What have you done to your car today?
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Driven as Mk3 with them in and they work perfectly well from cold, fine for track days as well. Fraser at Blink Motorsport runs them on his rotrex Mk3 as a daily driven pad with no issues at all, they are quite cheap, so I figured, why not. Did consider yellowstuff but seen way too many horror stories about them being soft, getting chewed up or falling to bits.
Mintex say the following:
Nothing there that screams no good for fast road/occasional track use. I would have been slightly concerned about the optimum temperature numbers there but for the fact I drove a car from stone cold, and they were absolutely fine.
Mintex say the following:
Nothing there that screams no good for fast road/occasional track use. I would have been slightly concerned about the optimum temperature numbers there but for the fact I drove a car from stone cold, and they were absolutely fine.
Were the badges a pain to take off? Really tempted to get rid of the Z4 on the boot on mine. I think it looks better and it'll be a million times easier to clean the back of the car... It ruined the netted side of my wash mitt at the weekend
Mintex M1144 pads are excellent on track and resist fade very well. I certainly wouldn't run an M1166 pad for predominantly road work, even "fast road" - it is suited to a track only application. The M1144 is more than capable of dealing with fast road and track work.
The M1166 has an optimum operating temperature of 300c - good luck keeping that kind of heat in a pad on an MX5 on the road!
The M1166 has an optimum operating temperature of 300c - good luck keeping that kind of heat in a pad on an MX5 on the road!
Have you actually tried these pads on a car, out of interest? I was sceptical about this compound myself, thinking they would just be too much, until I drove a car with them fitted. If I find the longer term characteristics unacceptable (if, for example, they start to squeal like an old bus, lose bite, chew through discs at a stupid rate, produce dust which wrecks my wheels or similar) then I will swap them out.
Having got the car back just now they seem fine, have been out to do some big stops with them fitted, to get some heat through them... ..they are perhaps a bit grabby but perfectly usable and bite far better than the cosworth pads I had before (which were pretty poor but the choice is not exactly great for this car... DS2500s would be my go to choice but they don't do them in this fitment).
Having got the car back just now they seem fine, have been out to do some big stops with them fitted, to get some heat through them... ..they are perhaps a bit grabby but perfectly usable and bite far better than the cosworth pads I had before (which were pretty poor but the choice is not exactly great for this car... DS2500s would be my go to choice but they don't do them in this fitment).
Were the badges a pain to take off? Really tempted to get rid of the Z4 on the boot on mine. I think it looks better and it'll be a million times easier to clean the back of the car... It ruined the netted side of my wash mitt at the weekend
Yeah really easy: Heat gun, trim removal tool, adhesive remover and a bit of a polish to finish off. Less than 15 minutes to debadge the whole car
Most overrated pad ever.
On a heavy or high powered car I think you are probably right but on something light they are good in my experience, thought they were great on my old fiesta St, needed to be bedded in exactly as per the instructions though else they feel very wooden. Think they'd be great on an mx5.
killed it, turbo went pop. Looking at second hand prices on ebay not sure its worth repairing.
that's two cars this year that have died.
think i'll go back to petrol, I seemingly have no luck with cheap diesels(although saying that is year in general is ****), and my great lieftime run of buying cars and not losing money on them, is well and truly destroyed.
that's two cars this year that have died.
think i'll go back to petrol, I seemingly have no luck with cheap diesels(although saying that is year in general is ****), and my great lieftime run of buying cars and not losing money on them, is well and truly destroyed.
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5 new tyres (Eagle F1 AS3s) fitted, but all of my TPMS sensors were corroded and falling apart so I'm on standard valves for now. They quoted £365.57 to replace, fit and reprogram them.
Also got a quote for the ten year service - £458.39 - for new spark plugs, gasket, oil change, oil filter, coolant change, brake fluid change, washer fluid change, and gearbox oil change. Should be able to haggle and get them to do the TPMS sensors at the same time.
Also got a quote for the ten year service - £458.39 - for new spark plugs, gasket, oil change, oil filter, coolant change, brake fluid change, washer fluid change, and gearbox oil change. Should be able to haggle and get them to do the TPMS sensors at the same time.
