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Brake pads DBA or Mintex
After 70K miles of fun driving, I finally replaced my front brake rotors and pads...3mm left on the pads LOL. I got Zimmermann Rotors($180) and Mintex pads($45) and couldn't be happier. In fact, this set-up feels a lot better than the OEM bite and feel plus the massive reduction in brake dust.
Pros: better than OEM, less dust
Vehicle:
Volkswagen Golf
Mileage: 70000 km
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
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
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 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
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
mine tended to do that after i put in the mintex pads. i figure its just the metal content of the pad.
Pros: metal content of pad
I have some noise from the mintex pads as well. Im switching them all out soon.
Pros: none
Cons: noise from pads
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
Not to sound mean, but Mintex redbox are terrible pads.
Cons: terrible pads
Vehicle:
Volkswagen Corrado
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