Mintex brakes any good?

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Mintex brakes any good?

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Well I serviced the old bus on the weekend (which is another story!) and discovered that both the front brake discs are knackered. Well, when I say discovered, technically I mean that I noticed about a year ago that they were starting to go a bit dodgy, but chose to ignore the fact in a "if I don't look at it it'll fix itself" kinda way :oops:

Anyway the upshot is I'm gonna have to change them. Now, after a bad experience with crappy aftermarket brakes in my dim and distant past, I like to buy original equipment wherever possible. But last time the [s]robbing theiving bastards[/s] main stealer charged me forty summat quid just for pads, so I've been having a browse elsewhere. This bloke on ebayis selling full axle sets (2 discs and 4 pads) mabe by Mintex for £61 delivered. D'you lot reckon they're any good?
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See if you can find out the spec, they might be just the thing for track days but nye on useless if they're not hot enough.
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mintex are just about the best, with ATE not far behind, i would avoid apec pads, and genuine ones are usually lucas in a blue pug box :lol:
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jameslxdt wrote:mintex are just about the best, with ATE not far behind, i would avoid apec pads, and genuine ones are usually lucas in a blue pug box :lol:
I agree, i have mintex in mine the thing really does stop well and they seam to be wearing pretty well (~30K and still sheds loads of meet left).

Also fitted them to my last car, they resulted in it getting written off! I stopped (with 1/2 inch to spare!) bloke behind didn't, bye bye car!
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Qualifying myself again: When I was a lad, in response to peer pressure (yougottagetMintexthey'rethedog'swotsits...) I put some on my (ahem) Hillman Avenger. They were crap. I went back to the shop and the geezer said "what did you expect, they're racing pads."
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Although I'm thinking anything's better than the OE rear disks...
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Ordered the Mintex set, looks like that's gonna be a job for next weekend then :?
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