Discounts Parts

Paul M. Akehurst de Visme · Mar 9, 2005

Discount parts - am I being optimistic, but have a major service and replacement discs/pads all round coming up. I have seen the Porschshop brochure - are these prices the norm or are there better offers around and/or Club discounts. Grateful for any suggestions.[

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Diver944 · Mar 9, 2005

You need to chack all the parts places as one place will be good for front disks but rubbish on pads for example.

www.berlyn-services.co.uk
www.gsfcarparts.com
www.specialistcarsltd.co.uk
www.design911.co.uk
www.type-911.co.uk
www.eurocarparts.com

I have never found Porscheshop to be particularly competitive and they often charge more for genuine Porsche parts than Porsche do. A lot of people are fooled into thinking that parts from Porsche will be expensive so fall for overpricing by the independants [

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The great thing with the internet is its very easy to shop around. Don't forget to add VAT and postage

Big Dave · Mar 9, 2005

Try this site
He can do lots of 944/968 bits at good prices...

http://www.k300performance.co.uk/

It worth a call......

Melv · Mar 10, 2005

And www.germanandswedish.co.uk

Paul M. Akehurst de Visme · Mar 10, 2005

And www.germanandswedish.co.uk

Melv, Did you try that link (above) it took me to a finder site 'About.co.uk' - Very odd!![8D]

Fen · Mar 10, 2005

It's www.gsfcarparts.com now I think, since they added French to the German and Swedish part.

pae · Mar 10, 2005

Just going through the exercise myself - there's a huge variation, not helped by the fact that you can seem to get better prices if you phone up and ask [

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One of the best I've found so far is www.powerstop.co.uk - they have 'turbo groove' discs on the web at £69, but on enquiring he's doing them at £44, less a further 10% for internet orders. Ok, that's for a 924S but if he's discounting that much it's worth asking. The website doesn't actually list a price for discs against the 944S2 so you'll have to enquire, but he responds very quick to e-mail. They also have EBC pads at the best prices I've found.

I've compiled a spreadsheet to work out the best combination as I've compiled prices from 10 suppliers so far [

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'std' pads, best buys are Berlyn, Eurocarparts, powermarques, GFS, and Specialist Cars
'std' discs, best buys are Berlyn, Eurocarparts, powermarques, GFS, Porscheshop
EBC pads, best buy is powerstop or ebcbrakesdirect.com
drilled/grooved discs best buys are powerstop and Eurocarparts

all the above are for 924S parts but I would think it will be reflected in 944 variants, and the above listed 'best buys' DON'T include the 10% discount offered on Powerstop or Eurocarparts (as recently mentioned on the forum).

good job I'm not busy at work at the moment, otherwise I'd never be able to provide this service [

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any more info, just ask.

cheers ........ Phil

andrew, couldn't find much 924S stuff to compare on your site. PS - I'm getting closer to ordering that chip [

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Paul M. Akehurst de Visme · Mar 10, 2005

Using the info from previous contributors, I have tried to sieve through the different prices/suppliers/makers (Berlyn, Design 911, Eurocarparts, GSF, Porscheshop, ProMax, Specialist Cars, Type 911), and come up with a provisional league table: This is for 944 S2 only though.
Front discs - from £43+ VAT (Berlyn) to £59.95 incl VAT (Pro Max)
Rear Discs - from £39.75 + VAT (Eurocarparts) to £69.95 incl VAT (ProMax)
Front Pads - from £32.50 +VAT (GSF) to £49.95 incl. VAT (ProMax)
Rear pads same as front except Porscheshop which quote £44.80 for front and £38.80 for rear.
Berlyn and Type 911 have overall lowest quotes, but Type 911 don't do online ordering, and as I am researching from Algarve, I am not adding to the cost by ringing round for deals, which is probably a disadvantage.
Service kits offer similar wild variations, some with air filters and plugs - worth knowing what you really want and just ordering the bits separately.
As far as websites and response go, Andrew of ProMax replies before you think of a question!!, Bert from Berlyn is very quick to respond, and the Design 911 site is easiest and slickest, whereas Specialist Cars is a slow site and tricky to find what you want. GSF and Eurocarparts offer free postage over £50, which isn't hard to achieve at these prices!
Still open to better offers and searching!!!

Guest · Mar 10, 2005

Dont forget we can now get 10% off the parts from Euro car parts. Probably makes them pretty competative.

I got my EBC redstuff ceramic brakes from brakesdirect nd a 10% discount too, still cost £160 mind!!

Diver944 · Mar 11, 2005

ORIGINAL: slim_boy_fat

I got my EBC redstuff ceramic brakes from ebcbrakesdirect and a 10% discount too, still cost £160 mind!!

