Is it illegal?

Does it void insurance?

Type60 or 90 approval for road pads iirc

 

about as illegal as using a decat exhaust "not specified" for road use i imagine.....

 

Exhaust won't be blamed for a car accident though.

Unapproved pads could though.

 

My pads state not to use on the road.....but tbh, i cant tell much performance difference under normal driving than pads that are supposedly for road use if you see what i mean.....

 

How would anyone ever know?

Not for road use is an a**e covering exercise by the pad makers in response to another bit of nanny state bureaucratic nonsense, probably from the EU.

Ignore it and use whatever pads are appropriate for your use.

 

when you have done some mileage on the pads , the markings on them will dissapear so no one woould know what they are anyway

 

one of the reasons the directive was brought in was to stop cheap cornflakes packets being passed off as brake material, and give a form of safety net to the consumer..................

this test gives a +/- percentage variance from the O.E. material spec for friction / life / etc....................the main problem with most performance orientated pads is that they are too "good" in terms of friction and fall outside of the regulation........

buy good quality pads and don't worry.

alyn

 

Yep, I knew that really. So I withdraw my comment about nanny state legislation.

It's legislation with good intent but unfortunate side effects. So still ignore it

 

Sounds like technically it could cause a problem with insurance if the assessor is clued up.

Some performance pads have notoriously bad braking from cold which is where it 'could' make the difference in the event of a claim.