What discs should I be getting and what pads and how much and where from? KwikFit just told me the discs and pads will need doing soon so want to get some ideas on what to order. They said they could do them for around

KwikFit just told me the discs and pads will need doing soon so want to get some ideas on what to order.

First thing I'd do would be to actually inspect the discs and pads, it's not unknown for places like KwikFit to be, er, "generous" in their assessment of what work needs doing.

You want standard or uprated?

Standard; try German, Swedish and French or Euro Car parts

Uprated; Black Diamond discs and Ferodo DS2500 pads.

standard discs and uprated pads

eurocarparts and their ATE powerdisks with pagid fast road pads. will cost about same as OEM but you'll get grooved disks and better braking...

im might need some needs discs and pads to. awful awful grinding noise when braking

First thing I'd do would be to actually inspect the discs and pads, it's not unknown for places like KwikFit to be, er, "generous" in their assessment of what work needs doing.

Well my local Skoda dealership has quoted me

£199 for parts?! Try looking at somewhere like EuroCarParts, I reckon you could get about £70 off that value by supplying your own...

It's about 1 - 1.5 hours work, so the labour amount sounds about right for a dealer, though naturally you could reduce this also by taking it to somewhere with a lower labour rate.

Like I say though, are your discs actually worn? Would check this first rather than relying on Kwik-Fit's diagnosis...

No idea how easy it is to do yourself, shouldn't imagine it's that difficult though!

Rob.

Cheers for the info, will get the discs checked by my motorbike garage as they do cars as well and I trust them to tell me whats what, was just passing KwikFit and decided to check with them as my pads warning light is on but turns out thats due to a broken warning sensor cable which they showed me.

I was quoted £40 for disks and £25 for pads from local auto shop... its an easy enough job to fit... caliper has 2 hex bolts... disk one grub screw.. you could have it done within an hour

was just passing KwikFit and decided to check with them as my pads warning light is on but turns out thats due to a broken warning sensor cable which they showed me.

...so you might not even need new pads then either?

Visual inspection of the brakes is pretty easy to do with alloy wheels, just peer at the disc through the spokes and see how far it's worn down (compare thickness of the "smooth" area to the outer edge of the disc), and see if there's any warping, cracks, etc. on the discs.

If you can see the brake pad, you should also be able to tell how worn out that is too...

Rob.

I was quoted

.... all i shall say is my dad works there and i get a good discount

Well I was told that the inside of the pads were heavily worn but the outside of the pads have lots of life in them. I can see the outside easy enough its seeing the inside thats difficult and thats why I asked KwikFit to check. Is the sensor cable easy enough to fix if its snapped?

new pads usually come with new cables to fit when you swap the pads over, theres normally a small connector along the cable to take out the old and put the new one in. if the cable is snapped past this point you'll need to patch it up somehow.

if you look at the disk, how much of a lip is there around the outer edge? if your talking 0.5-1mm or less then the disks are fine.

if the outside pad has more than 4mm of pad then thats fine and the same for the inside.

i'd be careful taking your car to a garage etc that you dont know or trust from previous experience. if you walk in there asking them to check the brakes or whatever as you "think" they might be worn they are never going to tell you they are fine.

Disc replacement is determined by a minimum disc thickness. If you ask Lummox or Big K they will tell you what it is - I can't remember just now.

I'm guessing because they're sliding calipers and the piston is on the inside, it's natural for the inside pad to wear more quickly than the outside. You can easily inspect them by taking a wheel off though - only takes 10 minutes.

Changing them is pretty easy on the fronts apart from getting that silly spring on the back of the inboard pad into the piston bore. Two bolts to remove the caliper, and a screw holding the disc on.

So are these what I need?

Mine is a 2001 but don't know whether to choose upto to 2001 or 2001 onwards?

http://www.eurocarparts.com/ecommerce/Search_Results.asp

http://www.eurocarparts.com/ecommerce/Search_Results.asp

The link only takes you to the search page, not to the individual parts. What model and engine is your car?

The 2001 on probably refers to the facelift. I'm not aware that the brakes changed, but I could be wrong.

Oops sorry, well on that page under braking I clicked on front discs and front pads. Each link has two different items available about the same price.

OK well i've had a quote of £150 fitted using Ferodo pads and disks. Are these any good?

Fine. Ferodo are a well-known manufacturer of pads - the discs will be made by someone else, probably.

Just been on Ebc website and it came to

Just been on Ebc website and it came to

OK well i've had a quote of