Advice on brakes

How exactly have you cooked them ? Destroyed pads/discs? Cooked brake fluid ?

Even when driving like a hooligan, a disc upgrade is usually unnecessary, better brake pads (and sometimes, better grade brake or just new fluid) are usually more than enough.

I always drove like a hooligan in my Galant, smelly brakes often and black (from the brake dust) alloys every week, still never managed to break em... Replaced front pads once but after that never, they lasted years, the cheapest most rubbish pads I could buy...
 
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His 22, driving a s**tbag car like a nutter thinking his a driving god and going through discs and pads in a year, you are a textbook bad young driver and will probably cause a serious accident at some point. Sure everyone likes a spirited drive every now and again but I think your taking the biscuit. Do us all a favour and hand your licence in, that or learn to drive sensibly. Public roads are not a race track. :rolleyes:

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The amount of moral police here is astounding, everybody's been young and whining about it will not affect their driving style, it will come with age and experience... If he wants to waste his cash on driving like a hooligan then no telling off from ''the community'' will change that, it will only change with experience and changing priorities. I've had my time too where I did the same, or well, never shot the brakes but I went through a set of tyres every 7000 km's or so... Only stopped because it wasn't worth the cash and I've seen too much ''close calls'' during those times and it's just not worth it and these days with all the repmobiles from work it's just plain boring ( A3 G-Tron, Octy diesel, Outlander PHEV, etc...). If I was a millionaire ( or had much spare cash) I'd probably do it again ( though perhaps less, stay within the 50 km/h to fast limit as I need license for work).

nobody likes a dangerous driver.
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Driving fast/braking hard ≠ dangerous driving, there is a reason why the amount of accidents on 65+ers keep increasing, while accidents for the 18-22 group are decreasing...

I'd rather see a youngster race around with full attention to the road than an old grey haired **** who can't even turn his head properly doing half the speed limit and completely oblivious of his surroundings and ''oh did i scuff that car''.

Admittedly, some young ones overdo it and crash, but the amount of scuffs and dents I see on old peoples cars is far worse imo.
 
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Perhaps try to change your driving style to a more fluid style? I often try to keep rolling up to traffic lights/roundabouts etc and try to go through without stopping if safe/legal/possible. It can actually add an element of challenge to your daily driving rather than just brake-accelerate-brake-accelerate etc.
 
a 1.7 CDTi Astra, Remapped or not, does not need VXR brakes.

Decent OEM brakes with fluid and someone who isn't driving like a total fool is the solution here. You shouldn't be cooking brakes that fast.

When I was ACTUALLY DRIVING ON A TRACK in my S2000 I couldn't cook them in a year, and that would be 3-4 full day sessions, and the associated driving that you expect of a sports car on the road.
 
Same here - I really don't hang about, but there's a time, a place and a method of doing so! Front pads on the fn2 are barely any more worn than they were a year ago

Also, if I drove like I was on track then unfortunately that would probably result in me going backwards :(
 
How many miles do you do a year? I've done some fairly spirited driving in various cars before over long periods of time and my brakes have always been fine after time. The only way I'd expect your brakes to be knackered is if you were driving aggressively for 30k+ miles a year (and even that'd be a challenge as such mileage would almost certainly have to be mostly motorway trips). Normal mileage (like around 10-12k) should make it impossible to trash pads in such time unless they were made of cheese.
 
Not sure how a re-map helps you cook your brakes unless you are driving beyond you or the cars capability. A re-mapped 1.7 Diesel Astra is hardly a racing machine and driving like this on the road is just driving like an idiot tbh.

Looking at your driving style would be a better option.
 
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