Post 265825 by Dangerous Dave on 2009-10-22 23:12:35
Fitted new drilled and grooved discs yesterday, and ebc yellowstuff pads. Gonna see if there is any difference. Standard 280mm btw.
Had drilled/grooved discs on before for about two years (not sure where they were from though as I bought them from a guy who needed the 302s, but got the wrong size).
At first I had mintex pads on. These were ok but faded in the last 10-15mph when braking very hard from 100mph. They dust off the wasn't too bad, but they ate into the disc quite a lot, and didn't last very long.
Next pads I had were genuine Volvo ones, and these I found were very dusty, and seemed not to be as good as the mintex pads. They would fade in the last 20mph when braking very hard. When I removed them yesterday they still had 50% of the friction pad left on them, so they've got a good lifetime.
Will report on the yellowstuffs and the discs (from mtec100 on the bay) once they've settled in.
Here's a couple of pics
Cracks on the n/s disc were large, o/s discs had some small cracks in the outer holes. You can see how worn the disc was though, and afaik the cracks have only appeared in the last two months.
