Mark Fish-New Brakes

[nelson182]

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:

 

[manicmonkey]

how much for that little lot mate?

 

[nelson182]

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!

 

[stan*]

Who told you to bed them in like that?

Out of intrest

 

[MrStabby]

Great package aint it Nick, just wait till the Mintex start squealing thats all Im saying

 

[homer simpson]

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:

what mintex pad's have you had ?

 

[MrStabby]

Knowing Mark, they will be the 1144's

 

[Karen]

Ah you finally got them done!

 

[Matt 16v]

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

 

[jayxx83]

Sounds mint mate.

 

[Dubai182]

Whoa there on the £407!!!!

Think Yozza is somewhat cheaper than that

 

[White16valver]

Don't worry about the squealing - quiet brakes are for girls lol

 

[John185k]

holy f**k, 400 quid on discs, pads and lines!!

 

[Tom_E]

ive got mintex and brembo HC on mine and they squeal and clunk like a bi*ch

least they work.

 

[Jamie]

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.

 

[Dash]

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!

That's the main thing. You went to a proper place and paid a reasonable price for expert work.

 

[White16valver]

I paid about £350ish I think once I had mine fitted and the brake fluid done.

 

[skinner]

Is that all round or just the front?

 

[White16valver]

Mine? New front pads and disks, with braided lines all round and Dot 4 fluid.

 

[stan*]

Its fitting brakes...hardly expert work!

So who said bed them in by taking it easy?!

 

[White16valver]

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.

 

[stan*]

hmmmm

 

[S22 JGS]

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

 

[nelson182]

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]

Great package aint it Nick, just wait till the Mintex start squealing thats all Im saying

No real squealing as of yet, and yes it was the 1144 pads!

 

[nelson182]

Ah you finally got them done!

Yep, thought it was about time, what with the crap weather setting in!

 

[nelson182]

Whoa there on the £407!!!!

Think Yozza is somewhat cheaper than that

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:

 

[S22 JGS]

im going to mark this month hopefully... just waiting for my H&R's to turn up

 

[garymac1]

im going to mark this month hopefully... just waiting for my H&R's to turn up

I just got new uprated brake discs and green stuff pads all round which also had the rear bearings for 328quid from k-tec. brakes are unreal

 

[nelson182]

Cool mate. Are you going to get brakes lines upgraded too? You will really feel the extra benefit!

 

[garymac1]

Cool mate. Are you going to get brakes lines upgraded too? You will really feel the extra benefit!

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]

Brakes sound good

I would have fitted them myself though

 

[CHRIS172CUP]

Great package aint it Nick, just wait till the Mintex start squealing thats all Im saying

No real squealing as of yet, and yes it was the 1144 pads!

LOL, yeah they squeel really nicely. I love it

Mark is the man.

 

[nelson182]

Brakes sound good

I would have fitted them myself though

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!

 

[Fred@BTM]

Whoa there on the £407!!!!

Think Yozza is somewhat cheaper than that

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:

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

 

[Ali]

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...

 

[Fred@BTM]

ah so thats why your caliper fell off at Cadwell

 

[cli0 172]

ah so thats why your caliper fell off at Cadwell

pmsl !

 

[nelson182]

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...

Haha, not had squealing yet really.

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

 

[White16valver]

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:

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

Mine worked out about that when I had my YS Pagid Blue setup fitted at BB