yellow stuff brake pads

[Billyboy1]

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

I know this is an old thread so maybe the compound has changed but I am using Yellowstuff on my very mildly upgraded MX5 mk2 (roll bar, coilovers) and I get a single trackday out of a set of front pads...150mile at best. I know its get hammered but even this seems a bit high...I am spending more on brakes than the cost of a day itself at Bedford Autodrome!

Surely the MX5 shouldn't be that heavy on brakes even with a very enthusiastic fat lad at the wheel!

Thoughts?

[Baldchap]

Billyboy1 said:

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

I know this is an old thread so maybe the compound has changed but I am using Yellowstuff on my very mildly upgraded MX5 mk2 (roll bar, coilovers) and I get a single trackday out of a set of front pads...150mile at best. I know its get hammered but even this seems a bit high...I am spending more on brakes than the cost of a day itself at Bedford Autodrome!

Surely the MX5 shouldn't be that heavy on brakes even with a very enthusiastic fat lad at the wheel!

Thoughts?

Could they be binding? That's astonishingly poor mileage, even for track work.

[h0b0]

Billyboy1 said:

I know this is an old thread so maybe the compound has changed but I am using Yellowstuff on my very mildly upgraded MX5 mk2 (roll bar, coilovers) and I get a single trackday out of a set of front pads...150mile at best. I know its get hammered but even this seems a bit high...I am spending more on brakes than the cost of a day itself at Bedford Autodrome!

Surely the MX5 shouldn't be that heavy on brakes even with a very enthusiastic fat lad at the wheel!

Thoughts?

1 post in 12 years! Wow, good job on remembering your password.

There seem to be very mixed views on EBC pads on this site and others. There was a time when everyone swore by them but now there is an apparent inconsistency in performance.

I have yellowstuff on my Cayenne GTS after reading reviews on US based forums. I paired them with non-slotted brake disks from EBC as well. My experience has been very positive with the combination and used to recommended them to others. The performance exceeds the OEM brakes and there is significantly less dust.

I wonder if the positive experience I have had is down to pairing with the brake disks as well. Hearing about pads separating from baking is worrying but not isolated. We just had this happen to my wife's VW on OEM pads.

In spite of the positive experience I have had I no longer recommend the pads.

[Superchickenn]

h0b0 said:

Billyboy1 said:

I know this is an old thread so maybe the compound has changed but I am using Yellowstuff on my very mildly upgraded MX5 mk2 (roll bar, coilovers) and I get a single trackday out of a set of front pads...150mile at best. I know its get hammered but even this seems a bit high...I am spending more on brakes than the cost of a day itself at Bedford Autodrome!

Surely the MX5 shouldn't be that heavy on brakes even with a very enthusiastic fat lad at the wheel!

Thoughts?

1 post in 12 years! Wow, good job on remembering your password.

There seem to be very mixed views on EBC pads on this site and others. There was a time when everyone swore by them but now there is an apparent inconsistency in performance.

I have yellowstuff on my Cayenne GTS after reading reviews on US based forums. I paired them with non-slotted brake disks from EBC as well. My experience has been very positive with the combination and used to recommended them to others. The performance exceeds the OEM brakes and there is significantly less dust.

I wonder if the positive experience I have had is down to pairing with the brake disks as well. Hearing about pads separating from baking is worrying but not isolated. We just had this happen to my wife's VW on OEM pads.

In spite of the positive experience I have had I no longer recommend the pads.

I run these in my Leon Cupra (modified)

They have complete 2 trips to the nurburgring (about 3-5 laps each time) so nothing crazy..

But have also completed a few hot laps of the swiss alps.. my buddies brakes following me were bellowing with smoke and mine were running great..

So thats a few laps of the ring and 2 x 2000 mile road trips and i have about half life left..

150 miles to a set of pads isnt right..

[SAS Tom]

I ran a set of yellowstuffs on my Fabia. I got 2 trackdays and a few thousand road miles out of them possibly up to 5000. I thought they wore quickly but I was using them at Blyton which is hard on brakes and doesn’t give them chance to cool so I think it was fair really.

I’m at Blyton in my mk2 mx5 next week so I’ll let you know how I get on. The pads will have at most 500 miles on them before I go on track.

[MRichards99]

Baldchap said:

Billyboy1 said:

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

I know this is an old thread so maybe the compound has changed but I am using Yellowstuff on my very mildly upgraded MX5 mk2 (roll bar, coilovers) and I get a single trackday out of a set of front pads...150mile at best. I know its get hammered but even this seems a bit high...I am spending more on brakes than the cost of a day itself at Bedford Autodrome!

Surely the MX5 shouldn't be that heavy on brakes even with a very enthusiastic fat lad at the wheel!

Thoughts?

Could they be binding? That's astonishingly poor mileage, even for track work.

It's strange how Yellowstuff have such varied reviews. My dad used Greenstuff round Castle Combe a few times in his 1.8 mk1 MX5 and they were absolutely fine. I tried them once on track and also found them to be good, but that was my first trackday and I was pretty very lightly compared to what he was. I never tried them again though - same car and I manage to heavily glaze a set of Mintex M1144 pads, gone to Roddision's pads and they're amazing. Granted I've only done one trackday in them (at Combe, on a hotish day) but they were fantastic, and still got a lot of meat left on them.

[E-bmw]

My own personal experience of them is much like the (new) OPs.

They are made of plasticine!

How they are allowed to legally call them brake pads is beyond me!

TD morning & they were gone on an e36 328.

You need to look for DS UNO, Pagid RS29, DS 1.11 or similar & you will get good fade free braking no matter how hard you are on the brakes.

Yes they cost twice as much, but you will get a year out of any of these, and still want to keep them as a spare set just-in-case.

[james_gt3rs]

E-bmw said:

TD morning & they were gone on an e36 328.

How long are your sessions and what tyres?

[E-bmw]

james_gt3rs said:

E-bmw said:

TD morning & they were gone on an e36 328.

How long are your sessions and what tyres?

Typically 40 min on track 20 off.

[james_gt3rs]

E-bmw said:

Typically 40 min on track 20 off.

Ah makes sense. That's a long session by most people's standards! I think the yellowstuff are just softer than things like PF or RS14s, so if you get them hot they disintegrate. Whereas the more casual drivers don't get them hot and have short sessions... hence the spread of opinions here.

[GC8]

EBC are worse than rubbish. Avoid like the plague.