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Brake pads options for 370mm Brembo 4 pots
- Thread starter Slickric21
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Has anyone tried these Stoptech
www.brakes-shop.com
308.16000 - Street Performance Brake Pads £50 a set seems almost too cheap
308.16000 - Street Performance Brake Pads
Lab-Tested; OE-Style Design and Features. Rotor-Friendly; Low-Dust for Cleaner Wheels. Dyno-Proven Shims for Quiet Operation. Positive Molded for Consistent Performance. Scorched to Ease Bed-In. Premium Hardware for Precision OE Fitment.
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Just to update this, I couldn't find anyone that could skim 370mm discs on the car. And when the car went into SEAT for a service, the tech agreed that the pad locating pins were marking the discs. He contacted SEAT technical for advice, and was told this is normal. Sounds like BS to avoid having to replace the pads and discs under the warranty.
See my previous comment on these pins:
Brake pads options for 370mm Brembo 4 pots
I wouldn’t the Zimmerman are ‘better’. They are a better value, half the price of OEM, weigh virtually the same, and have an anti rust coating on parts OEM doesn’t have.
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Are you actually having brake problems? How much wear do you have on your pads/discs?
The sub8 brembo brake option is an awesome brake - which wouldn't look out of place on a supercar from 10 years ago - but unfortunately that doesn't come cheap!
Its common for modern cars to need new pads and discs at the same time - gone are the days of getting 2 and 3 pad sets to 1 disc!
No problems at the moment, but the car has done 20k road miles now, and I'm looking to the future. A light skim on the discs could have extended their life, while staying within the wear limit. I wouldn't baulk at spending £4-500 on decent discs and pads, but I think the original SEAT parts cost a lot more?See my previous comment on these pins:
Brake pads options for 370mm Brembo 4 pots
I wouldn’t the Zimmerman are ‘better’. They are a better value, half the price of OEM, weigh virtually the same, and have an anti rust coating on parts OEM doesn’t have.
Are you actually having brake problems? How much wear do you have on your pads/discs?
The sub8 brembo brake option is an awesome brake - which wouldn't look out of place on a supercar from 10 years ago - but unfortunately that doesn't come cheap!
Its common for modern cars to need new pads and discs at the same time - gone are the days of getting 2 and 3 pad sets to 1 disc!
I wouldn't worry about skimming - just use the discs until their wear limit is reached.
Cheapest genuine discs 8J0615301K I can see is around £560 for a pair.
Those on ebay for £389 look terrible.
Sure they should bolt on and be fine for putting around town but I would not want to heat cycle them! - the casting quality, not to mention the design looks bad. They are one-piece cast iron, trying to replicate the steel pins/alloy tophat/composite design of the OEM.
That is a very small section of cast iron to be in shear!
No, any holes are drilled.
Punched is just a 'lost in translation' phrase some catalogues use.
Holes in the friction surface are really only for aesthetics and drastically reduce disc thermal fatigue.
Yes I am oversimplifying it.
There is no doubt some improvement is to be had from a non uniform brake disc surface be it dimples holes grooves etc. along with the downsides such changes bring.
Whether a road car will see that improvement is the point I suppose and whether there are more effective mods.
There is no doubt some improvement is to be had from a non uniform brake disc surface be it dimples holes grooves etc. along with the downsides such changes bring.
Whether a road car will see that improvement is the point I suppose and whether there are more effective mods.
From Brembo and their "5 reasons for purchasing drilled discs" - their ONLY actual data (meaning the other 4 points are just marketing BS) is regarding gas dispersion (pad off-gassing) and for reducing brake fade.
There are so many important nuances to this - mainly in the pad friction material temperature stability - but you can see in 'their' data the only variance between drilled and plain discs occurs above 750deg C (dotted line)! You will never ever see these temps on the road, and even then, the difference in Mu (friction coefficient) will be gradual and still less than the fade around stop 6!
A different pad friction material will have drastically more influence on high temp fade than any disc holes.
@ Slickric21
Could you please provide your advice and experience so far on the Zimmermann 370 mm front disks you installed in your car? I think I have had enough with the Brembo system's SHW front disks on my VZ3 Formentor.
Also, if you could please advise your thoughts on the following brake pads for the Zimmermann 370mm front disks:
ATE part number 13.0460-4833.2
Zimmermann part number 24098.970.1 (low dust) or 24098.170.1 (normal pads)
EBC Bluestuff DP52070NDX or EBC Yellowstuff DP42070R (EBC's website shows me these 2 pads options for my car https://ebcbrakesdirect.com/automotive/cupra/formentor/70208 )
Thanks
Could you please provide your advice and experience so far on the Zimmermann 370 mm front disks you installed in your car? I think I have had enough with the Brembo system's SHW front disks on my VZ3 Formentor.
Also, if you could please advise your thoughts on the following brake pads for the Zimmermann 370mm front disks:
ATE part number 13.0460-4833.2
Zimmermann part number 24098.970.1 (low dust) or 24098.170.1 (normal pads)
EBC Bluestuff DP52070NDX or EBC Yellowstuff DP42070R (EBC's website shows me these 2 pads options for my car https://ebcbrakesdirect.com/automotive/cupra/formentor/70208 )
Thanks
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