E30 Zone

I need new brake pads so what do you guys recommend? There is so many brands available.

The car is not a track car either..

Mike

got Pagid disks and pads all round on mine - seem OK and not massively expensive

OEM ATE pads (and discs) from Euro Car Parts.

ive got brembo discs with textar pads on my m52 e30 - works very well in all honesty.

textar pads here too, given the thermonuclear heat they put up with on my rear discs the other night (discs were glowing cherry red in the dark) and they still seem fine, I'm happy with them.

ive just recently fitted front pagid disks and pads myself and cant fault them

No-one recommending EBC?

baur320 wrote:No-one recommending EBC?

EBC green stuff are shite got them on the compact and some times you sit there with your foot hard on the brake wondering if your ever going to stop!.

Ive got zimmermann discs from gsf with texstar pad and i find that a very good combination

I like EBC greenstuff,bit expensive at best part of £50 for the last set,but they do wear well.

Put a set into the touring,along with a new pair of front discs and re-con calipers and the thing stops when I push the middle pedal and the front wheels can still be cleaned of brake dust,what more do you need?

daimlerman wrote:£50

My discs and pads dont cost me that much!

the only thing i noticed with greenstuff was slightly less dust than the oem of my other car but they were over double the price of dealer pads. i wouldnt buy again. ferodos seem to get good writeups!

also dont buy slotted disks, all they do is make an annoying noise when braking hard. only worth it if you experience fade often.

town325i wrote:

daimlerman wrote:£50

My discs and pads dont cost me that much!

But how long do they last?

Partworns FTW !

I've got ferodos. Does the job.

green stuff for no brake dust or very little

grooved discs help them on.

dont get pagid, absolutely crap, gave my car some stick for 5 miles and couldnt stop for a main juntion... fuuun.. got green stuff now and there alot better. i was going to get them from the stealers and they wanted 70 quid just for the front, must be gold plated or summin

sounds like your brake fluid was boiling! Had that on a 190 cossie once. Shot straight out into the junction!

Bought some textars a few years ago from ECP and they actually had a BMW stamp on them.
Ferodo have always done me proud, or mintex.. Most of the brand name products are good for road use. Its just as important to make sure the discs are in good order too.

Red Stuffs and plain vented discs work very well on mine...

never had a problem with pagid myself, work well from cold.

would have gone OEM ATE, but don't think ecp do ATE much these days? Well they didn't do them when i wanted them.

daimlerman wrote:

town325i wrote:

daimlerman wrote:£50

My discs and pads dont cost me that much!

But how long do they last?

Well ive done 10k in my touring and they are still going strong

octanejunkie wrote: Bought some textars a few years ago from ECP and they actually had a BMW stamp on them.
Ferodo have always done me proud, or mintex.. Most of the brand name products are good for road use. Its just as important to make sure the discs are in good order too.

Mitex are owned by textar and mintex are textars budget brand found this out from one of my mates that work for GSF

town325i wrote:

daimlerman wrote:

town325i wrote:My discs and pads dont cost me that much!

But how long do they last?

Well ive done 10k in my touring and they are still going strong

I bought some of these just to get my car through the MOT with the full intention of junking them for something decent if the car was OK, but a year later and apart from being a bit squeally when warm have had no problems at all.

I think they fall into the category "Ultra-cheap"

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/BMW-3-E30-2-DISQU ... i%C3%A8ces

Pagid are crap you can see the dust stuck on the back where they painted it

Might I just add that for standard oem road pads (i.e. none of the fast road/racing compounds) then they are all the same if they are Pagid, Mintex etc as they are all made by TMD friction. I have known people who worked in their place at Hartlepool and they said that the OEM pads were all the same friction compound mounted on the differently painted backing plates.

www.tmdfriction.com