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Brake change!! fronts and rears! Advice please!


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Right Car has just had a service (Lupo GTI) and the brakes need chaning front and rear!

I have got a fairly good price on set of Brembo pads and Discs just standard ones, £131.10

Now are there any reccomendations on disc and pad combinations or am i good to go with these?

Also going to the job myself, i have done enough of my own before on saxo'x etc, anyting i need to have special tool wise, i know the rear calipers have to be wound in but a metal plate will do that like the old saxo ones i presume!

Look forward to your advice/comments

Pete/Becca

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for the fronts, it would be better if you do the 280 mm upgrade.

you will need to buy g60 carriers but these are only around £50 - £80 depending on how you soruce them.

for pads i did try ebc green pads, standard vw ones mintex extreme and found the mintex alot better.

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dont bother buying ebc greenstuff's they are as bad... if not worse than standard pads, and the low dust thing is a bloody myth too!

They work fantasticly on my Polo GTI and Lupo.

They eat the discs lightly, but at £12 per disc thats not really a problem!

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dont bother buying ebc greenstuff's they are as bad... if not worse than standard pads, and the low dust thing is a bloody myth too!

really,got them on my lupo gti ,with a 280mm set up ,they are superb,had them on other cars to vr6,mk2 golf 16v

no problems at all

worse than the standard pads??? :roflmao:

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I went for the EBC grooved and dimpled discs and Greenstuff pads. Pretty good as far as I'm concerned. Took a good few hundred miles befroe they really started biting though.

If you're going for standard replacements there's a seller on eBay selling boxed sets of Mintex for all round for a good price.

eBay Item number: 220291338803

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maybe i'm just a bit heavy on the middle pedal then because i really didnt rate the greenstuffs at all, used redstuffs on track once they were much better but do need to be used a lot to keep them up to temp, i much prefer pagid or brembo's but i'm probably just being fussy!

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