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Hi all!

I`ve booked my car in V.A.G. garage to have new brake pads and discs fitted. The discs will be oem and the pads EBC green stuff.
I´ve just received the pads and just by looking at them the front ones look a bit different to ones currently fitted (compared with just the part of the pads I can see while in situ).

Just wondering if someone can confirm if EBC part n:o´s DP 21328 (front) and DP 2370 (rear) will fit ok. (Mine is ´99 pre-facelift model)

TIA [img]images/graemlins/boots.gif[/img]

Mika

Try looking at pages 16/17 of the EBC brake catalogue [img]images/graemlins/thumbs.gif[/img]

Cheers biturbo!!

A great link!!!
Now I`m pretty sure that I´ve got the wrong ones [img]images/graemlins/frown.gif[/img]


Mika

Before you go and get the correct Greenstuff pads, I recommend you go for the Redstuff.
Greenstuff did untold damage to my old disks, and also (was it DavidR) in Scotland.
Redstuff so far have held up really well [img]images/graemlins/laugh.gif[/img]

Greenstuff did untold damage to my old disks, and also (was it DavidR) in Scotland.

Well, thats not stictly true, my left hub is warped, so intstalling new discs and pads created more warpage due to their being mounted on an unsteady base [img]images/graemlins/smile.gif[/img] now that the discs have been machined and the hub problem corrected, the green stuff and OEM discs work excellently with virtually no fade, scoring or other such damage to the discs. They are most likely to reduce the life of the OEM disc (but then it is providing a lot more stopping power) but as the red stuff are more agressive again, the same if not worse could be expected there.

I would be reluctant to fit the red stuff given that the ambient temperature in winter is very low and they take time to warm up, i guess I'm worrying about an emergency braking situation on a cold, wet motorway. Also, it is clear that an OEM rotor does not disperse heat quickly enough with the green stuff and this boils caliper fluid and creates vibration during extreme braking. Again, the red stuff can tolerate (and therefore create) more heat, which the OEM disc cannot clear. I think to use red stuff you should at least groove the discs to allow more of the heat and gasses away before you really bend the discs.

Cheers

Dave