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Brake pads Centric or Mintex
In short: support your local motor factors, and buy Mintex brakes and pads. I've a 107 and the Mintex pads/brakes have been brilliant.
Pros: brilliant brakes, excellent pads
I’m a big fan of Centric rotors and pads. To me they’re in the category of OEM+ and they’re still affordable.
Pros: affordable, OEM+
I buy a lot of denso parts, gates or continental generally for belts and such. Centric for brakes.
Pros: best one you can get
IMO do not put anything OEM on the car as a replacement. Find something with a better pad/rotor combo that doesn't leave deposits Ilike Centric stuff a lot with the Ceramic pads. Good combo
Pros: Good combo
Cons: rotors at 30k miles
Vehicle:
Volkswagen Tiguan
Mileage: 30000 km
Centric ceramic brake pads
Vehicle:
Volkswagen
I switched to Centric PosiQuiet Ceramic Pads and not only they brake better, but produces little to no dust.
Pros: better braking, low dust
As stated, installed new Mintex front pads and I believe I installed correctly. rattle only occurs when not braking, when brakes applied immediately disappears.
Pros: brakes applied, rattle disappears
Cons: rattle when not braking
I have just put posi-quiets on my PP GTI and I'm experiencing vibration while driving at highway speed (68-80 mph, worst at 75ish). Re-checked torques and the faces of hubs/wheels were clean. Will go in for a balance but is it possible I got a **** rotor or something? Possible I have a bent hub and didn't realize it until the rotors were swapped?
Cons: vibration at highway speed
Vehicle:
Volkswagen
mintex reds are WORSE than stock in my opinion....i bought some, and got ride of em a few months later
Cons: worse than stock
Driving home today, and I had to brake HARD to avoid a collision, the fade was awful - the pedal went straight to the floor - no ABS activation, NOTHING... Got home and the fronts are SMOKING, and the rears are completely toast - I mean GONE - there is almost NO friction material left, and a PILE of it on my wheels... These had seen NO track usage, and NO abuse in the last thousand miles... thanks a lot MINTEX - you've made an angry customer for life...
Cons: awful fade, pedal to floor
Mileage: 1000 km
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