Just got back from having my MY2002 WRX serviced at 20000 miles. Boy it sure hurts to pay £140 for a five minute oil and filter change, they didnt even need to change the air filter as I have a panel filter fitted.

What hurt more was being told on the phone that the front pads neede replacement and it would be a further £150 ish for that. So I decided to buy the pads and fit myself. Ouch !! they charged me £105. Thats absolute robbery. But I had no choice because my local Motor Factors told me that as yet nobody makes a non-OE pad for the WRX.

Does anyone know if this is true?

What hurt even more was when I came to fit them this weekend I found that the original pads had still got 5 mm thickness left and didnt need replacement anyway !!

Stratman

have a cosy seat and breathe deeply.........we do O.E.M quality pads for.........less than £50inc. VAT!!!! for the money you've paid you are not far away from a "proper" pad........
personally i would return them to Subaru and get your money back.......
best of luck,
alyn - asperformance.com

Stratman, I think you have been "done" :( IIRC, there are plenty of aftermarket pads in OE fitment for the Scoob - just look at all the usual suspects as most of them have a selection.....

Matt :)

As Alyn says, you can get quite a few "performance" brake pads for the money!

My standard pads cost me £40 from Partco. (Inc VAT IIRC) It's only a half hour job to change them on Subaru 4 pots too.

Thanks guys for your comments

I have always bought my pads from Brakes International here in Rochdale, and fitted them myself on my previouse 3 classic scoobs ( its a doddle ) but in this case they told me that there was nothing available in aftermarket pads for the WRX MY2002, which is why I coughed up the £105.

Well I am going to take em back and contact Alyn or Partco and do it myself.

Cheers

Aren't they the same pad as the earlier cars, they are the same caliper!!!!!!!!!

yes the "new-age" wrx uses the subaru 4pot like lots of classics before them.............
alyn - asperformance.com

Thanks again for that.

Will be in touch Alyn as soon as I have returned the rip-off set back to the Dealer.

Yes I'm on my 3rd set of front pads on my my01 & can confirm that they are the same as the 99 model Impreza & Nissan 300ZX, I use mintex pads which I get for £25 from my local very friendly motor factors !

The part nos. is MDB1416AF

Hope this helps, I hate hearing about people getting ripped off !

555:D

I replaced the standard ones due to unbelievable squealing with a set from Graham Goode Racing, for around £40. They've been excellent so far, about 16,000 miles ago and still got a fair bit left on them. :)

My sti8 withstd. brembos uses the same pad as an evo fitted with brembos.

Mintex 1155's about £70 a set.

You could also do a lot worse than speak to Lyndon or John at Performance Braking on 01600 713117. Pagid pads at excellent prices, and top people to boot... :)

My dealer fitted a new set of OE pads for £70+vat inc fitting

Go to another dealer ... especially if you bought the car off them ;)

Jza

One dealer i spoke to before buying my STI 8, said "don't bother paying £300 for the OE Brembo pads, go find some cheaper aftermarket alternatives and we'll fit them for you".

Mintex/Ferodo/Pagid look like the options when the time comes.

"personally i would return them to Subaru and get your money back......."

I doubt very much they'll take them back - being used n' all

I hunted everywhere for non-OEM rear pads for a MY02. Ended up paying £90 for OEM ones!

Crooks.

I headr something about OMP pads, they cost only 40 Euros, what is equivalent to 25 pounds !!!!
This is the link to a dutch site where they sell them, personally I think it's wirth a try.
I heard several good comments on them, even from track-day drivers !

http://www.autosportcompany.nl/RemmenRemblokken_overzichtSubaru.html

Creepy

PS : Feel free to ask a question about translation or so !!!

:confused: Eh? Bugeye WRX's use the same pads as the GC8 STi Type R's. You should be able to get this shape pad at any decent braking specialist.

Performance Braking definitely do the Pagid version, and I daresay the likes of Tweeks and Alyn would carry suitable pads too.

£25 for the 4 pot pads from Godfreys motor factors in Leeds..as you say i went to subaru first and they wantedt £105 for the same pads.

By the way the ones from Godfreys are actually Mintex but not sure what compound?

Darren

Do they have Mintex branding printed on the pad backs, or did the bloke behind the counter tell you they're Mintex?

at that price they will be the std replacement pads.......find in general that there is a lot of difference between O.E. quality pads and just general replacement pads.....hencs the various prices doing the rounds........
alyn - asperformance.com

mintex brand on pad and boxed up as mintex and was there when mintex delivered there stock.

Darren

They could be Mintex pads then...

there mintex pads but they're not that good at all they fade very quickly if used hard and brake dust is quite bad aswell!!!

Darren

Well, you weren't expecting 1155's for £25 were you? ;)

Tend to look at these things as a false economy though. Bearing in mind you can get proper pads for £60 to £70, £25 quid for pigeon poo that wears and fades doesn't seem like a particularly good deal.

[Edited by greasemonkey - 8/26/2003 6:33:32 PM]

yes but they work, it was only to get the car on the road. wether it will stay there is another matter:D throw that anchor out:) :D

Darren