Pads...what would you fit?
 

Pads all round V40 D3 what would you fit?

Padgid £55
Brembo £64
Genuine £120

Or can I get them cheaper elsewhere?! :-)

Just genuine Volvo parts... apparantly aftermarket ones rattle in Volvos

as Phillg1986 said above - but get a quote from FRF Swansea quoting "C" you might well find they come in much cheaper than buying locally.

forum link is https://www.volvoforums.org.uk/showthread.php?t=57125
using the phone number.

Another vote for genuine, I’ve tried loads of aftermarket over the years on my different volvos and genuine is the only way really.

I had new discs and pads fitted by Kwikfit on my old XC90. They were absolutely fine and i had no issues at all.

I’m sure they were fine but for what you can get genuine for now I would personally always go genuine now. Genuine pads and disks lasted 100k on my s60 which you just wouldn’t get from aftermarket.

I actually found ELK Performance offered the best price for pads on my car

Depends how long you are planning on keeping the car and your annual mileage :).

For what it is worth, the only other pads that come close are those manufactured by the Danish company of Rolunds who apparently were the OEM producer for many Volvos - I used them several times when re-fitting the 850 - certainly couldn't tell any difference in performance between them and genuine Volvo pads up to 2012. (When placed side by side there was no detectable difference in colour etc.)

However, I think they might now be manufactured in India but if they are the Rolunds spec I don't think they'd be any different if they've got the Rolunds name on them.

I remember fitting non Volvo Pads in my 1987 740 Turbo many years ago a few weeks before going on holiday to Scotland, (£22 v £50 for genuine at the time) all was ok until I was driving down a long mountain pass and using the brakes quite a lots and they started to fade away until there was hardly any braking at all. I drove straight to Oban and to the Volvo dealers and bought a set of Volvo pads and fitted them at the cottage we were staying in. They were far better. I did that same run a few more times and the brakes were perfect with genuine pads. So instead of saving £28 it cost me a total of £72. But could have been worse if I had not made one of those bends on that road.