AP rear pads/discs choices - ?

[Pip1968]

Stop skim reading my rambling and boring posts..... I am refering to rear discs not fronts.

I assume that you have either made a typo Bounce or you are talking about fronts at 28mm when new. Thank you for further reassurance CraigMillwardCroft (is that triple barrel super posh/rich - ?).

Are most of those with APs on the rear running with RS29s then. I assume standard OEM pads on the rear will be fine too.

Pip

Apologies Bounce I am trying to multi task and have skim read myself - rear 20mm front 28mm when new - noted

[Neil M]

RS. 29's all round, even on OEM brakes they make a big difference.

[shimmy]

Originally Posted by Bounce

Oem minimum rear disc thickness is 18.4 mm Pip.I only know this because I renewed my discs and pads yesterday and the minimum thickness is etched on them

Originally Posted by Bounce

Yes mate and the fronts 28mm

Originally Posted by Pip1968

Stop skim reading my rambling and boring posts..... I am refering to rear discs not fronts.

I assume that you have either made a typo Bounce or you are talking about fronts at 28mm when new. Thank you for further reassurance CraigMillwardCroft (is that triple barrel super posh/rich - ?).

Are most of those with APs on the rear running with RS29s then. I assume standard OEM pads on the rear will be fine too.

Pip

Apologies Bounce I am trying to multi task and have skim read myself - rear 20mm front 28mm when new - noted

This thread was always dooooooomed

[Bounce]

Originally Posted by Pip1968

Stop skim reading my rambling and boring posts..... I am refering to rear discs not fronts.

I assume that you have either made a typo Bounce or you are talking about fronts at 28mm when new. Thank you for further reassurance CraigMillwardCroft (is that triple barrel super posh/rich - ?).

Are most of those with APs on the rear running with RS29s then. I assume standard OEM pads on the rear will be fine too.

Pip

Apologies Bounce I am trying to multi task and have skim read myself - rear 20mm front 28mm when new - noted

Apology accepted,as you can now see I was answering Jim's post and not yours.

[shimmy]

Originally Posted by Bounce

Apology accepted,as you can now see I was answering Jim's post and not yours.

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[Bounce]

Originally Posted by shimmy

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[Kev Ush]

Originally Posted by Pip1968

Following someone's post regarding the pins seizing in their caliper I checked my pins. Actually, as she has been holed up in the garage for the last few months I decided to put the rears into Lepsons for a refurbish - £100 a pop each!!. Anyway the pins were fine with a little corrosion around the calpier's recess of the 6mm hex bolt in the form of white powedery residue.

I don't have AP's on my M3 but I imagine the corrosion is galvanic reaction caused by dissimilar metals with the caliper being aluminium and the pins being steel??

I use this stuff on my Elise (and anything else that has 2 dissimalar metal touching each other) anywhere I have anything bolting to the aluminium chassis. http://www.eliseparts.com/products/show/60/408/duralac/ it seems to have stopped my chassis from going all white and powdery and its cheap. Lasts ages to...I'm still on my first tin.

Kev.

[billyboysm3]

Gareth will know. Personally I would run Rear OEM discs with RS29 as Im sure the AP rear discs do not have any advantage over OEM just look nicer.

[JBird]

Hi,

Also looking into a set of APs. Does anybody know the min thickness for front OEM discs? New is 28mm. There is a bloke on PH selling set of AP front calipers , with OEM discs skimmed to 25mm. Wondering if there is really much life left in these???

if buying a completly new AP kit, and planning on running RS29s for track, (maybe keeping the DS2500 for road) are the front discs that come in the AP BBK considered any good, or do I need to expect to shell out for PF discs a short time later?

cheers!

[northernjim]

Originally Posted by JBird

Hi,

Also looking into a set of APs. Does anybody know the min thickness for front OEM discs? New is 28mm. There is a bloke on PH selling set of AP front calipers , with OEM discs skimmed to 25mm. Wondering if there is really much life left in these???

if buying a completly new AP kit, and planning on running RS29s for track, (maybe keeping the DS2500 for road) are the front discs that come in the AP BBK considered any good, or do I need to expect to shell out for PF discs a short time later?

cheers!

3mm taken from a 28mm disc sounds too much IMO



AP discs are fine in the proper kit, you should get a few sets of pads out of them