Strewth, browsing for the price of discs and pads has made me come over all faint. The Black Diamonds you mentioned seem a steal compared to the price of some makes, such as Tarox.
I may need to do much more reading as half of these names are new to me. Coming from bikes my list is/was EBC...
Hi T9 et al.
I will be going for stainless steel lines, it is what I do with my bikes (motor not mountain :lol:) as a no-quibble thing to do. Admittedly this is the first time I will be doing the brake lines on a car. But I do like the car.
I will look into the costs of the discs & pads...
Update.
New (to me) engine has now done 1000 miles and have just had it serviced. No nasties apart from a bit of corrosion underneath on exhaust and brake lines.
So, I am now looking at costs of replacing breake lines with HEL / Goodridge lines and maybe upgrading discs.
I feel I am at the...
Thanks T9 for the response.
I now have a feeling that the previous owner may has suspected problems and so I expect I wouldn't be very civil. The purchase was a speculative bid on ebay, and nobody else bid so I was sort of stuck with it. Also the owner was relocating with job to the States...
Hi everyone,
I am the new owner of a 2001 9-5 2.3 SE. Last week that would have included "proud" as well. It seems I have a car that has succumbed to the "sludge" issue that I have since read so much about. The car pinged me and lost mucho power despite me topping it up with synthetic oil...