Dazza's-STi

Team

The brakes on my STI are crap.... does anyone else think so...

Poor pedal feel, very wooden, i can get them to fade in 3-4 corners... have to input way too much force to get any retardation...

Hopeing that a new set of pads will change this; but as it is my Diesel Clio has much better brakes! believe it or not it does... it stops almost as well as my old BM 330 and that had the best feeling brakes i've felt on any car...

Please tell me some decent pads will sort this otherwise its going to be an expensive brake swap...

Thanx ...


Dazza

BAH

Iv just gone from a classic to an 03 STI and brakeds feel good to me...

coolangatta

Brakes on my one year old STi are pretty good.
No probs with fade at all yet.
Are yours the Brembo 4 pots??(Front)

Coolangatta

PC555

The brakes on my MY03 STI are fantastic .... stops on a sixpence so to speak

TonyBurns

iTrader: (3)

Nothing wrong with mine
Have you tried looking at your driving style??

Tony

JohnD

iTrader: (5)

They're not crap but I was expecting better! I would also consider a pad change.
JohnD

wakeboardar

best brakes ive ever had 04 sti

Dazza's-STi

Mmmmmm


Thks guys...

I'll have to change the pads and see how it goes...

defo sumut rong then...

may have cooked the pads @ the track day....

will c with the pad change....

BlueBoy

I half agree - I wouldn't say they were crap, not bad brakes, but after going over to AP's there's no turning back to Brembo for me. But they do cost a good bit.

I'm not someone who uses brakes a lot in my driving style (after 22K miles I've used less than 25% of my pads - the discs are more worn in comparisson), but when I use them I tend to really use them and the AP's do me proud there unlike the Brembos, so it could well be your driving style if it's anything like mine

Glenn_R

Dazza, have to agree with you mate. I also reckon the brakes on my 03STi are pretty pants - huge amounts of pedal travel and little feel means I always end up braking miles before I should need to Have even upgraded pads to Pagid rs421's but this only makes things better when you really stamp on them. Currently thinking about upgrading the disks and see if this helps.

Maybe I had too much of a good thing with the AP's on my old P1. Wish I had kept them

CustomScoobyIOM

I put APs on mine.

Brembos were poo, but a simple pad and disc change sorts that!

mwp

dazza,

i'd tend to agree on heavy use. I just got some Ferodo DS2500 pads and new brembo discs (front) to be fitted on tue.

i'll let you know.

- mark.