If so what do you think ?
Alternative recommendations welcome !
Alternative recommendations welcome !
Anyone used Brembo carbon ceramic pads ?
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roamer
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Pads
Brake pads seem to be like tyres when it comes to preference,
My experience with ebc hh sintered over many years and different bikes has been good, no excessive disc wear and good feel with a good price,
Roamer,
Brake pads seem to be like tyres when it comes to preference,
My experience with ebc hh sintered over many years and different bikes has been good, no excessive disc wear and good feel with a good price,
Roamer,
I think that's what the OE pads are anyway.
Godzilla
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Front or rear?
both .
Fanum
Toubab
Expensive brake pads (to me anyway) are a bit like expensive spark plugs.
If you can't lock up the front or back when you want to, or if your current pads are wearing too fast or lack 'feel', it may be worth changing, but if you can kick in your ABS and the wear rate is reasonable, they do what they are supposed to do then spending significant sums of money above the cost of 'normal' pads is, to my eyes, a waste
PS I use sintered rather than organic pads and find them better for 'feel' in that they are 'progressive' where I found the organic ones were 'grabby'.......
If you can't lock up the front or back when you want to, or if your current pads are wearing too fast or lack 'feel', it may be worth changing, but if you can kick in your ABS and the wear rate is reasonable, they do what they are supposed to do then spending significant sums of money above the cost of 'normal' pads is, to my eyes, a waste
PS I use sintered rather than organic pads and find them better for 'feel' in that they are 'progressive' where I found the organic ones were 'grabby'.......
Expensive brake pads (to me anyway) are a bit like expensive spark plugs.
If you can't lock up the front or back when you want to, or if your current pads are wearing too fast or lack 'feel', it may be worth changing, but if you can kick in your ABS and the wear rate is reasonable, they do what they are supposed to do then spending significant sums of money above the cost of 'normal' pads is, to my eyes, a waste
PS I use sintered rather than organic pads and find them better for 'feel' in that they are 'progressive' where I found the organic ones were 'grabby'.......
I actually quite like the OEM ones that are in at the moment and I think that the Brembo carbon ceramic are, as mentioned by CPJS, the same. They Are of course considerably cheaper than BMW branded pads and there is not a great deal of difference in price between these and the EBC/ ferrodo
Fanum
Toubab
Ahaa........but I wouldn't be buying the BMW branded ones.......I have very little doubt (but no proof) that they are made by one of the big name manufacturers in the first place anyway (at £x) then sold on through BMW with a very expensive logo printed on them (at £x+50%)
Mahler make the OEM filters on the 1150, them BMW print the roundel on and double the price......the same goes for BMW branded oils (no idea who brews that, but it ain't BMW!) and so on.
I wouldn't go as far as getting some no-name Eastern European pads, but I'm quite happy to use any branded pads, oil, filters, plugs or whatever
+1 but I do like the standard pads in this instance.
Got some organic EBC rear pads for my 2013 ages ago after all the stories on here about the originals wearing out, but have just had the originals out with just under 10k miles on as we have a 2.5k mile trip coming up to Austria only to compare them to the new pads and find they are only about 50% worn so put them back in!
The bike is going soon after so I may put the new pads in before that?
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Titto
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Got EBC rears for £17. They are great. The dealer wanted £75 quid!!! The same Brembo ones online are £35. Took a few minutes to change the rears over and I would not hesitate to use EBC for the fronts either. Massive cost savings to be had.
Having had the rears out and discovering that after 7k miles they are looking well past their best ( the fronts don't look as bad) I have just ordered a set of the Brembo sintered jobbies and despite the fronts still having some life the same as i may as well do it now as wait a month or 2
So will see how they perform
So will see how they perform
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