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zcacogp

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Chaps,

I need some new rear pads for my S2. GSF want north of £50 for a set of textar pads, ECP want a little more. Various other 'usual' suppliers want more (or significantly more) than this for their wares.

I then came across www.brakeparts.co.uk ... who, if you put the details in, want £20.48p for a set of four, for the rear axle. Alarmingly cheap. So I called them up, spoke with a friendly chap called Steve (I think), who assured me that they were new, Mintex parts, and he had them on the shelf. He said they were 'normal Mintex, not 1144 or anything like that', and did add that the price was excluding VAT and postage. He also said that the pads were the same front and rear for an S2 (are they? I don't think I knew this), and the price delivered to my door would be around £30 (he gave me an exact price but I didn't write it down!)

So, has anyone used these people? Are they as good as they sound like they should be?

In short, what's the catch?


Oli.
 
Hi there, you will probably find that they stackem high and sellem cheap which is no bad thing,if they then specialise in brakes rather than the larger range that gsf and euro have they can give you an even better deal.As you know mintex is a branded name and the pads are the same for front and rear on an s2.If you overhaul your calipers you will see that brake bias is achieved by having different size pistons,all the best John.
 
Just to jump in here but I am about to change my pads all round, I have narrowed it down to either Pagid or Mintex.

I can get the Pagids here for approx £65

http://www.eurocarparts.com/ecp/c/Porsche_944_2.5_1987/p/Car-Parts/Service-Parts/Regular-Service/Brake-Pads

Or the Mintex here for £ 35 !!

http://www.atozcarparts.co.uk/catalog/mintexbrakepads/Make/PORSCHE/Model/944%20S%20Coupe/Detail/2.5%20S.html

Either way seems pretty good value to me [:D]

 
I don't think you need to worry too much Oli - it's only the faster 944 variants that need the extra stopping power from fancy brake pads [:D]

Any reasonable pad on the rear will do a job - much of the work is done at the front anyway.

I see the Mintex pads are even cheaper at the site MRGT posted
 
Well, they're ordered, and it was just over £30 delivered.

Arrive tomorrow. We'll see how we get on.

edh - I'm ignoring you. And that's official. ([:)])


Oli.
 
They are wholesale suppliers - selling to the trade. That's why they are so cheap. They shouldn't really be selling direct to the public.....but I've bought products from them in the past with no problems.
 
OK, well, they arrived. They look like some pretty standard Mintex pads, that appear to be correct for the back of my S2 (won't know for sure until fitted.)

Cost was £33.17p, delivered to the door. Postage was about £9 of this, so it would have made more sense to buy more parts (didn't think of it at the time.) Still, that seems to be around £20 cheaper than the normal suppliers.

I'll be fitting them this weekend. (If I managed to rebuild a friends' bathroom in time!)

Thanks everyone for your comments.


Oli.
 
To polish this one off ... pads fitted as of yesterday, and working fine.

Although, as edh said, they were possibly cheaper at atozcarparts ... ho hummm. Shows that there can be big savings to be made from shopping outside of the usual suppliers. I thought that ECP and GSF usually had the rest of the world licked on price; I was wrong.


Oli.
 
Thanks for the Link Oli ~ ordered front and rear pads for both my car and my old man's Leon at the weekend. Excellent savings. [:)]
 
The AtoZ parts didnt include VAT or delivery, front and rear for my S would have been £50 inc. Still not bad :) As it happens I went for the Pagids for £65 inc (chose the free delivery option 2-5 days and they turned up within 24 hrs ! )
 
I know they are expensive - but these will be my next set of pads for my 944:

Fronts:
http://www.balancemotorsport.co.uk/products.asp?recnumber=93100

Rear:
http://www.balancemotorsport.co.uk/products.asp?recnumber=91273

EBC Yellowstuff.. I ran these on my Saab 9000 which was running 362BHP and they were FANTASTIC.. Such a difference from OEM / Saab ones so really want to try them on the 944. The have excellent cold bite - better again than OEM and on the MANY track days I did in the 9000 with 362BHP under my foot and the weight of the 9000 then never let me down once!
Ive tried many performance pads in my time - and these are in a leage of there own.. (IMHO)

At the moment my 944 has GreenStuff in. Feel OK, but fade a little when very hot and the dust is amazing! My poor 16" cup ones ;)

A
 
Hi Oli,nice to see you are willing to try the cheaper cooking pads,I often wonder how standard parts compare to the "racing/o/e " in everyday life, I am sure that we (myself included) are seduced by the hype and the exotic colours and the words racing,performance ,track tested and the like, I don't think we will ever have the perfect world where true quality and performance is directly proportional to price,keep shopping around It's the way to go,all the best John.
 
http://www.atozcarparts.co.uk/product_info/mintexbrakepads/11679/PORSCHE_928_GTS_Coupe_5.4_GTS_Front_Mintex_Brake_Pads.html

Are those the right pads for 944 Turbo with big blacks?
 
John,

Cheaper pads are working fine at the mo.

But then, contrary to what you say, I've never been that impressed by anything that says "Race Proven" or "Go Faster" - sorry! It strikes me that the most important part of getting good performance is to ensure that everything is working as it should be. The phrase 'Base Condition' is used a lot in diagnostics and it means that everything is as it should be, from the box. Once you have 'Base Condition' you can go about diagnosing problems, BUT often when you get back to 'Base Condition' then you find that the problem has gone away.

Putting it another way, I think that a lot of people (in general, perhaps less so on here where folks actually seem to know what they are talking about!) will fit 'race proven' this-and-that and fail to see that there is some other problem which needs correcting. For instance, a car with standard brake pads with the calipers and fluid in good order (i.e. in 'base condition') will stop much better than a car with semi-jammed calipers, 5-year-old fluid and some 'racing pads'. Added to the fact that actually I don't do many track days and tend to drive briskly but carefully, and well within the limits of the car, which 'standard' parts were designed to cope with.

On that basis, I am more seduced by things being clean and functioning as they should be than by glossy colourful labels ...

Do I sound like an old fart? Probably.


Oli.
 

ORIGINAL: barks944

Are those the right pads for 944 Turbo with big blacks?
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They certainly are.

If they are listed correctly then that is an absolute steal

I might order a spare set for the road myself [:)]
 

ORIGINAL: zcacogp

Putting it another way, I think that a lot of people (in general, perhaps less so on here where folks actually seem to know what they are talking about!) will fit 'race proven' this-and-that and fail to see that there is some other problem which needs correcting. For instance, a car with standard brake pads with the calipers and fluid in good order (i.e. in 'base condition') will stop much better than a car with semi-jammed calipers, 5-year-old fluid and some 'racing pads'. Added to the fact that actually I don't do many track days and tend to drive briskly but carefully, and well within the limits of the car, which 'standard' parts were designed to cope with.
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An excellent explination I think!.. we used to see exactly as you described when I was doing a good few track days in my other cars.. hundreds spent on brake pads yet the fluid would let them down at the first hurdle...

Excellent advise tho - get the base condition correct as a MUST before any upgrade.. Thats what I have always worked on..

A
 
Hi Oli,the reason I say seduced is that a couple of years ago I fitted green stuff to my mazda when doing a brake overhaul,The only change I could tell was less dust,no doubt there is a change but I dont drive hard enough to tell,I think there is a lot of money spent on performance that is never used,must be an old fart myself,all the best John.
 
John,

Interesting, thanks. I see what you mean.

(Nothing wrong with being an old fart as far as I am concerned!


Oli.
 
Ordered from brakeparts.co.uk late Saturday night (may have been early Sun morning) ~ all arrived yesterday apparently (I'm away on business).

Good service.
 
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