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Timspu

Timspu

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I am about to change out by discs and pads on the front axle and am enquiring what most of you are using. I currently have textar fitted but don't like the feel, they appear not to have much initial bite and then when you push harder the wheels tend to lock. Anyone had experience with EBC reds?
Any thoughts would be appreciated.

Thanks
Tim
 
Recently fitted Brembo discs and pads to my Cayenne and saved a fortune buying them from Euro Car Parts. (Had good experience with EBC green pads in the past).
 
Timspu said:
I am about to change out by discs and pads on the front axle and am enquiring what most of you are using. I currently have textar fitted but don't like the feel, they appear not to have much initial bite and then when you push harder the wheels tend to lock. Anyone had experience with EBC reds?
Any thoughts would be appreciated.

Thanks
Tim
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I had the opposite on a 944 once, no bite with EBC Green changed to the harder Red (which was a bit daft) but confirmed I needed softer, then fitted
softer Textar and had great bite...

Maybe your Tex's have glazed? If they have not been used for a while I find pads can harden and require much more abuse than normal driving
to get them hot and re kindled to work well again. Over Winter my car sat for only 3 months in a cold garage and on the first outing the Wilwood
pads were horrendously poor. It took approx. 30 minutes of progressively harder braking even from 100mph to get them rekindled, then they were great.

R
www.924srr27l.co.uk

 
thanks for the feedback, Not really what i was hoping to hear. My Textars have been in a while 10, 000 miles at least so about 3 years. I am just not too hot on the progressive braking with these pads, maybe its a case of new textars on new discs. Anyone used the Mintex pad 1144?
 
Yes 1144's are nice and soft for normal road use, 1155 are harder for harder use but won't work from cold as well
as the 1144's. Depends how hard you use it / brake ? I'm not harsh on brakes but on them early and with a softer pressure
hence I've always found these Sports pads too hard and I hate no having good initial bite...

Ferodo Ds2000 & Pagid also good makes, but I don;t think you'll go wrong with a Textar set discs & pads
I do think if your discs are past their best and your pads have only seen a few thousand or so a year they may of hardened..

R
 
Thanks for all the inputs. Have decided to try Brembo standard pads. Once installed I will offer some feedback comparing to the Textars
 
They are the same pad, rebadged Textars.

Actually it would seem Brembo pads are in fact Pagid pads, not Textar (although all TMD Friction)
 
Fitted Brembo pads to the front. So new disks and pads all round. Not much difference in feel. Brakes work well though. So not too much learnt here, textar and Brembo have same bite and feel.
 
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