Bought Discs from ECP but...

Yes and a cheap and crappy disc will probably be worse than an 'OEM quality' disc. But 2 different 'OEM quality' discs? I wouldn't want to be challenged with distinguishing them..
 
Take the chance that what? What do you think may happen?

Anyway Blue Print ARE a known quantity, albeit lesser known than Pagid.
 
Bad wear rates, warping, cracking the list goes on.

You should consider which discs you buy just as much as you do pads.
 
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Firestar_3x said:
Bad wear rates, warping, cracking the list goes on.

The point I'm making is you dont go to you local metal supplier and buy some, 'brake disc metal'.

You should consider which discs you buy just as much as you do pads.
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I very much doubt you would be able to warp a disc, let alone on a road car. Cracking? Maybe with super cheap discs, or on a track if it gets very hot.. Wear rates? Possibly.. but it's unlikely there will be much difference between the 2 discs mentioned in this thread.

I put a lot more effort into choosing my pads than I did my discs, but to be honest, my car is predominantly a road car, I expect whatever I had chosen (of similar price / intended use) would have been absolutely fine.
 
I've warped discs before when using good pads with not so great discs....not recently mind you.

Either way the point remains the same, op has not received what he paid for though blueprint definitely do decent parts
 
I find it unlikely that most discs that are diagnosed as 'warped', really are warped. Mostly it will just be pad compound build up on the surface caused by the pads getting too hot..
 
I only just bought the exact same discs for the front and rear including pads for my ep3 type r from Euro Car Parts.

I wont be happy if I don't receive what I have paid for. :mad:
 
ADL discs are pretty good actually, equal to OEM.

but yea, you wanted PAGID, should have received PAGID. IMO


Personally I'd have bought Tarox but that's another story.
 
I don't disagree with getting a refund / exchange if you specifically wanted the Pagid (I even said I would do it myself in the same situation). However if all that was required was 'some discs of OEM quality' then my recommendation is to just fit them for reasons I have gone over already :p
 
I bought some Pagid discs, pads and shoes for my humble Astra. Transformed the brakes, they really are very very good.

Blueprint discs are still very good also. But that's like buying a Tefal toaster and you get sent a Morphy Richards one.. yeah it's still very nice, just not what you ordered :)
 
I wouldn't hesitate to use Blueprint parts, never had a bad experience with them and they are literally OEM parts in a different box in many cases.
 
One of my best mates at uni's dad was the chairman of blueprint until they sold the company to Febi Bilstein a couple of years ago.

Nothing wrong with them, they make a lot of oe spec parts, but as said that doesn't really matter if its not what you ordered!
 
Just for clarification, should there be any issues using the Pagid brake pads i have, with Blueprint or any other discs. I've heard that some pads are very hard and can destroy discs or create hotspots which causes juddering?
 
ADL are awesome. a lot of motor factors work on a premium and lower level basis.

EG - If I was to purchase a premium droplink I would expect to receive Febi, Meyle, Lemforder etc. I wouldn't ***** about receiving one brand over the other.

If I purchased a cheaper drop link then I'd expect any rubbish.
 
Amoeba said:
I put a lot more effort into choosing my pads than I did my discs, but to be honest, my car is predominantly a road car, I expect whatever I had chosen (of similar price / intended use) would have been absolutely fine.
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I put a lot of effort into choosing pads for my track car too, but have always used cheap disks. I have never had a disk warp, even when they`ve been glowing red on track. A PROPER cooldown before coming into the pits makes a big difference.
 
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