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Mark Fish-New Brakes

nelson182

nelson182

Car  182 Full Fat
Went to Mark Fish on Saturday to have the brakes upgraded.

Had Fitted:
New discs (Brembo hi-carbon)
Mintex Fast road pads
Goodridge Braided hoses
Dot 5 fluid

Just spent most of yesterday doing town driving to bed them in. I must say i am so impressed with the improvement! I haven't done an emergency stop test yet. But the pedal response os amazing. Throughly recommend him.
Details here: http://www.markfish.co.uk/ :star:
 
Cost £407 which sounds a lot, but did include labour and the time of someone who does a lot of work with race clio's and meganes. Parts alone were about £240. Well please with the results tho!
 
nelson182 said:
Went to Mark Fish on Saturday to have the brakes upgraded.

Had Fitted:
New discs (Brembo hi-carbon)
Mintex Fast road pads
Goodridge Braided hoses
Dot 5 fluid

Just spent most of yesterday doing town driving to bed them in. I must say i am so impressed with the improvement! I haven't done an emergency stop test yet. But the pedal response os amazing. Throughly recommend him.
Details here: http://www.markfish.co.uk/ :star:
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what mintex pad's have you had ?
 
nice one, i had similiar fitted at Yozza the other week, but i had green stuff pads instead, the brembo discs are so much better, i've been wanting to really test them recently...gonna get myself on a track soon
 
ive got mintex and brembo HC on mine and they squeal and clunk like a bi*ch

least they work.
 
i got a 4pot conversion, and that was only £580 which was friggin dear for that. You could get a set of wilwood 4pots for circa £400, let alone some pads and discs and fitting (£167 for fitting, wtf?!)! but as long as u are happy with them thats the main thing.
 
nelson182 said:
Cost £407 which sounds a lot, but did include labour and the time of someone who does a lot of work with race clio's and meganes. Parts alone were about £240. Well please with the results tho!
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That's the main thing. You went to a proper place and paid a reasonable price for expert work.
 
most companies do, don't they? I did about 250 miles gently to wear the disks in, then did several high speed slowing down exercises in quick succession to bed the pads in.
 
you dont need to wear in the discs... there are 2 parts to bedding in your brakes....
1 putting a thin layer of pad onto the disc
2 baking the pad free of its binding chemicals
 
Yeah as S22JGS says, wear the thin layer of pad onto the disc. Then after about 50 miles (thats all) you can hammer them! Mark recommended I did long gentle braking to warm the discs right through to begin with. I will say that although it wss £400, we did do a few other little jobs, like stop my exhaust knocking on heat shield. Plus tidy up the front splitter that was sitting loose.
 
nelson182 said:
Cool mate. Are you going to get brakes lines upgraded too? You will really feel the extra benefit!
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Nice one. do they make that much dif. if so i'll get them in the post asap.lol. I'm terrible the now. spent like 1800 on bits in the last month and i've now got my manifold done and on its way to me. New oz wheels for xmas. :)
 
Neil G said:
Brakes sound good

I would have fitted them myself though
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I will probably have a go myself on the brake pads/discs next time, but wasn't too hot on what to do on the brake lines, and Mark spent 15odd minutes bleeding all the air out of it with his son, which I probably counld't have done properly! ;) Plus don't have any copper slip and other cleaning agents he used on discs. Just convienient!
 
nelson182 said:
Dubai182 said:
Whoa there on the £407!!!!

Think Yozza is somewhat cheaper than that
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Think he quoted about £350ish to me, but Mark was nearer, and had been recommended by people I know! Not that Yozza isn't as good of course! :approve:
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for £350 you could've had our top spec pagid blue kit fitted!!

2-2.25 hrs labour (£45+vat) we charge to fit, prices for brake kits are on the website
 
Mark Fish is very good. Neva heard a bad word about them...But they know how to charge. The Mintex pads are embarasing to say the least! People Stare as they think a bus is going to hit them!

I've got brembo Grp N - 52£
Pads 45£
Lines 41£
Fluid 12£

All fitted by me...
 
Ali said:
Mark Fish is very good. Neva heard a bad word about them...But they know how to charge. The Mintex pads are embarasing to say the least! People Stare as they think a bus is going to hit them!

I've got brembo Grp N - 52£
Pads 45£
Lines 41£
Fluid 12£

All fitted by me...
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Haha, not had squealing yet really.

How did you find belleding the brakes with the fluid change mate/
 
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