Replaced my wishbones at the weekend, bloody nightmare in the cold , everything bft as it's all original.
But I noticed previously due to lack of rivets that the pads where not oe, which is most odd because I am quite happy with the brakes believe it or not

during the work I had a look and they pads had GM on the backing. They can't be trade club surely? Because they actually work.... :-/
They have stick on shims on one pad as tc do, the shims had moved and no longer lined up as TC pads do,to the point the shim looks like it's scored the hub section of the disc itself. They look like TC pads apart from they are two thirds worn so there is no sign of the massive chamfer tc pads have.
Could this be a clue that trade club pads are not what they once were? As has been mentioned before by others? Or do I have something other than oe or tc pads? How can I tell?
The numbers on the backing are visible but I didn't take a picture as the touch screen on my n900 refused to work in the sub zero temp, the ¥#%*~€g useless piece of s#!$e that it is!