Free?Have booked the car into kwik fit tomorrow morn to have a brake test. This way I hope to see tangable proof one way or t'other of whether it is any good. Once tested I will fit the kit and have it tested again so we can compare the results. They have said they will do the tests for free.
I was just looking out the kitchen window like you do .....an looking at the disc's of my F
an a thought came to me, I've got drilled an grooved front an rear discs
why cant I just have 305mm disc on the rear as well as the front??
I've got 4pots on the front and standard calipers with small pads on the rear
This would sort the need of the centres, hub size etc, the 305mm would fit striaght on
BUT, would there be enough brake bias to the front ???
I thought about this for all of 2 seconds and came up with this, as standard the normal bog standard mgf has the same discs front an back, so with this in mind the centres etc will be the same, Yupp......and if they had the same disc's as standard then the bias would be the same if I increase both discs to the same size all be it increased
Only problem then would be, as mentioned before front are thicker and would they fit with new pads, maybe not......so my question is how much thicker is a vented disc to a solid one...well next problem just got my hands black ....24mm approx and 11m approx
next problem rear caliper carrier wont take that thickness an not enough on it to make it
soooo after all that Nope it wont work, unless the front caliper carrier will fit the rear caliper????? not found one yet so dont know
But the fronts would have failed an MOT as they were 30% out from each other.
Not a biggy as I am changing the fromt disks for the EBC drilled and grooved ones and fitting greenstuff pads, so I will have to check out the callipers while they are off.
Funny thing is that I can emergency stop, with my hands off the steering wheel and it doesn't pull at all. Weird
He also said to just come back when I had fitted the mod and he would retest the brakes.
I know Kwik Fit often get slated on forums, but I really couldn't fault them. Top blokes in Kwik Fit of Ashington.
Now I have to fit the new rear discs and kit. Will see what the weather is like tomorrow.