replacing brakes all round

[scouse1]

hi all, how easy would it be to replace the discs and pads all round and roughly how long would it take, done pads b4 but not a cally, so need some sort of idea wats involved, and would it be a good idea to stick with stock discs/pads or upgrade to better, were is best place to get the stuff from too?
or can i just go to crapfit/national places like that and get them to do it?


TIA


Rob.

[EY]

With a trusty Haynes manual you should be able to do it in a day, it'll involve lots of wd40 on the rusty bits, but once the wheels are of it's really only a couple of bolts and clips. It's definatley worth attacking it yourself as a garage will charge you 2/3 hours labour and rip you off on the parts. I have found the standard vx discs and pads to be fine for road use, but if you want more you could use some greenstuff pads, they take a while to warm up but when they do they are improvement over standard.

[EY]

Think it works out about £200 for discs and pads all round from vx.

[dicky]

Look at <a href="http://www.autovaux.co.uk" target="_blank">www.autovaux.co.uk</a> for parts, around £100 for the lot i think.


You have to be carefull of the disc retaining screws as these can be a bugger to undew.

Apart from that a simple job.

[sev]

i got quoted £140 for discs and pads all round from vx, with trade club on parts.

My mate is gonna homer it and said £90 with fitting greenstuff pads, think I'll go for that [img]/tongue.gif[/img]

[slugger_2003]

It would only do you good to upgrade the brakes...
If you are on a 4 stud hub set-up the gof vr6 discs and calipers are sometimes used on the calibra as an upgrade so I am told? (280mm i think)

[scouse1]

i have got an old receipt from one of last owners, he/she had some 288mm fitted so would these be the right size or would they b an upgrade?

[EY]

They were 288mm after the 1995 face lift me thinks.[img]/smile.gif[/img]

[scouse1]

just found out that the brakes are from courtenaysports and they are 288mm which are for the V6 Vectra, so looks like i might be ringing round a few scrappies to see if they got any in stock or i could go back to the 256mm and calipers for mine or stick with wati got.