend any others.

Also to save writing another post i will be needing some new front tyres in the near future, again any recommendations? My housemate has just ordered toyo proxies for his 16v clio so another make would be cool so we could compare.

sorrento205

2,875 posts

243 months

Saturday 7th October 2006
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195/50/15 goodyear eagle f1's and mintex 1144's

Mikey G

4,774 posts

247 months

Sunday 8th October 2006
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Also consider the Ferodo DS2000 pads or if your very enthusiastic DS2500's if you can get them

Tripps

5,814 posts

279 months

Sunday 8th October 2006
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sorrento205 said:
195/50/15 goodyear eagle f1's and mintex 1144's
Mine's had 1144s on and they are rather good indeed.

I had Pagid Fast Road on the Golf GTi and they wre damn good too.

Nick_r182

54 posts

225 months

Sunday 8th October 2006
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Ive got ds2500 on mine. Very good pads. Although you need to warm them up abit as they are a fast road/track pad, but they are shit hot! They squeel a little bit at very low speed braking, so if that bothers you then go for something like greenstuff pads.

simes205

4,649 posts

235 months

Sunday 8th October 2006
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The pagids are good.

sorrento205

2,875 posts

243 months

Sunday 8th October 2006
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i found greenstuff pads no better than the 6 quid standard items. now the 307 conversion is the way forward

TimmerTVR

Original Poster:

387 posts

222 months

Sunday 8th October 2006
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Pagids may be a bit over budget for me especialy as iv'e got to get tyres too so i'll keep on looking. Had a feeling the green stuff pads may not be value for money.

I have been leaning towards BF-Goodrich g-force profiler tyres, they look good on mytyres.co.uk, anybody tried them?

simes205

4,649 posts

235 months

Sunday 8th October 2006
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TimmerTVR said:

I have been leaning towards BF-Goodrich g-force profiler tyres, they look good on mytyres.co.uk, anybody tried them?



GSD3's say no more.

TimmerTVR

Original Poster:

387 posts

222 months

Monday 9th October 2006
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Found some more brake pads-are red dot any good?

Mikey G

4,774 posts

247 months

Monday 9th October 2006
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TimmerTVR said:
Found some more brake pads-are red dot any good?

Are they the Tarox pads? Havent heard much about them. To be honest since my brush with the Greenstuff's i have stuck to Mintex and Ferodo since, i wont buy anything else, Ferodo being slightly better value but Mintex for the range of pads you can get.

pbirkett

18,426 posts

279 months

Monday 9th October 2006
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I bought green stuffs... tbh i would agree they arent much better than OEM rolleyes

Ferrodo for me next time.

WildCards

4,061 posts

224 months

Wednesday 1st November 2006
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I've always sworn by GSD3's and DS2500's.

The tires are the best bet for the money. £45 per corner for 195/55/15's fitted, balanced and tracked and the pads at roughly £50 for the fronts are such a cost effective performance modification for any car you'd be nuts not to do it.

pentoman

4,814 posts

270 months

Wednesday 1st November 2006
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Are Pagid RS19's (or RS9's) a good 'fast road'/trackday pad? They seem pretty expensive..

Tripps

5,814 posts

279 months

Wednesday 1st November 2006
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WildCards said:
DS2500's.
Have those on my 172 and they are damn good, very impressed with the progression and feel.

Ran Pagid Fast Roads on the Golf (for three days until written off!) and they were very good too.

goldiewolf

1 posts

216 months

Monday 6th November 2006
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Mintex 1144's on my 106 Rallye, noisy and create a lot of dust but boy do they stop you well!! Avoid Red Dot, Green/Red Stuff - not good for fast road as I found they wore very quickly.

Potenza's all round too, lasting not too bad and silly amounts of grip compaired to the Pirelli 6000's that I'd been recommended before trying Bridgestone

combemarshal

2,030 posts

233 months

Monday 6th November 2006
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goldiewolf said:
Mintex 1144's on my 106 Rallye, noisy and create a lot of dust but boy do they stop you well!! Avoid Red Dot, Green/Red Stuff - not good for fast road as I found they wore very quickly.

Potenza's all round too, lasting not too bad and silly amounts of grip compaired to the Pirelli 6000's that I'd been recommended before trying Bridgestone


It vary's from car to car, I had the exact opposite on my car, And I had Mintex once one a sierra I used to have. they managed to warp the discs!!
My green stuff do over 25,000 miles, and that's with grooved and drilled discs too, It's trial and error really!

pdd144c

208 posts

230 months

Wednesday 15th November 2006
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Mintex 1155 or 1166 are what I use in my road cars. Great for track use also.

ASBO

26,140 posts

221 months

Wednesday 15th November 2006
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pbirkett said:


Ferrodo for me next time.


..and excellent pads they are too.

I balked a little at the price of them for my GTi6 but by christ they are good. whatever you chuck at them they resolutely refuse fade.

I Have a two mile very steep downhill twistie on my private road* and they brake the car just as well at the bottom as they do at the top. peddle goes to the floor as the fluid boils but thats not the pads' failt.....

* this is actually a lie, it is simply a wanderful stretch of public b-road and I am infact a road terrorsit