Hella brake pads

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Craig elam1

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110 posts

59 months

Friday 3rd July 2020
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I've been struggling to get pajid rear pads for my db9, usual sources I.e euro car parts and the likes have no stock.
Got brembo rear discs from autodoc but they had no pads, not in a rush so thought I'd just wait until they came back on stock, hasn't happened
However they started listing Hella pads, a bit of research and its hella pajid and they are the rs4 2 2 compound, so it looks pajid have done some sort of distribution deal with hella.
Going to order a set , will report findings

EVR

1,824 posts

60 months

Friday 3rd July 2020
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Craig elam1 said:
I've been struggling to get pajid rear pads for my db9, usual sources I.e euro car parts and the likes have no stock.
Got brembo rear discs from autodoc but they had no pads, not in a rush so thought I'd just wait until they came back on stock, hasn't happened
However they started listing Hella pads, a bit of research and its hella pajid and they are the rs4 2 2 compound, so it looks pajid have done some sort of distribution deal with hella.
Going to order a set , will report findings
Good to know.

Pagid seem out of stock everywhere since forever.

huntsen

135 posts

93 months

Friday 3rd July 2020
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Take the shortage of Pagid pads as good fortune - they are filthy and squeak.
Go to David Appleby Engineering in Brackley http://www.davidapplebyengineering.com/shop/Filter...
for a set Porterfield R4-S pads. They're much cleaner, work well and don't squeak.

JonnyCJ

1,309 posts

54 months

Friday 3rd July 2020
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R1CKF

119 posts

151 months

Friday 3rd July 2020
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I have a few sets of the original Pagid pads in stock now, as you say, they have been unavailable for a very longtime .

Sadly front pads are still not yet available.

R129 300SL

277 posts

132 months

Friday 3rd July 2020
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I think I have mentioned it before on this forum but I am not sure Porterfield brake pads are ECE 90 type approved for use in Europe.

Essentially what that means is that they are not Road legal on Europe.

With the high performance nature of these cars I would not want to be in an accident where the police inspect the car and find non road legal pads.

Craig elam1

Original Poster:

110 posts

59 months

Saturday 4th July 2020
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Autodoc are still showing fronts in stock, my rear discs took about 10 days to arrive but that was at start of lock down,