Guys,

Just about to replace the front brakes on my daily runner (e39 528) next weekend and am a bit confused by pad choice.

I've just ordered a pair of standard pattern discs from gaybay, but not sure about pads. I've seen some good deals on Mintex pads but I've tried other ''fast road'' type pads before and not been impressed for everyday driving i.e. warm up time.

Also, I suspect these will not be kind to the discs

I'm not after anything special just a good pad that'll stop when I want to and wont chew up new discs, any ideas ???

CheeRS

Paul

ps German, Swedish and French, Europarts etc all seem to stock Textar pads anygood or just cheap crap ?

 

You wont go wrong with mintex 1144's as a road pad. they work from ocld and dont wear discs anymore so than a std pad.

 

Cheers Andy,

Don't think they are that model/ spec to be honest the ebay ad quotes a reference of MDB1817

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/BMW-5-SERIES-E...QQcmdZViewItem

Probably a cheaper version

 

there just std mintex pads, not a fast road pad i.e 1144.

 

yup as andy says...

Mintex are an Original Equipment Manfucaturer (OEM).



Bimmers are fussy about disks... they warp easily. BMW ones are about the best. They are more than flebay thou....

Alex

 

I found that 1144's made a mess of my wheels as apparently they have a lot of metal in them. I changed them to ferodo DS2500's and am more then happy with them

 

Yeah 1144's do create a little more dust, not sure what you mean metal in them tho

IMO The DS2500 take a little more heating up before they work really well, were as the 1144's worked fine from cold. The only problem i have found with 1144's is that on track use they got too hot and crack down the middle of the pad, but they were perfect for road use.