E86 Z4 Coupe

[craigs74]

I am looking to change my Pads and discs on my E86 coupe what would people recommend no track work just road use.

Cheers
C

Edited by craigs74 on Thursday 2nd February 16:22

[Mr Whippy]

I got my discs/pads from GSF, the Brembo ones.

But I'm not so keen on the Brembo pads though, I preferred the Textar pads ECP sold.


I'd probably get yellow stuff pads because they will be good, and are lower dust than BMW oem, and then some Brembo discs.

Should be able to get all the bits for about £150 tops I think.


I never realised when doing my discs/pads recently, that if the wear sensor has come on, it'll stay on unless reset (or it self resets after a few good ignition cycles)

Dave

[craigs74]

Thanks Dave were the brembo discs grooved or just flat?

Cheers
C

[Mr Whippy]

Flat discs.

That was for my car though, which is 300mm iirc, but the 3.0Si uses 330mm discs at the front. Should be a very similar price though I think.

Drilled discs are expensive if they are good, and grooved chomp discs quickly.

My last set of Textar/ATE (from ECP) lasted me almost 3yrs/34,000 miles, which is very good for about £120 for both.

The Brembo combo for me was cheaper still (£95 all in I think), but I swear the pads are not as good. When bedding them in they were smoking after two hard decellerations, wheras my ATE didn't at all, just got very smelly after the 3rd set.

It's just resulted in a softer feeling pedal and needing more pressure. Still very good stopping power, but not as good as before in my view.

Also, they still dust up loads, which apparently yellow stuff do not.


I'll be getting yellow stuff and brembo next time round, or just swap to yellows to see what happens

Dave