Good quality brake pads
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I've recently opted for the greenstuff pads on both my normal and track cars and I've only been impressed thus far. Very predictable, consistent braking and little to no fade on track, and no fate whatsoever on the road. Brake dust is exceptionally minimal and I'm yet to hear any noise from them.
As for wear rate, couldn't tell you as they've both only done circa 1500 miles.
They're pretty cheap, too.
As for wear rate, couldn't tell you as they've both only done circa 1500 miles.
They're pretty cheap, too.
every set of EBC pad's i've ever used one of the pads braking surface has broken away from the backing plate, probably used about 7-8 sets on different cars over the years, loved the performance, hated that problem and having to bin half worn pads
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The Corolla owners club people seem to all go for the MTEC disc and Mintex pad combo, the sets available on ebay
This.
Forodo DS2500's.
Why would you want these on a normal car you drive every day. Don't these need warming up before they're any good?
Mine are fine from cold, better bite and feel when hot but nothing at all worrying about their cold performance. Absolute overkill unless you plan on doing track days, not to mention expensivea! Pagid or standard Ferrodos will be fine.
You're joking right?
Coming from OEM pads, the DS2500s are utterly terrible first thing in the morning. As In, I started braking for the junction at the end of my drive extremely early. It was like using wooden chocks instead of pads.
Once warm and hot they were bloody excellent.
Pfft amateur. DS3000
Pfft amateur. DSUNO
The DS2500 pads are very good for fast road use though. Never noticed any issue when cold whatsoever, loads of bite from the off.
I have had two sets of DS2500s.
The first set didn't seem to work well from cold but I didn't have proper chance to follow the bed on procedure and I was probably a bit too hard on them after that. I didnt bed them in well enough, and then I think I cooked them before bedding them in...!
The set I have now I was really careful to follow the bed in procedure to the absolute letter and they seem much much better from cold. Like Dogbreath says, in my view they have plenty of bite from cold, far from useless.
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Just been doing the same research for my Celica on the club forum actually. The Ferodo DS2500 are highly recommended indeed but they are £100+ a pair. The mainstream one is the Ferodo Premier at around £30 a pair which I believe are equivalent to the OEMs. Unless OP is planning to do spirited driving, they should be ok on the rears but maybe get better pads for the fronts.
A few reports of the EBC pads falling apart as mentioned above but rumours that they might just be a dodgy batch or fakes. Undecided if I want to risk them.
A few reports of the EBC pads falling apart as mentioned above but rumours that they might just be a dodgy batch or fakes. Undecided if I want to risk them.
Sounds like my Carbotech XP8s
I've heard about them, and my CL are the less dusty, more fast road type RC5+. The more hadcore pads must be crazy!
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