Bought Discs from ECP but...

Matt82 · 7 Feb 2013 at 06:36

Ev0 said:
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!

That would an all I need to hear

I absolutely hate Febi. Wouldn't touch them with a bargepole

pepsilol · 7 Feb 2013 at 12:15

Matt82 said:
That would an all I need to hear

I absolutely hate Febi. Wouldn't touch them with a bargepole

I've had good experiences with the suspension stuff, Lemforder aswell.

Pads and discs are Ferrodo and Brembo for me.

Sensors are Pierberg or Denso.

Batteries & Wipers are Bosch

Matt82 · 7 Feb 2013 at 12:52

pepsilol said:
I've had good experiences with the suspension stuff, Lemforder aswell.

Pads and discs are Ferrodo and Brembo for me.

Sensors are Pierberg or Denso.

Batteries & Wipers are Bosch

Febi parts have a nasty habit of lasting about a year. the guys i know on the clubgti board used to see febi as a good brand but then one by one we had all ended up doing jobs twice in a year due to new febi parts failing. bushes, top mounts, track rod bits, even a friggin stat malfunctioning after a year, when it was replaced with a new VW item it turns out the febi one was the wrong temp anyway

Jono8 · 7 Feb 2013 at 13:05

I have just had the rear discs and pads done on my car and I was actually told to avoid ECP for pads and discs by the VW/Audi specialist that was going to/has now fitted them for this very reason (they were just fitting them for their cash rate, i supplied the parts so they didnt have any reason to fob me off.)

I ended up buying genuine VW discs and pads from Skodaparts instead. £20 more than ECP and it is probably £20 down the toilet for no reason but who knows

. All fitted now anyway.

p1RATE · 7 Feb 2013 at 13:20

Tom_ed1987 said:
With discs you can't really do better than Pagid.

lets not get carried away...

Third Opinion · 7 Feb 2013 at 13:30

To be honest I fitted Mtec discs to the front of my V6 Alfa. They were only £50 despite being drilled and grooved. I have read some good things about them so I am going to see how well they last. I am not expecting miracles but I wasn't going to pay a fortune as I only use the car now and again. For pads I went for Brembo which were only £35. It has majorly improved the brakes which are not brilliant at best.

£85 isn't bad for a front brake set up I felt. Lets hope they don't crack or fly apart lol.

Conscript · 7 Feb 2013 at 13:33

Liverpool-Lad said:
The pagid disks are worth holding out for. A nice overall good silver coating which will stop the hubs and disk edges turning orange.

This. I also have Pagid discs all round and noticed the hubs and non-friction surfaces are staying rust free. Looks a lot neater.

pepsilol · 7 Feb 2013 at 15:15

Give me Brembo discs over Pagid any day.

Clarkey · 7 Feb 2013 at 15:30

pepsilol said:
Give me Brembo discs over Pagid any day.

Nah, they are good but don't have anti rust coating. Sounds like these pagid ones do. Meyle platinum also do and for a good amount less money too. I have them on the rear of my car, pretty good.

Firestar_3x · 7 Feb 2013 at 15:34

OEM VW ones have been great, after 30k my rears still look new.

Other than that i usually use EBC, i like the products and i want to support a british manufacturer.

Third Opinion · 7 Feb 2013 at 15:38

Clarkey said:
Nah, they are good but don't have anti rust coating. Sounds like these pagid ones do. Meyle platinum also do and for a good amount less money too. I have them on the rear of my car, pretty good.

You can get Brembo with anti-rust coating. Even my MTec ones had anti rust coating.

mattyprice4004 · 7 Feb 2013 at 15:42

Matt82 said:
there is some positive information about them on Google, but thats not the point.

you pay the premium for pagid because you know itll be good. what do you konw about blueprint adl??

they wouldnt be going on a my cars

So you've found positive reviews, yet wouldn't fit them?

lolmatt82logic

Matt82 · 8 Feb 2013 at 10:34

mattyprice4004 said:
So you've found positive reviews, yet wouldn't fit them?

lolmatt82logic

what? you think anyone would pay pagid brakes money, receive no-brand brakes and be perfectly happy fitting them because a few people on the net said they were OK?

a fool and their money...

Matt82 · 8 Feb 2013 at 10:35

I bought a couple lambda sensors from carparts4less and two of the four electrical connectors are missing

pepsilol · 8 Feb 2013 at 11:14

Matt82 said:
what? you think anyone would pay pagid brakes money, receive no-brand brakes and be perfectly happy fitting them because a few people on the net said they were OK?

a fool and their money...

You are giving me cancer,

ADL is not a no brand! It is a major brand for aftermarket parts !

Give me ADL anyday, on the basis that ECP were caught selling fake Pagid stuff anyway!

Matt82 · 8 Feb 2013 at 11:45

Ive been faffing around with car stuff for a long time, ive not come across that brand once, and google has hardly any information about them either, so no, i still wouldnt buy them or pay a premium for them, even if you did get cancer from it

Amoeba · 8 Feb 2013 at 11:49

Does everyone on this forum run a formula 1 car or something?? By Christ some of the comments on here are daft..

Firestar_3x · 8 Feb 2013 at 11:52

I don't fit linglong tyres either, but thats only because i drive an F1 car.

Amoeba · 8 Feb 2013 at 11:53

Obviously.

pepsilol · 8 Feb 2013 at 14:22

Matt82 said:
Ive been faffing around with car stuff for a long time, ive not come across that brand once, and google has hardly any information about them either, so no, i still wouldnt buy them or pay a premium for them, even if you did get cancer from it

Im not buying that tosh. If you've never come across Blueprint then you clearly have't been faffing long enough.

Unless faffing consists of just going to ECP to buy some Brake discs.