Brake Pads

My Brake Pads Needs Replacing On My SX S13. Does any durban users know of a good place in durban where i can take my car to go and fit new brake pads?

Well its relatively easy fitting them your self. Not sure where you can fit them in Durban though, look in the yellowpages.co.za for a brake/clutch place in DBN.

Depenging on the use of your car the type of pad you fit is quite important
* ATE's: Cool if your hardly ever speed and your a grandma driver, excessive fade when hot.
* Ferodo's Normal: Good they also fade quickly though.
* Ferodo's Cermaics: My choice but very hard on rotors, can even handle some track abuse.
* EBC Green Stuff: Very good, just overpriced (Never tried)
* HAWK's HPS: One of the best street/semi-track pad out there, recommended by big manufactures like DBA Australia, Powerbrake SA
* Project MU: Good but very soft bite action (Never tried)
* Bosh: I don't like'mmm by budy swears by them after they didn't fade while doing 7 or so laps around Zwartkop.

Then there is hundreds of no name brands out there... I'd stay away, to give you an idea, I killed a set of No-Name pads in a week with my Polo, those thingd fade so bad that when I got to my driveway in the evenings my disks where glowing and I had zero brakes, that obviously killed the rotors, changed rotors fitted some Ferordo Ceramics... It's been 4 months they still holding out.

I really hope you mean Ferodo Platinums as in my experience the ceramics are real crap that will destroy your discs.

excessive fade when hot.

ATE's - this is the thruth. I run through red robots with my ATE's. Just not stopping.

The Calibrator wrote:

I really hope you mean Ferodo Platinums as in my experience the ceramics are real crap that will destroy your discs.

Thats the stuff actually yeah 😳 Mixed up my names

I run through red robots with my ATE's. Just not stopping.

Yeah experience that aswell, combined with very smooth tyres not cool

when i had ATE's my worst experience was the constant squealing of the brakes. they would squeal loudly when not in use, and gently when the peddle was pushed.

i could change the tone of the squeal with the force that i pushed the brake pedal down, and this happened on 4 different vehicles.

i gave those pads 4 chances on 4 different vehicles, and on the last one i vowed never to use them again!!!

lately i installed ferodo platinum on my sx, and ferodo premium(?)on my xtrail, and i am very impressed. no noise at all, and excellent road use stopping power.

haven't track tested though!

lately i installed ferodo platinum on my sx,

Where do we source that and do you have a part number perhaps? 🙄

I still have ATE's on my SX now... Was looking for a quick replacement since I knew I was going to fit the Z32 brakes in 2 or 3 weeks... But ended up not been able to fit them 😕

Vlade wrote:

I still have ATE's on my SX now... Was looking for a quick replacement since I knew I was going to fit the Z32 brakes in 2 or 3 weeks... But ended up not been able to fit them 😕

sorry for the hijack!!!

is that the rear brakes from z32?

what are your issues there, cos i will face them too soon!!! i've got the calipers, and the fronts are just a question of money for discs and pads, but for the rears i will need bigger discs, but i want to retain my handbrake mechanism!

check out these pics:

That's them!

Where your sourcing rotors from VC?

slow down...

no money for mods for a while, if i get rotors, i will let you know!