Looking to upgrade the front brakes, and whilst researching mintex pads I've found various kits supplied with drilled and grooved discs by Panther Platinum. Has anyone used them before and care to comment on their performance?

If not, what drilled and grooved kits are people using? I've done some reading on here and some people recommend Tarox, but from I've seen they maybe a little out of budget.

Thanks.

There is a problem with Drilled discs. They are quite prone to crackig around the holes, also lots of grooves may make them noisy under medium to hard braking.

Dimpled with a few grooves are the way to go. These have the advantages of drilled but no cracks. These are made by firms such as EBC (Turbo Grooved Discs) or Zerosixty sold by Awesome GTI. These may still give some noise when braking, but not as much as heavily grooved discs. I have EBC's slotted discs on mine, and are silent under braking.

Yeah I've had the zerosixty discs from awesome, great quality for the money

Yeh I've heard the stories about drilled discs. Never been a problem with my previous cars, different story for track cars I'm sure.

EBC turbos are a little out of budget.

There's also MTEC on eBay which I'm looking at also

Internet doesn't seem to be my friend at the minute, how much for a set of zerosixtys?

Hmmmm seems Awesomes website is down.... Bad times

Just found some for £122 inc VAT mate

My mate has drilled grooves on his m3 as standard and so does a bloke who I work near on his merc AMG.

So never understood why people worry about buying them for their cars??

Got some on mine also and are fine.

My mate has drilled grooves on his m3 as standard and so does a bloke who I work near on his merc AMG.

So never understood why people worry about buying them for their cars??

Got some on mine also and are fine.

I think the issue lies with cheap discs copying the look of expensive discs, but not backing the quality of materials used to make them.