Fast Road Brake Pads
Discussion
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.
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.
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.
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
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
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
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!
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
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