My nickel's worth........ Rotors ATE Pads Mintex Above are what I have been using on my 84 Westy with no issues for the past 7 years. Zimmerman is a very good quality brand when it comes to rotors and have used these on a few other VWs I've owned (currently on my Ghia & 411). For pads - ATE, Jurid, Pagid, PBR (both Deluxe and Metal-Master) are all brands I've used on a variety of disc brake VWs (and a few Japanese vehicles I've owned) over the years, all with excellent results. Some people say that Metal Masters tend to chew up rotors, but I haven't had that experience, I guess because I use good quality, not CHEEP rotors. YMMV -- Jim Thompson 84 Westfalia 2.1 "Ole Putt" 73 K Ghia Coupe "Denise" 72 411 Station Wagon "Pug" oldvolkshome@gmail.com http://www.oldvolkshome.com ********************************** On 9/8/06, TC <trclark@shaw.ca> wrote: > > seems quite a range of brands for front rotors/pads are they any brands to > stay aways from > I see I can get Listed from least expensive order > Rotors > Zimmerman > ATE > Brembo > POWERSLOT CRYO (way expensive) > > Pads > JURID > PBR > Bendix > > if your fav is not listed is there other barnds I should get ?? |
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