Slim, when you've fitted them can you feedback what sort of dusting the REDs have?

I am positive that the REDs dust just as badly as an OEM pad and its only the GREENs that have reduced dust, but due to the marketing of the GREENs people think that all EBC pads are reduced dust.

I just want to find out for definite about the REDs from an actual owner [

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944Turbo · Mar 11, 2005

I got my green stuff pads from my local Motorists Discount Centre (MDC) there are a few around the south (possibly the country), £94 for complete set front and rear,
Tony

Guest · Mar 11, 2005

ORIGINAL: Diver944

ORIGINAL: slim_boy_fat

I got my EBC redstuff ceramic brakes from ebcbrakesdirect and a 10% discount too, still cost £160 mind!!

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Slim, when you've fitted them can you feedback what sort of dusting the REDs have?

I am positive that the REDs dust just as badly as an OEM pad and its only the GREENs that have reduced dust, but due to the marketing of the GREENs people think that all EBC pads are reduced dust.

I just want to find out for definite about the REDs from an actual owner []

Will do, mine are the ceramic ones so dont know what difference that will make. Besides for me the priority was to imporve the braking, less dust would be a welcome additional side benifit. I have herd that the dust is a lighter colour, the dust from the textar pads that were on the car was black, and there was a load of it.

Will get the car out for it first proper run in a couple of weeks, picking it up on good friday from the garage, with a new rear wheel bearing and the geometery all set.

pae · Mar 11, 2005

ORIGINAL: slim_boy_fat

I got my EBC redstuff ceramic brakes from brakesdirect nd a 10% discount too, still cost £160 mind!!

I think the guy a powerstop.co.uk said he had RED stuff Ceramic at £76 per front set (for 924S mind...). Didn't mention if that was before or after the 10% discount.

Phil

Paul M. Akehurst de Visme · Mar 11, 2005

Just had an email from Nick at Powerstop Brakes stating that his redstuff ceramic pads were most appropriate for my car (944S2 cab) and they would be £124 + £6.50 carriage + VAT less 10% for two sets. (At least that is what I understood!) My question is, - is it really worth paying almost double the cost of standard pads, when I only use the car for touring and regularity type rallies? I am ignorant as to the advantages of these 'redstuff' pads.

Diver944 · Mar 11, 2005

No it's not worth it.

I would stick with standard pads (or maybe go for the EBC Greens if you want cleaner wheels)

The Reds do not have the same co-efficient of friction when fully cold and need a bit of heating up before they work properly. Could be a bit scarey when you first brake at 70mph on the motorway [

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Guest · Mar 11, 2005

ORIGINAL: Paul M. Akehurst de Visme

Just had an email from Nick at Powerstop Brakes stating that his redstuff ceramic pads were most appropriate for my car (944S2 cab) and they would be £124 + £6.50 carriage + VAT less 10% for two sets. (At least that is what I understood!) My question is, - is it really worth paying almost double the cost of standard pads, when I only use the car for touring and regularity type rallies? I am ignorant as to the advantages of these 'redstuff' pads.

Well the better your brakes the faster you can go, but if you aint into going fast or stopping quickly then probably not worth it.

pae · Mar 13, 2005

ORIGINAL: Diver944

No it's not worth it.

I would stick with standard pads (or maybe go for the EBC Greens if you want cleaner wheels)

Clean wheels not a problem with the colour that mine are painted [

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that answered one of my questions - the other one is "are drilled/grooved discs any better for fast road/touring or shall I stick with plain discs?"

......Phil

lali · Mar 13, 2005

also worth trying www.motorsportworld.co.uk

pae · Mar 15, 2005

ORIGINAL: Diver944

The Reds do not have the same co-efficient of friction when fully cold and need a bit of heating up before they work properly. Could be a bit scarey when you first brake at 70mph on the motorway []

This is what Nick wrote to me.....

"EBC strongly recommend the use of Redstuff ceramic on this car. This is not a race pad and works from cold. Front Redstuff ceramic pads - £76.00 (set)
Regards,
Nick
Powerstop Brakes Ltd"

You could argue that he would say that wouldn't he. Just adding it for info.

..........Phil

BTW - no-ones told me yet if drilled discs are worth bothering with? Any thoughts?

Guest · Mar 15, 2005

Well having now at least driven 20miles with the redstuff I can say that they will stop you fine when cold, mine are still being bedded in but are fine. I have no idea how they will perform when warm but I bet is awesome.

As for drilled disks, well i wouldn't bother, but there are at least two different opinions about them. One thing for sure they are more prone to cracking than solid disks and cost more, and have a negligible/arguable increase in performance. So its your choice.

As for dust its too early to say, once they are bedded in I will report back (that's if I have the car that long!!)