brakes question?

[gazareth]

your brakes are only as good as the tyre it has to stop turning.

[Screech16v]

Well not really, repeated heavy use of brakes sh!t tyres or not can still leave you with no brakes.

[gazareth]

ah you mean if they fade. I just meant if you hit your brakes in an emergency and they lock up and car skids onwards. all depends what the cars going to be used for.

[Screech16v]

You should have said 

[gazareth]

yeah i suppose so but i thought you would have figured it out.  but to get fade during normal driving you would really need to be doing something sinister

[Len]

You dont lock up with ABS!

[mark-mk3gti]

You dont lock up with ABS!

[hobbiniho]

^^ easiet way is to check what calipers you have if you have LUCAS or GIRLING calipers then you have 280mm brakes and if you have ATE calipers you have 288mm brakes

Cheers for that, confuses the issue more for me, and in theory disreputes the quote i copied, they were Lucas calipers, but when I measured they were 288 but as I said that's going over the centre of the disc, I'm gonna get some vernier calipers on em so I'm def sure when I buy em..

if its lucas calipers they are definately 280mm and you have just said  that when you measured them you had the tape bent over  the disc so it will read bigger than that the disk actually is

[mark-mk3gti]

^^ easiet way is to check what calipers you have if you have LUCAS or GIRLING calipers then you have 280mm brakes and if you have ATE calipers you have 288mm brakes

Cheers for that, confuses the issue more for me, and in theory disreputes the quote i copied, they were Lucas calipers, but when I measured they were 288 but as I said that's going over the centre of the disc, I'm gonna get some vernier calipers on em so I'm def sure when I buy em..

if its lucas calipers they are definately 280mm and you have just said  that when you measured them you had the tape bent over  the disc so it will read bigger than that the disk actually is

I agree, but it was in the high 290s and it only bowed a small amount so basically, im gonna get some vernier calipers on em, cos if I go by your method they are 280 and if I go off the fact its a 96'on and the abs ecu location in the engine bay they are 288, so wheel off again at weekend..

thanks all

[tweed]

Just take a pic and show us.

288mm have a thing metal pad spring.
280mm has nothing.

Easy to tell difference just by looking at them