BRAKE SQUEAL....

[Kevin Wood]

Thats the dealers talking BS again.  I'm not convinced that the higher performance pads are that important on the back of these...

Agreed. I'm not convinced there's much braking at the back anyway (the normal way with a production car, as the average driver doesn't deal well with the back of the car trying to outbreak the front).

I can take my car out for a good spanking and, whilst the front disks will end up smoking, the rears rarely get too hot to touch.

Speaking of smoking, I wonder what GM were smoking when they decided an Omega needs vented disks at the rear?

Kevin

[Andy B]

...some may recall york meet last year where had issues with the rear brakes and discs etc,  .......  

Did you ever solve the case of the missing vented discs at the back? ....... you had the older solid discs in a the time, hence the piston escaping from its bore  :-?   

[feeutfo]

i have the oe pads all round, as Mick has on the back now, and find them far better than the usual trade club pads you may have been expecting.

I would recomend fitting oe on the front as well if you can get over the price,£70 on tc, they are £100 retail according to the parts man.

It was fitting oe to the rear that persuaded me to fit oe all round.

[Darth Loo-knee]

i have the oe pads all round, as Mick has on the back now, and find them far better than the usual trade club pads you may have been expecting.

I would recomend fitting oe on the front as well if you can get over the price,£70 on tc, they are £100 retail according to the parts man.

It was fitting oe to the rear that persuaded me to fit oe all round.

They also fit far better than the Ferodo Baggins ones we took off

[feeutfo]

i have the oe pads all round, as Mick has on the back now, and find them far better than the usual trade club pads you may have been expecting.

I would recomend fitting oe on the front as well if you can get over the price,£70 on tc, they are £100 retail according to the parts man.

It was fitting oe to the rear that persuaded me to fit oe all round.

They also fit far better than the Ferodo Baggins ones we took off

ferodo pads do not have a good reputation in the bike world, but i dont think they do minimoto brakes for hobbits anyway.


by the way, Vxl v6 has the same pads, i believe he said he would not go back to trade club pads now, also recomended by omegatoy.

[VXL V6]

Indeed I have on both the front and rear (on the Elite at least) and it's well worth the extra cost. 

The only problem I seem to have is sourcing the rear pads now (will be putting them on the estate when they are next due) so if anyone finds a dealer with some then please let me know as my local dealer has been trying to source them for a few months now and has them back ordered from GM in Germany!

On my previous Elite I fitted TC pads on the rear and they produced nearly as much dust as the fronts!

[feeutfo]

Thats the dealers talking BS again.  I'm not convinced that the higher performance pads are that important on the back of these...

Agreed. I'm not convinced there's much braking at the back anyway (the normal way with a production car, as the average driver doesn't deal well with the back of the car trying to outbreak the front).

I can take my car out for a good spanking and, whilst the front disks will end up smoking, the rears rarely get too hot to touch.

Speaking of smoking, I wonder what GM were smoking when they decided an Omega needs vented disks at the rear?

Kevin

how best to describe it...?  press the pedal with trade club pads and nout much happens until a fair bit of pressure is applied at the pedal, with oe fitted on the rear there was a noticeable slowing with no front end dip with far less pedal pressure, however to stop properly you had to apply the usual trade club level of pedal prressure.

Then with oe fitted on the front a similar iprovement was felt. Personaly i wonder if there may now be a brake imbalance towards the rear that may bring the back round if breaking hard while turning in? depends how hard Mick drives it i guess?

[MikeDundee]

have you still got ebc discs all round Mick? Personaly wonder how oe pads will work with those discs all round, might be a good combination?

EBC discs on front only, they are due to be changed but may just do the pads.

[MikeDundee]

Thats the dealers talking BS again.  I'm not convinced that the higher performance pads are that important on the back of these...

Agreed. I'm not convinced there's much braking at the back anyway (the normal way with a production car, as the average driver doesn't deal well with the back of the car trying to outbreak the front).

I can take my car out for a good spanking and, whilst the front disks will end up smoking, the rears rarely get too hot to touch.

Speaking of smoking, I wonder what GM were smoking when they decided an Omega needs vented disks at the rear?

Kevin

how best to describe it...?  press the pedal with trade club pads and nout much happens until a fair bit of pressure is applied at the pedal, with oe fitted on the rear there was a noticeable slowing with no front end dip with far less pedal pressure, however to stop properly you had to apply the usual trade club level of pedal prressure.

Then with oe fitted on the front a similar iprovement was felt. Personaly i wonder if there may now be a brake imbalance towards the rear that may bring the back round if breaking hard while turning in? depends how hard Mick drives it i guess?

The main squeal would happen sometimes when braking at junctions, but always when reverse parking, which was a bummer cos the missus always knew when I was home, but she does'nt now, so can sneak off to the pub for a swifty  

[MikeDundee]

...some may recall york meet last year where had issues with the rear brakes and discs etc,  .......  

Did you ever solve the case of the missing vented discs at the back? ....... you had the older solid discs in a the time, hence the piston escaping from its bore  :-?   

Vented discs were fitted after the york meet last year

[Andy B]

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Vented discs were fitted after the york meet last year