The Rig

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Phoned Partco for some brake pads, £60 all in for unipart front and rears for my95.

phoned main stealers, £210 for front and rears, are they made of gold !!!!

scoobynutta555

Probably cheaper than 60 on Ebay.

GC8

Personally; I wouldnt fit (cheaper) pattern brake linings to an Impreza; you do understand why that is dont you?

clintyboy12

Instead of PartCo, there is a company in Addlestone, Surrey which provides OEM standard parts for a fraction of the price...
I got some discs for my last Scoob (after 2 lots warped and it then went out of warranty and not a track day in sight!) and I remember thinking exactly the same thing!
https://www.sapmotorparts.com

The Rig

iTrader: (13)

well, i can see what your incinuating, but to be honest, i dont think the pads that come from subaru are that different in compound to the unipart ones, redstuff etc maybe, but standard subaru ones, na, im not convinced, i dont think subaru have a "special" part of the factory that makes pads just for them !

feel free to show me otherwise tho !

The Rig

iTrader: (13)

maybe,but with the rip off p&p about now, a set of pads are costing, wll, so they say and i know it doesnt, £8.99 !!

considering i send alot of stuff etc too, but i just bought some discs, front set, at a cost of £7 with parcel force !

anyhoo.....

The Rig

iTrader: (13)

Just took a look, they quote price each, so its still £100+ for front/rear but yeah, still cheaper than dealer, but not cheapest

cheers.....

richieh

from memory at my local factors(trade account) paid about £25 front £6 rear for a facelift classic-oe quality
richie

scoobyboy

been there with pads from a motor factors and performance pads and main dealer pads and to be honest the main dealers were better, the motor factors had no bite at all not to mention no squeal shims and the performance had bite but were as noisy as hell and the main dealer stuff was quiet with good bite so now i only use main dealer stuff.

mart360

i dont understand your misconception, for a pattern part or oem supplier to make parts, they must meet/ exceed legal requirements. just because a brake pad is marked girling or amp dosent mean one will stop you and one wont. Both by law have to meet defined standards., so either onw will work.

Agreed, the bigger oem may spend more money on research, or have more exotic compounds, but thats about all. no oem is going to claim his/her pad will out stop another, incase it dosent and they get sued.

Incedentally, many of the big manufacturers, make the same parts for the pattern suppliers and the oem, the only differance being that one will have an oem part number and logo on it the other wont. If you want to pay 99% profit to an oem for a standard part, then its your choice, but ask yourself where does the oem get his parts from? from smaller suppliers, who also supply other companys. so all you are doing is paying over the odds


Mart

The Rig

iTrader: (13)

Well, what a result !!

ordered the pads from unipart, be in this afternoon, price, £58,cool,pay when they arrive.................

pick them up,guy rings it thru, £18 please !!!!!!

thats for a complete front/rear pad set !

beat that !

richieh

see above
richie

The Rig

iTrader: (13)

Yeah,but i paid a total of £18 for front and rear set of pads !!!

Andygreer

iTrader: (4)

Well, I got some cheap pads on the 206gti, and they squeel liek hell ive stripped them down 3 times now.... Was goign to put new pads in but its goes next week when i collect the scooby Doo