Britpart discs!

Dont do it!
Should've known that £45 for two front discs and a set of pads for a P38 was too good to be true. Advertised as "aftermarket part" (the discs) what arrived in boxes surreptitiously covered up with brown tape was the word BRITPART :doh:. The Mintex pads are acceptable though. Thought I'd give them a go anyway but after dismantling the old units I set about trying to fit the new discs. They do not go on! Main hole in the middle seems about .5mm too small and one of the stud holes is closer to the middle than the other 4.
Back in their boxes, old discs back on (easily) and a phone call to have the supplier send a courier to collect the new scrap and a visit to my local specialist for Bearmach is on the cards for tomorrow.

the mintex stuff is cheap enough from padwanks to make it not worth bothering with other ****e!

Thanks for the info as I need to do my Discs soon! What did the supplier say?

I got my discs from MM-4x4. Not sure on the make. But the pads with mintex. Done around 40,000 miles on both and still going strong.

Discs going back to supplier. Apparently it's the first ever problem with them! Checked them with micrometer and one of the stud holes IS 1mm further away from the centre and the other set (two P38s) has a stonking great fracture line across the middle which was obvious when I unwrapped it out of the polythene. It's not the supplier's fault, just the quality of the particular discs I got. Bearmachs ordered this afternoon. The Mintex pads are ok though, I use them on the Jaguar.

the AP/ Delphi discs from Bearmach are spot on, just a tad more than there own price wise, thats all we stock at the moment, and the terrafirma slotted n drilled discs are ace!! Mintex or Ferrodo, or even EBC pads are quite simply, great..

Britpart now do a 24 month warranty because they're trying very hard to get over the bad rep. Your dealer should have told you that.

stevo88, always wondered about slotted / drilled discs. Given the RR ,even the P38, was a high-end vehicle why would they not have been factory fitted if any good or is it mostly cosmetic? totally agree about EBC though. i will never again use anything else.

rasheed said:

Britpart now do a 24 month warranty because they're trying very hard to get over the bad rep. Your dealer should have told you that.

stevo88, always wondered about slotted / drilled discs. Given the RR ,even the P38, was a high-end vehicle why would they not have been factory fitted if any good or is it mostly cosmetic? totally agree about EBC though. i will never again use anything else.

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i think they mostly didn't fit them as standard due to the brake squeal you get from them under light braking, sounds almost like the pads are worn to the backing. but under heavy braking they work just so well, its unbelievable the differance between a standard disc an drilled n slotted ones, altho i've never tried a land rover on them, only bin in a focus WRC and then a focus road car, or me mates old fiesta with standard discs then again with drilled n slotted ones

Aye but I presume you put new pads on your mates old Fiesta with the new discs? Wouldn't this give the better stopping power rather than the discs themselves (unless you were maybe doing tackdays?). And you can't really compare a Focus WRC with a Focus road car

well me mate had EBC green stuff pads in his calipers to begin with, then just swapped the discs, an got a new set of green stuff pads, so it kinda was only the discs that got changed, as i can't see the green stuff pads differing from box to box?

I ordered some mintex padsand a brake fixing kit for the 72 from padwanks and when they came the mintex pads were there but the bolts and split pins and clips were britpart :doh:

Are britpart capable of making bolts and split pins safely?

fett said:

I ordered some mintex padsand a brake fixing kit for the 72 from padwanks and when they came the mintex pads were there but the bolts and split pins and clips were britpart :doh:

Are britpart capable of making bolts and split pins safely?

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pass next question!!!! I never trust anything with sh1tpart on the box, not even a plain flat washer even!!!!

I will re-use my old bolts!

may be a good idea that

Likewise. I got two bolts sent with this lot in total. That was for two sets of discs and pads!

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well me mate had EBC green stuff pads in his calipers to begin with, then just swapped the discs, an got a new set of green stuff pads, so it kinda was only the discs that got changed, as i can't see the green stuff pads differing from box to box?

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Ok, I hear what you're saying but I still find it hard to believe that discs alone can make that much difference unless you're either using them at track days or driving like a loonie on the road. They'd have to be getting pretty bloody hot for the discs to have to dissipate the heat through the holes and the grooves to have to be knocking the glaze off the pads (which you wouldn't be getting anyway with EBC Green Stuff pads?).
There was a previous thread on this very subject some time ago. I'm sure someone with more racing knowledge than me said that racers had stopped using grooved discs because they caused stress fractures. Can;t remember if anything was said about the holes. Knowing my memory, it'll be the other way around

Racing guys are still using drilled discs...........just a bastard coz the crack.

Derek Ward said:

Ok, I hear what you're saying but I still find it hard to believe that discs alone can make that much difference unless you're either using them at track days or driving like a loonie on the road. They'd have to be getting pretty bloody hot for the discs to have to dissipate the heat through the holes and the grooves to have to be knocking the glaze off the pads (which you wouldn't be getting anyway with EBC Green Stuff pads?).
There was a previous thread on this very subject some time ago. I'm sure someone with more racing knowledge than me said that racers had stopped using grooved discs because they caused stress fractures. Can;t remember if anything was said about the holes. Knowing my memory, it'll be the other way around

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errrmmmm, am not too sure myself either tbh, i just know it felt like the brakes were a lot better with the drilled n grooved discs, maybe there just marketed for Land Rovers as super performance (which is a given with them, but for different driving situations) yet there more of an oooo look at my shiny discs on me range rover show off item as they may well have just the same sort of effect as solid or vented discs in slow speed situations?

Well just working it out logically in my head (no coughing please!) the only reason for holes would be to help cooling whilst unfortunately reducing surface area for friction. in cases of extreme use where high heat would lead to glazing on the pads and brake fade, the improved cooling would be more important than the loss of friction area. the choice between holes and slots and the pattern of these would then just be about finessing the compromise i reckon. but in most cases where it never gets that hot all you'd achieve is the cosmetics and actually less braking. like slicks in the dry and grooves in the wet on race tires. why don't people use rain tires in the dry? because less contact between rubber and road means less grip. at least that's what i think though i'll probably find i've got it all wrong!

the groves and holes are to let the gases out which normally cause the glaze.