yellow stuff brake pads

[nicke999]

can anyone provide me with where i can get hold of these. thanks

[nicke999]

thanks for the reply, but i have tried this site and seems not allow me to select yellow stuff pads only the normal ones?? odd

[nicke999]

i have them fitted to my car already and they are brilliant pads for every day and track use, just need to by pass garage and acquire some more

[nicke999]

stifler said:

bigfatnick said:

parapaul said:

IIRC Yellow Stuff are track pads - the compound is too hard for road use, it takes too long to warm up.

Red Stuff no use for you?

i've got them. I bought them for trackdaying, because bmw brakes are appaling once up to tempterature! So i figured, go for the raciest, have to be warm, mental pads. My mate had some on his cerbera, and said they had to be hot before working properley.

Anyways, i fitted them , bedded them in carefully, and then let them have some abuse!
Conclusion, they work FINE when cold. They do work better with a bit of heat in them. They still smoke up a treat when they get hot and i still need to get some better fluid in there. But i wouldnt say theyre a lot better than bmw standard pads.

But for a daily car, theyre fine, they dont need to be hot to drive normally!

Might I throw in a curve ball here. Try the equivalent Pagid pad. we tested these back to back before deciding on which to use at the nurburgring 24hr race. Ebc pads tended to eat the discs as well as we would have to plan on a pad change in the race. Pagid pads had better feel, better initial bite, better overall stopping power (G sensor verified on the data logger), they would last the whole distance and the discs lasted about twice as long. There is a pretty strict bedding in procedure, but if this is followed they will do you proud.

The car we were testing on was a BMW E36 M3 GTR.

I can't recommend them highly enough.

hey guys, thanks for your thoughts and feedback, it has given me a few options. cheers

[nicke999]

just been doing a little phoning around, and Pagid dont appear to make pads that fit, and yellow stuff have the pads at Demon Tweeks, v helpful people

thanks again Nick

[nicke999]

this is a little review on these pads fitted to a Aston Martin DB9 s

AM pads - went through both front and rears at 10,000 miles, thats with one track day. yellow stuff pads still going strong, i will replace at 16,000 (with 2 track days and some high speed stuff in Europe) (done 13,000 so far in them) very little brake dust, great feel, good at low speed and high speed, and none of that squeaking noise going on.

costs AM £452.8 vs yellows £243.8 (pads alone) ----- per mile AM 45p vs yellows 15p per mile

nick

[nicke999]

nicke999 said:

this is a little review on these pads fitted to a Aston Martin DB9 s

AM pads - went through both front and rears at 10,000 miles, thats with one track day. yellow stuff pads still going strong, i will replace at 16,000 (with 2 track days and some high speed stuff in Europe) (done 13,000 so far in them) very little brake dust, great feel, good at low speed and high speed, and none of that squeaking noise going on.

costs AM £452.8 vs yellows £243.8 (pads alone) ----- per mile AM 45p vs yellows 15p per mile

nick

right then - my next review of these yellow stuff pads.

purchased in March 2009, replaced 30th March 2011 - completed 19,000 miles - the rears were down to the wire and i recon the fronts had another 5,000 miles in them. very little brake dust, and never a squeak out of them. In that time they have been subjected too some hard driving, local town work, high speed stuff, and the odd track fun.

i have to say - i'm impressed - in terms of wear on the disc, i have noticed a ridge on the fronts, and nothing on the rears, but im not sure if that is what you expect from a 50k car.

so thats the yellows.

now i have just fitted the new blue stuff pads. initially they needed a little persuading to fit into the rears, but other than that easy. initial running in, they seem fine, good grip and not a sound from them, will update you all in due course on how they bed in.

nick

[nicke999]

jon- said:

Thanks for the write up Nick, let us know how they compare to the yellows once they are bedded in as I fancy a set of these on my track car.

As for your pence per mile pad cost figures in your quoted message... I suggest double checking them

hahaha - well give or take a decimal place

so the results are

aston martin pads 4.5p a mile
1st set of yellows 1.5p a mile
2nd set of yellows 1p a mile

how's that!! lol