I recently got a pair of pretty rusty 325 calipers for £50 (mine are the smaller ones from a 316) and sandblasted them back to clean metal. Then painted with high temp paint and rebuild kit £30 (pistons, seals, guide pins, bleed valves etc). I was pretty happy with the result which cost me around £100 for the pair. I then went with mintex discs and pads and a full set of braided brake lines my mate had. Full refurb prolly cost me £300 and are significantly better than they were but I don't think they will be as good as a 4 pot setup.

Pros: significantly better brakes

Cons: not as good as 4 pot

Vehicle: BMW

Mintex › Brake pads

kneuenhaus 13 May 2018, 17:24

Rating 5.0

Braking:
Noise:
Dust:

I’ve always used Zimmerman rotors and Mintex pads, and have yet to find a better combo. I’ve tried Brembo, Stoptech, Bosch, but nothing has pleased me like Mintex [pedal feel, stopping power, no noise, very low dust [especially when used on drilled rotors]].

Pros: pedal feel, stopping power

Cons: nothing has pleased me

Mintex › Brake pads

cubedfreek 7 Feb 2017, 20:33

Rating 5.0

Braking:

I did Redbox pads on my B5.5 Passat with 312 rotors, and I loved them. I skimped out when I first did the upgrade and went with CARQUEST pads and absolutely hated them. Maybe that's why I liked the Redbox so much....

Pros: loved them

Cons: none

Vehicle: Volkswagen Passat

Mintex › Brake pads

Surf Green 7 Feb 2017, 19:19

Rating 5.0

Noise:
Dust:

Mintex Redbox are always on my list for Daily Driver pads on VWs. I just started into my 3rd set on my 180k wagon. In contrast, the Mintex are linear, fairly quiet, wear well, are easy on rotors, low dust and can tolerate a bit of spirited driving.

Pros: linear, fairly quiet, wear well

Cons: none

Vehicle: Volkswagen

Mileage: 180000 km

Mintex › Brake pads

s-rocc 3 Jun 2016, 02:58

Rating 4.0

Braking:
Dust:

Once the mintex pads had sufficiently cleaned the rotors, the pulsing was gone. Granted, they are much dustier, but I'll take that over the constant pulsing.

Pros: pulsing was gone

Cons: much dustier

Vehicle: Volkswagen Golf

Mintex › Brake pads

BsickPassat 20 Oct 2011, 12:45

Rating 3.5

Braking:
Dust:

Mintex is a step below the OEM Jurid/ATE/TRW pads in terms of friction coefficient. Mintex is an upgrade when it comes to dust. Right now, running Akebono Euro Ceramics... I won't come to my verdict until winter.

Pros: less dust

Cons: lower friction coefficient

Mintex › Brake pads

umphufu 8 Mar 2011, 13:40

Rating 3.0

Braking:

replaced calipers with OE ones again, uprated discs with mintex pads. worked hundreds for bout 500miles and now its playing up again like before.

Pros: worked for 500 miles

Cons: playing up again

Vehicle: Volkswagen

Mileage: 804 km

Mintex › Brake pads

nm+ 21 Mar 2007, 01:43

Rating 1.0

Braking:

You wanna avoid mintex red box these days. The passat pads have a slight problem with burning up under hard braking.

Cons: burning up under braking

Vehicle: Volkswagen Passat B5

Mintex › Brake pads

crrdslcvr6 9 Jun 2006, 02:40

Rating 1.0

Braking:

Not to sound mean, but Mintex redbox are terrible pads.

Cons: terrible pads

Vehicle: Volkswagen Corrado

Mintex › Brake pads

00Psst 30 Nov 2005, 18:51

Rating 1.0

Braking:

Mintex Red Box pads are crap - the company changed hands a few years ago and quality has sucked since with some folks experiencing large chunks of pad material just falling away.

Cons: crap, quality sucked