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Omega Help Area => Omega General Help => Topic started by: Drewomega on 20 April 2010, 11:29:23

Title: Front Brake Discs!
Post by: Drewomega on 20 April 2010, 11:29:23
Hi! does anybody on here know where I can get proper front wheel discs at a proper price? Thanks.
Title: Re: Front Brake Discs!
Post by: Andy B on 20 April 2010, 11:30:19
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Hi! does anybody on here know where I can get proper front wheel discs at a proper price? Thanks.

Vauxhall  :y They're around about £100 including pads  :y Trade Club prices  ;)
Title: Re: Front Brake Discs!
Post by: Seth on 20 April 2010, 11:37:04
Got a kit of discs/pads from Vx last week - 95 quid all in.
I asked for 'trade rate' and they gave in, no bother.
Who dares wins etc! :y
Title: Re: Front Brake Discs!
Post by: 2woody on 20 April 2010, 11:50:23
Euro Car Parts.

go for the ATE brand, not the cheapies.

any pads are as good as any others. (harder pads excepted, but you shouldn't be fitting these to a road car anyway)
Title: Re: Front Brake Discs!
Post by: Drewomega on 20 April 2010, 12:12:42
Are the Mintex discs/pads any good?
Title: Re: Front Brake Discs!
Post by: 2woody on 20 April 2010, 16:25:40
Mintex do a couple of things....

Standard discs. Good, but not up to the OE quality of ATE
Standard pads. As good as any other

in general....

"Improved" discs. Not worth any extra money - they'll have either grooves or cross-drilling holes, both of which only have the purpose of expelling gas and dust on endurance-racing cars. Use of these on a road-car is a fashion statement - nothing else.

"Improved" pads, trade greater hot performance for worse cold performance. Work better when used frequently (every 30 seconds). Don't work so good when used infrequently (normal driving)
Title: Re: Front Brake Discs!
Post by: TheBoy on 20 April 2010, 18:26:16
Genuine - £80.15 + VAT (and an extra 10% off currently).

I had so much trouble with pattern discs/pads on my MV6 that I only use genuine brake parts now, and have no real further problems apart from glazing the pads and occasionally getting spongy pedal if in a desperate hurry.

Title: Re: Front Brake Discs!
Post by: 2woody on 21 April 2010, 09:02:34
ATE are now of much better quality than OE.

For a period of time, you could get OE - OE discs which were the pukka ones fitted to new cars ( and these were ATE ) and you could alse got OE - trade club discs which were not of the same quality. Only the Trade-club ones are serviced now.
Title: Re: Front Brake Discs!
Post by: Andy H on 21 April 2010, 09:19:05
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ATE are now of much better quality than OE.

For a period of time, you could get OE - OE discs which were the pukka ones fitted to new cars ( and these were ATE ) and you could alse got OE - trade club discs which were not of the same quality. Only the Trade-club ones are serviced now.
Who gave you that misinformation?

They were still listing both when I bought my OE rear discs pads and shoes a few weeks ago. :y
Title: Re: Front Brake Discs!
Post by: 2woody on 21 April 2010, 09:30:16
local main dealer - so not surprised it's wrong then.

any ideaof the price difference between OE spec and OE trade club soec ?
Title: Re: Front Brake Discs!
Post by: Kevin Wood on 21 April 2010, 10:50:27
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local main dealer - so not surprised it's wrong then.

any ideaof the price difference between OE spec and OE trade club soec ?

I know Chrisgixer fitted the OE spec pads after being disappointed with the TC pads. They were 70 quid odd for the front axle set of pads alone IIRC. :o

Better, apparently, but at a price.

Kevin
Title: Re: Front Brake Discs!
Post by: Drewomega on 22 April 2010, 10:14:04
Thanks guys! All replies greatly appreciated.  :y
Title: Re: Front Brake Discs!
Post by: djac on 22 April 2010, 12:06:24
Just looked on the Euro Car Parts website, they only list Pagid (out of stock) or Eicher discs for my car. Is ATE the same as Eicher?
Title: Re: Front Brake Discs!
Post by: Mr Skrunts on 22 April 2010, 14:00:01
Over the years I have replaced the disks (different brands) on most cars with parts from motor factors, genuine have allways been the best for a reason.


On my GLS I fitted Apec Disks and pads a couple of years and must admit to find them to be as good as the genuine ones.  priced some up today and got a right shock, the prices have shot up for them.

Paid £43 for the disks and £17 for the pads last time.

pads            £30.57
disks        £71.53
Title: Re: Front Brake Discs!
Post by: 2woody on 22 April 2010, 16:14:36
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Just looked on the Euro Car Parts website, they only list Pagid (out of stock) or Eicher discs for my car. Is ATE the same as Eicher?

no - ring them up and ask specifically.
Title: Re: Front Brake Discs!
Post by: Onkel Per on 09 May 2010, 20:46:42
I fitted Brembo MAX (grooved) front discs on my Cavalier III / Vectra A. And they do works better than standard.
 :'( But Brembo dos'nt make MAX discs for Omega, only OE discs.


Well, now i't time, and I'm also looking for new discs (and pads) for my Omega. So I hope it's ok to add an extra question to this thread.

Surfing the internet I found a few different discs.

ATE (OE)
Brembo (OE)
Diamond (grooved / drilled / both)
EBC (grooved / drilled / both)

And some special offers on e-bay like
Y.C.P-BRAKING (grooved / drilled / both)
MTEC (grooved / drilled / both)
MINTBITZ (grooved / drilled / both)

But who has tried what, and what do you think the quality has been?



PS. I hope my English is understandable. I think it might be better than your Danish  ;)
Title: Re: Front Brake Discs!
Post by: Andy B on 09 May 2010, 21:01:43
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PS. I hope my English is understandable. I think it might be better than your Danish  ;)

Your English is perfectly understandable :y  :y.
Title: Re: Front Brake Discs!
Post by: feeutfo on 09 May 2010, 22:38:12
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local main dealer - so not surprised it's wrong then.

any ideaof the price difference between OE spec and OE trade club soec ?

I know Chrisgixer fitted the OE spec pads after being disappointed with the TC pads. They were 70 quid odd for the front axle set of pads alone IIRC. :o

Better, apparently, but at a price.

Kevin
i find oe better, stamp on the pedal and there's not much differance, but they fill in the terribly sorry old boy, I am a little tireding gap in feel given by the trade club pads which feel like lumps of wood in comparison, i believe VXL V6 found the same.

They still fade when pushed, i might fit some goodridge braded hoses to replace the rubber flexipipe.

Are oe worth £70 a ront axle set though? bit steep tbh, but i wont go back to trade club pads personally, dont rate the performance, but then they are suitably priced.
Title: Re: Front Brake Discs!
Post by: VXL V6 on 09 May 2010, 22:58:13
Yep, the pedal 'feel' is definately better with the OE pads, but before I get shot down in flames, I do know that 'feel' isn't the same as efficency and performance.