Brembo or Bosch brake disc and pads?

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Need to get new discs and pads fitted to my mk4 Mondeo.

Buying from either CarParts4Less or EuroCarParts (aware same company, but their prices are slightly different), depending on who's got the best price on the day.

Brembo or Bosch? (I discounted Eicher and Pagid already but if I shouldn't then do say so).

Either option coming in around £160 excl fitting.

 

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Nothing wrong with Pagid.

Yeah I thought so too but the mechanic at my local (very good, indy, small) garage is very honest and advised to avoid Eicher and Pagid. Everyone has an opinion of course.

Anyway, theres hardly any price difference between Pagid and the other options.


Car Parts 4 Less
brembo - £170.99
bosch - £154.45
pagid - £153.31

Euro Car Parts
brembo - £177.62
bosch - £164.42
pagid - £165.52

 

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Cant find correct part for either EBC or Mintex.

Surprisingly though Halfords have the Pagid discs for £83 the pair which is £30-£40 cheaper than ECP or CP4L.

And a new entrant to my list is GSF Car Parts (whose website looks remarkably similar to ECP) who have the Brembo discs and pads for a total of £137 which is £30-£40 less than the other players.

 

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Updated list:

Car Parts 4 Less
brembo - £171
bosch - £154
pagid - £153

Euro Car Parts
brembo - £178
bosch - £164
pagid - £166

GSF Car Parts
brembo - £138

Halfords
pagid - £124

Ford genuine (via ebay seller)
ford - £173

 

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Pureley out of interest, what are ford dealers charging for equivelent OEM suff? I suspect more expensive but It can't hurt to ask your local dealer.

There's a Ford genuine parts seller on ebay and the discs are £126 for the pair and the pads £47 so all in £173 which is around the same price as the Bosch or Brembo at ECP/CP4L.

 

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For a small price difference my initial preference was Bosch or Brembo but now with Halfords selling the Pagid items at £124 that is substantially cheaper than the other options and gives me some headroom to get them fitted at a garage rather than doing it myself.

 

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Have you tried MTEC discs? I run them on all my cars, never had a problem!

This is the page for my model https://www.mtecbrakes.com/brake-discs/ford/mondeo-estate-2007/mondeo-estate-2-5t-06-07-12-10

They only do drilled/grooved discs though which technically speaking would be an insurance mod. Don't seem to sell the yellow stuff pads for the fronts either but do for the rear for some reason.

 

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Check amazon, you can get some silly cheap car parts sometimes.

I tried but its a mess to search for good stuff on there and I wasn't confident I could select the right parts amongst all the junk.

 

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I have ordered the Brembo parts from GSF car parts. £138 for discs and pads. Pay on collection so if they look poor quality on arrival I can walk away.

 

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Did you keep them in the end?

Yeah they were good. Shame, car suffered fatal engine failure only a couple months after I did the brake work so wasted money.