stearing judder

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drue1
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stearing judder

Post by drue1 » Tue Jun 07, 2005 7:50 pm

when breaking the stearing judders abit could this be warpped discs if so where is the best place for new discs and can i upgrage them for bigger discs cheers
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pol
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Post by pol » Tue Jun 07, 2005 10:01 pm

I have judder which is caused by badly scored discs which have caused the pads and disks to wear unevenly.

pol

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SanPhire
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Post by SanPhire » Fri Jun 10, 2005 9:03 am

Any handy motor factor will have a stock of front discs for the 400s. <<http://www.needforspeed.co.uk/pages/sbv ... le=VL44001>>

note: Black Diamond, advertise on this site as making solid front discs - this is a tragic lie - they may make the vented discs though.

If you're already running on vented discs at the front then brembo, EBC, all the big names do groved/cross drilled discs etc. The choice is a bit more limited for the solid discs, but can still be found.

As for getting bigger discs, I've not found anyone who can help - does anyone else know about this?

I think getting in some EBC (black - they don't do the green-stuff pads) or Black Diamond Predator (on mine) pads is all these cars need for a bit more bite.
Greta - 1994 2.0 480 GT
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Post by rpruen » Sat Jun 11, 2005 8:32 pm

I can confirm that the pads make all the diff. I'm using carbon pads, and apart from getting through 2 disks for each pad change it all works very well.

Richard
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Now have 765 GLE 2.8 V6

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