Upgrading Brake pads when due for replacement?

[Anonymous]

Hi all,

I am due for a new set of brake pads and my car is going into toyota soon and i know they will bring the matter up! I was wondering if anyone has tried any other brake pads other than the standard Toyota Items and what their verdict is?

Regards

Dom

[Anonymous]

I have no experience of any other brake pads than standard on this car, but I was very pleased with some mintex 1144 pads on my AW11 (mark 1 MR2) and know that they come highly recommended for many other cars over standard pads.

I'm pretty sure that I'll go for some of the mintex pads when my front discs eventually need replacing (going rusty at 3 years/40k miles).

What does anyone else think, btw!?!  s8) s8)

[aaronjb]

The concensus seems to be (certainly, this was the deal not so long ago) that for road & track use on a standard or mildly tuned car, stock pads are more than adequate with very little fade even after several hard laps.

The only people who've really had problems on track are the turbo boys, even then I seem to recall mph was only running TRD pads, though I could be wrong on that.

Certainly nobody was running any exotic setups that I know of.

[proeliator2001]

I used Redstuff V3 Ceramics on my old CTR and they were fantastic, no fade and a lot more bite once warm.  Less brake dust too IIRC.

However, given the low weight and power of the '2 I doubt you'd need such an agressive pad.  My stock '2 pads seem almost as good as the redstuff.  If you had to change, maybe Greenstuff (<200bhp cars) would be better as they create almost no brake dust at all.  ( though TBH, I'll be getting ceramics again once these wear down as I had so much confidence doing high speed braking).