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Brake pads Mintex or WILWOOD
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 Pads All Around
Vehicle:
Volkswagen Corrado
Stock pads have always been like that. My MKIV was like that as well especially in the rear. So I changed them with Mintex pads.
Vehicle:
Volkswagen Golf
For brakes I run Scirocco 10.1 fronts with Mintex red pads, MK3 200mm rear drums- i used to have to be careful when I ran 195/50/15's because of accidental lock, but it's much improved with the 205/50/15's (Toyo R1R's- best tire i've had).
Pros: much improved, best tire
Cons: accidental lock
Vehicle:
Volkswagen Scirocco
I upgraded the pads and rotors to drilled Zimmerman discs that I painted black except for swept area and Mintex pads from Autotech.
Pros: drilled Zimmerman discs
Vehicle:
Volkswagen
For future reference I use Mintex pad all round (occasionally Pagid) Cross reference Front Pads MDB 2601 Rears MDC 1924 Front 365mm Floating Discs VW PATTERN PART ONLY!
Pros: uses Mintex pads
Vehicle:
Volkswagen Phaeton
Part number: MDB 2601
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
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
I had a set of Mintex Red Boxes on my '98 GTI-VR6. Other than producing less dust (or a less-visible dust), I thought they were garbage. The stock pads stopped and felt better.
Pros: less dust
Cons: garbage, felt worse
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
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