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Feb 15th, 2018, 19:18 | #1 |
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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?! :-) |
Feb 15th, 2018, 19:38 | #2 |
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Just genuine Volvo parts... apparantly aftermarket ones rattle in Volvos
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Feb 15th, 2018, 20:02 | #3 |
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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.
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Feb 15th, 2018, 21:16 | #4 |
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Another vote for genuine, I’ve tried loads of aftermarket over the years on my different volvos and genuine is the only way really.
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I had new discs and pads fitted by Kwikfit on my old XC90. They were absolutely fine and i had no issues at all.
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Feb 17th, 2018, 22:46 | #6 |
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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.
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Feb 17th, 2018, 22:55 | #7 |
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I actually found ELK Performance offered the best price for pads on my car
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Feb 20th, 2018, 14:19 | #8 |
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Depends how long you are planning on keeping the car and your annual mileage .
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Feb 20th, 2018, 15:02 | #9 |
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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.
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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.
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