What brake pad? (brand)

[richb77]

Quick question for you all.

What brand of pads do you use?

I ask as i am getting round to replacing my low pads and want something with good initial bite and minimal fade. (dream scenario i know).

I've had common garden ferodo before which where "Meh". EBC which did little but cover the wheels in the blackest of dust instantly. More recently Pagid from ECP.

Just wondered what people are recommending for a fairly hot (factory) saloon.

[andy-xr]

I have Pagids on the toy, OEM on the trundler

[jaymzfc]

I tried green stuff ofr the first time and i'm truly impressed, much less residue and good stopping power. Ferodo are pretty good as well i've been told.

[ging84]

i think you should make your own out of compressed compost
for the sake of the polar bears

[kambites]

I'm using Mintex 1144s; they're not the best pads available, but are reasonably priced and bite respectably well from cold.

What pads work well depends hugely on the car in question, though. For example "Green Stuff" on an Elise are bad to the point of being dangerous. I have too little experience of heavy cars to know what would work best on a family saloon.

[DAVEVO9]

Carbotech XP10.

[Krikkit]

kambites said:

I'm using Mintex 1144s; they're not the best pads available, but are reasonably priced and bite respectably well from cold.

What pads work well depends hugely on the car in question, though. For example "Green Stuff" on an Elise are bad to the point of being dangerous.

Same on a 106 - the 1144's are well-liked, but the Green Stuffs are so soft they just fall apart when abused.

[kambites]

Krikkit said:

kambites said:

I'm using Mintex 1144s; they're not the best pads available, but are reasonably priced and bite respectably well from cold.

What pads work well depends hugely on the car in question, though. For example "Green Stuff" on an Elise are bad to the point of being dangerous.

Same on a 106 - the 1144's are well-liked, but the Green Stuffs are so soft they just fall apart when abused.

On the Elise, the Green Stuffs seem to glaze or something - they just have absolutely no grip. I really struggled to lock the wheels up at anything over about 40mph. With 1144s pads I can lock them at motorway speeds.

My biggest complaint about the 1144s is their performance on wet discs. They seem to give very poor grip until the discs have been cleared by a full rotation of the wheel, which is fine for planned braking but far from ideal for emergency situations. A car with servo assisted brakes might be able to brute-force through that rotation though, I don't know.

Edited by kambites on Tuesday 26th March 10:29

[s p a c e m a n]

What ferodo did you have? The ds2500 ones are the best pads that I have ever found, not cheap though.

[Red16]

s p a c e m a n said:

What ferodo did you have? The ds2500 ones are the best pads that I have ever found, not cheap though.

Totally agree with this comment, DS2500 are great road pads.

[dbvilla]

Another shout for DS2500's , great resilience to fade.