Smelly Brakes...

[Jimlad]

ok.. the other day there I went for a drive around the country roads and was seriously braking hard etc at all corners.

Gave my brakes a right good hammering.

Then after I had calmed down a bit I smelt something smelly. Only thing I could think of was brakes as clutch is fine etc.

Is it possible the brakes were smelling because I was killing them ? What would be smelling exactly? The pads??

If your brakes smell from killing them is that bad??...

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[Ian_M]

what brakes have you got in there at the moment sonds like there over heating and getting very hot

might be worth upgrading to some better pads and disks

[Jimlad]

stock discs and pads... I had some serious brake fading going on also.

A bit brake happy am I then ?

[Bibbs]

yeah .. get some good pads fella ..

[Ian_M]

sounds like it get some decent disks and ferdo ds2000 or mintex 1144s if you drive hard and might be worth change the brake fulid to some thing like dot5

[Jimlad]

the abuse my poor car takes.... lol.

[Ian_M]

order up some nice ap 4 pots shuold set you back a few quid but worth every penny :D

[Jimlad]

I was gonna get some Supra brakes etc slapped on my car, but the garage said I might find it quite hard finding them and in the end could cost me as much as a big brake conversion would!

[BLOODUK]

Personally i think jimlad drove over a cow pat , and the heat from the breaks made the smell <_<

[Bibbs]

MTTE had some 4 pot outlaw ones .. but at £800 they were out my price range ..

[Jimlad]

would it just be a case of slapping them on and get some better discs/pads ?

[Jimlad]

2K for a pheonix power front brake kit.... quite expensive... maybe in a few months or so.

[RichB]

Running the amount of power you do over stock, it would make sense to upgrade the brakes, even if just to fast road pads and disks.

Lots of discussion as to which are best...