need to do disc and pads on my friends porsche boxster. Had a quick look on the net at prices and obviously pattern parts are alot cheaper than genuine Porsche parts

is it really worth paying the extra for the Porsche parts or are the pattern stuff pretty good these days? - the pattern stuff seems to be almost half the price in comparison

the car is out of warrenty so no issues as far as that's concerned, just want people opinions

he hardly drives the thing and never drives it in anger

Cheers, Matt

 

I would only ever use Porsche discs, as the holes are CAST into the discs and not drilled, so last MUCH longer than drilled aftermarket discs. Pads I can do and even list the 204bhp model on my website .

Why does it need discs if it has not been used in anger? .

 

OE porchse pads are textar and can be got from most places (ebay/euro car parts etc) cheep enough so dont play dealer prices for them

 

i shall look on your website then

to be fair havent checked it myself, i suspect it will only need pads, but worst case it may need discs

its only done 40k so cant see how the discs can be worn that much

 

cheers

 

They corrode mike.

I'd get all the parts from Jasmine. VERY good and very cheap. GENUINE Porsche parts only.

 

hi Porkie, whos Jasmine? is it a company i can order from?

cheers
Matt

 

I got Brembo discs (OE quality) for my 911 from GSF for Ł35 each .

 

Hi mate

I agree with Mike - the point made about the holes is really important - the only thing I would say is that Alcons have a good rep but they are for performance, and are quite expensive for discs I believe.

So far I have only ever used OEM, but not needed to change for a while.

Whilst it is true that Textar make the oem pads, I am not sure that it follows that the compound is identical for teh pattern parts - I may be wrong, but when I used pattern on my M5 I noted that they lasted nothing like as long as the OEM BMW items (also made by textar). So dont take it as read that the same make means same compound.

I would say again - I could be wrong!

JJ

 

I suspect they've already been done looking at the date of the original post

 

i work for euro car parts mate and we sell shit loads of boxter discs and pads and are all genuine parts

 

yeah done em long ago, thankfully it only needed pads, so i just bought the pads from camberley auto factors

 

Thanks JJ, i done the pads ages ago and it did only needs pads thankfully

he drives like a girl and does about 6k a year so its not a biggie

cheers for the advise tho

 

Oooops - just noted the date of the first post!

Cool ! Glad you sorted it tho!

JJ