My new Brembo brakes...

[RobM]

Can I ask a stupid question... why are puddles a No No?

 

[tris]

Hot disc + cold water puddles = cracks

 

[Yumann]

yea sods law, tho i was only warned by bill after i had purchased these! (not that bill needs to warn me! lol )

i must admit i had heard that drilled discs can crack, but i prefer the looks of drilled discs to groved ones (good excuse lol), but it was such a good price for the discs AND PADS that i thought it was worth the risk (and still do!)

also in the back of my mind i cannot help but think well if drilled discs are THAT bad then manufactures would not use them as OEM equipment...

anyways i dont want to dwell on this as i dont have any choice but to make sure i bed them in 110% and see what happens! (if anything does happen il be contacting the seller!)

anyway like i said i dont want to dwell ppl, so lets see what happens, fingers crossed!

The do look so much better than groved. I bought them cause of that too and also i couldn't get hold of 2 peicers in time for my mot.

Edited: Do you have different p/n for left and right discs? Cause i only got on p/n therefore the holes are in the oposite direction on either side.

 

[J@mes]

The do look so much better than groved. I bought them cause of that too and also i couldn't get hold of 2 peicers in time for my mot.

Edited: Do you have different p/n for left and right discs? Cause i only got on p/n therefore the holes are in the oposite direction on either side.

i only looked at one disc part no!


as for the holes... the patterns on both sides (driver/passenger) match!...

passenger side...

drivers side...

 

[Yumann]

Hmmmm thats strange cause according to brembo's catalogue there is only one p/n for both side.

Are your drilled holes counter sunk?

 

[J@mes]

just went and had a look (with the use of the trusty camera thank god!)... both discs do have the same part number, but they are not counter sunk!

 

[Yumann]

There are two different disc for the groved gt setup

Groved: 19.8403.30/40

However for the drilled setup there is only one disc kind

Drilled: 19.8403.20

 

[J@mes]

i guess that is because you can fit drilled discs either way, where as with grooved discs it is better that the groves go one way so to speak!

 

[Yumann]

Thats very weird indeed.

Cause it caught my eye that your discs arn't gold zinc plate there more like oe discs with grey primer.

I also noticed in the pic they are not counter sunk drilled holes.

 

[J@mes]

i guess therefore they are drilled OEM discs then?!


anyways lol... no dwelling!

and fingers crossed!

 

[ibizacupra]

brembo are grey painted... as are OE.
Red Dot drill their own disks.

cheap kit tho

 

[karlosR]

my brembo discs were zinc plated and had the counter sunk holes too

 

[ibizacupra]

my brembo discs were zinc plated and had the counter sunk holes too

yep thats a real brembo drilled disk, not a brembo disk that been drilled.

subtle difference..
both will crak in heavy use mind you.

 

[J@mes]

anyways lol... no dwelling!

and fingers crossed!

^^^^^ especially as its my b day 2mo!

 

[jamie paton]

happy birthday jamesy.

 

[Tam]

man .. lots of use of the word "crack" in this thread

I have no idea why

 

[willbatch]

Now they would scare me lol!!

 

[RobM]

DITTO... that's some worrying looking cracks...

 

[willbatch]

Makes you wonder what car there on.

 

[karlosR]

i had some of those "rotordiscs" a while back on my old mondeo. they looked the badgers nadgers but cracked in about three months and that was only using soft EBC greenstuff pads . it failed the MOT because of it and i got a full refund from blueflame for the discs and the pads! it is scary how bad the cracks get.