Green Stuff Pads

[BackStreetRacecars 3]

I have had an old pair of green stuff pads sitting about for about a year and finally got round to fitting them to my car last week, After taking the car for her maiden voyage today the pedal has quite a bit of travel in at.... The brakes are all bled through and the drums and very well adjusted.... Could the pads be unserviceable now that they have been lying around? Maybe from moisture ingress? anyone have this before at all?

[mrswampy 0]

maybe down to the fact that in my experiance greenstuff are worse than standered pads

 

if you want upratedpads go for mintex 1144s or my favorite pagid rs4 -2 blue

they aint cheap but they are very fine pads

[Batfink 201]

green stuff are the worst pad i have tried. Gave a real s*ite pedal feel and seemed disappointing in their ability to stop the car too.

[bensonmi 4 2 Cars]

greenstuff are pants,standard are way better imo

[Miles 331 1 Cars]

People say std but how many people use OE Peugeot pads, not Bendix or Textar?

Green stuff dare I say it are OK for a std road pad and nothing else but don't ecxpect anything great from them although the spec seems to change all the time, Pedla travel has nothing to do with the pad's, It's the Calliper's, Slave Cylinder's and master cylinder, Use only a Bendix one as the pattern ones are normally c**p

[welshpug 1,678]

I fitted Peugeot o.e pads to my ZX recently (rear) they're marked as Textar, work very well too, Far better than APEC fronts

 

 

oddly my only experience of Greenstuff in 1.9 calipers was pretty favourable, but the box was very old, so maybe they have changed for the worse

[BackStreetRacecars 3]

I'm gonna change the fluid tomoro again. and maybe try and figure it out. The pads are at leat 4 years old and were on my 309 for about 6 months before the floor fell out it... so they are maybe just fcuked...

[Paul_13 212 1 Cars]

Dont do it! Greenstuff pads are w*nk

[BackStreetRacecars 3]

think i may just throw the lot away and put either the gti6 stuff I have jus got or the 266mm stuff i'm waiting for on it.... it should pass the mot with the stuff thats on it.... fingers crossed!!

[philfingers 5]

you say the pads were on your 309? Are the discs from the same 309 also? If not if you're mising used pads with used discs they're going to take a little while to bed in, hence the long pedal. I had Green Stuff all around back in 2002 on my old 309 road rally car and they were fine.

As a good budget uprated pad I find the Pagid Fast Road ones hard to beat.

I had some Textar one sin once from GSF or Eurocar Parts and they were aweful, faded not even working them hard!

 

Phil

[C_W 3 1 Cars]

The only problem with Greenstuff pads is the copper content IMO, I really liked the early greenstuff pads but prob around 2002 they started putting copper in which meant bad vibration when they got too hot.

 

I'd recommend Yellowstuff, under £40 from larkspeed.com last time I bought some.

[Jrod 7]

I found with greens they needed to get seriously hot once,then after that pretty good, Prefer Red's though. Currently using 1144's and they seem ok.