What Do You Think About Ebc Breaks

Any7ime · March 12, 2014

Hello,

My 2008 IS220d is in the need of new breaking discs, and I saw the EBC one's.

What do you think about this brand? Are brembo better discs?

Regards

Stuno1 · March 12, 2014

WBC have a good rep. Manufactured in the uk I believe. Not heard any bad stories about them.

steve2006 · March 12, 2014

I fitted EBC Ultimate pads on the rear of my LS400 once,worse pads ever IMHO,had to file the slots to allow the wear sensors to fit correctly and once fitted were the most noisy dust producing pads ever.

Came back off after less than 2000 miles!

Stuno1 · March 12, 2014

Lol, theres a bad review then! now i have heard something bad about them.

Any7ime · March 13, 2014

Thx for the feedback.

I fitted EBC Ultimate pads on the rear of my LS400 once,worse pads ever IMHO,had to file the slots to allow the wear sensors to fit correctly and once fitted were the most noisy dust producing pads ever.

Came back off after less than 2000 miles!

Wich pads have you used?

SmokyMo · April 4, 2014

I have red stuff all round and so far they are good, no complains. Also there is not much dust from them

javadude · April 4, 2014

I used EBC green stuff pads on my IS200. They stopped well and didn't give off as much dust as the standard pads.

ChumpusRex · April 21, 2014

Switched to redstuff on the front with ultimax slotted discs, after a caliper pin seizure destroyed my front pads and discs.

I was originally going to go for the "high" carbon discs, but they were temporarily out of stock and I needed them urgently as there was no friction material left, and it was metal-on-metal grinding.

The redstuff have noticably more "bite" than the stock pads, slowing the car with less pedal effort. However, they are very temperature sensitive - although when cold they have at least as good as OEM "bite", once hot, they bite like a pitbull. This was a bit scary the first time on motorway driving after some high speed B road driving - when I came to the exit slip road, and the pads had cooled off, they had lost their incredible hot bite, and the pedal was nowhere near as stiff and responsive as I had become used to earlier.

The other advantage with redstuff is a MASSIVE reduction in brake dust. The OEM pads were ridiculous for that.

What I don't know is how long the pads and discs will last. Although the ultimax discs are expensive premium discs, they are made of cheap "grey iron". Most OEM discs these days are made of a special iron alloy called GG15HC, rather than "grey iron".