Uprated pads on the rear but not front....

[mikey123]

Im in need of new rear brake pads.
Around the £40 mark for OEM ones but i can get yellow stuff pads for £44.

Would it be ok to run uprated pads on the rear and OEM up front?

Not going to out balance the braking?

 

[sideways danny]

just get the cheapest you can find for the rear TBH. Motrio are very reasonably priced from renault

and do not use EBC. Ever

 

[mikey123]

Im not doing that haha. I know the fronts do most of the braking but im still going to spend decent cash on the rears, even if it is only £40!

 

[JackJack]

No it wont unbalance your brakes
Its pointless uprating the rear and not the front

 

[Fred@BTM]

half that cost fella!

 

[sideways danny]

Seriously, Motrio pads, from renault. they're under £20

edit. £19.62 to be exact

 

[rich-6]

Seriously, Motrio pads, from renault. they're under £20

£12 or thereabouts at my motorfactors lol

 

[sideways danny]

£12 or thereabouts at my motorfactors lol

yeah, well you can get even cheaper. I've fitted front pads on my cars in the past that cost £9 (i removed EBC greenstuff as they were dangerous)

 

[jack_kemp]

EBC are probably worse than the oem pads. I haven't read anything good about them on here.

The rear pads do literally FA. There is no point whatsoever in updating rear pads. Maybe you should just buy new fronts as well if you're desperate to upgrade your pads

 

[Fred@BTM]

careful you 2 godspeed will be after you!

 

[slindborg]

I had some greens on my omega... they were ACE!!!!!! so it seems that if you want ebc's to be good you need a car that weighs about the same as Saturn lol

 

[Macca_172]

I haven't read anything good about them on here

Its there if you look

 

[jack_kemp]

I'm not sure why this is.... They seem to be very good on some other marque's but just get slaughtered in Clio reviews.

 

[slindborg]

it appears that if the car weighs less than a ton, ebc's suck.... if the car weighs over a ton they range from ok to great lol

 

[Hugo-]

Standard pads as already said.

My rear pads have been on last knocking's for about 20k and still have a bit of life left in them, and that includes 4 trackdays. That tells you how much they do.