Re: Best All Around Brake Pads?

["Ewan Hopkins" <ewanhopkins@hotmail.com>]

The Pagid pads I used were just standard. AFAIK they were OEM parts at one 
time - not sure what VW use these days. They are better than 'cheap' pads 
but I don't know how they compare with 'performance' pads - probably depends 
a lot on the application.  They cost somewhere in the region of $30 a set 
when I bought them.
Your wobble/surge could be that one of your disks is not sitting on the hub 
properly. If, for instance, you have drilled out the disk retaining screw 
but not drilled out or flattened the remaining stump and you don't key the 
retainer hole in the disk on the stump, your disk will not be flat against 
the hub and will cause vibration.  If by low speeds you mean between 50 and 
70mph, then it sounds like front wheel balance. I take it you've checked 
that your shocks haven't leaked.

HTH,

Ewan Hopkins


>From: "Robert" <Tpiwonka@austin.rr.com>
>To: "Ewan Hopkins" <ewanhopkins@hotmail.com>,   "scirocco list" 
><scirocco-l@scirocco.org>
>Subject: Re: Best All Around Brake Pads?
>Date: Mon, 19 Mar 2001 14:42:14 -0800
>
>I just went with mintex pads and ate power disks.  Over stock they do have
>better bite but they still fade after two 80 to 40 stops fairly quickly.
>
>Question:
>1.
>     I had just purchased my car and was doing the brakes.  The pads that
>were on the car were pagids.  Are these a high performance pad, better than
>mintex or not?
>
>2.
>     At low speeds my car wobbles like I am running over large rocks, but 
>at
>high speeds the car does not do this.  could this be because the tires are
>not balanced?
>Also when stopping the car surges at low speeds.  I just replaced the front
>rotors and it is still there.  The actual brake pedal does not have surges
>just the car.  Are the rotors on the back warped or what?
>
>Thanks for any help
>Robert
>
>----- Original Message -----
>From: Ewan Hopkins <ewanhopkins@hotmail.com>
>To: <guido_david@hotmail.com>; <scirocco-l@scirocco.org>
>Sent: Monday, March 19, 2001 7:04 AM
>Subject: Re: Best All Around Brake Pads?
>
>
> > Pagids certainly work well with Black Diamonds - they have good initial
> > 'bite' compared with stock. I've just replaced mine with ATE power disks 
>/
> > Jurid pads and although they don't perform quite as well as the black
> > diamond/pagids did when new they are still pretty good and the disks are
>one
> > third of the price of the black diamonds. Unfortunately, I'm not sure 
>what
> > made the biggest difference, the pads or the disks.
> >
> > Ewan Hopkins.
> >
> > >From: "David Guido" <guido_david@hotmail.com>
> > >To: scirocco-l@scirocco.org
> > >Subject: Best All Around Brake Pads?
> > >Date: Wed, 07 Mar 2001 09:05:26 -0800
> > >
> >
> > 
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