OEM/Original Porsche

[Kim-M]

Thanks for the replies

Can anyone give me some input wether I should go for OEM or Porsche parts when we are talking about brake pads and discs.

I can show you the total price difference here:

Porsche
4 pads £190,02
4 discs £361,14
Total £551,16

OEM
4 pads £99,9
4 discs £155
Total £254,9

A difference of £296,26 in dollars it is $473,31.

Thats alot of money, so I think I'm going to buy the OEM parts

Anyone knows about the brand of the OEM parts?

Best regards
Kim

[gschotland]

You can make a much more informed purchase decision if you know the Brand or Manufacturer of the "OEM" parts. Sometimes they're truly the same, other times really not even close. There's defintely money to be saved if you do a little research.

I know you want to buy your parts closer to home, and you should, but it might be worth checking out pelicanparts.com for quality ratings on various manufacturers' parts. They sell many types of brake pads of varying levels of quality from a number of different manufacturers. If you liked your presumably original brake pads, you may want to go with Textar brand pads, which I believe are the same pads Porsche re-boxes and sells as its own for a lot more money. There are many comparable aftermarket pads that are just as good or better for the same or less money.

With the brake discs you need to make sure get ones that have the centers and disc edges zinc coated or they will rust. Porsche discs have been coated. Zimmermann sells ones that have been zinc coated and ones that have not. Most discs have not. You can paint them but they will eventually rust.

[Kim-M]

gschotland:

Thanks for the anwser. The reason why I'm not buying from pelican parts is because I live in Denmark. So the cheapest thing for me is to buy within Europe.
It's to expensive to buy it from US, because of shipping, taxes and so on.

The OEM parts from design911 is Textar.

So I believe it is them im going to buy

Thanks for the help

[Kim-M]

I cant see anywhere if the discs are zink coated.
If they're not, is it then just a matter of sending them to a specialist? I'm going to get my calipers painted red as well.

Or is that just plain stupid and expensive?

Kim

[RandallNeighbour]

I've used Textar pads and they're good pads. You won't be disappointed in them for public road use, even hard driving. Now for track use, they may fade a bit.

The zinc coating is a nice thing to have to prevent hat rust on the discs, but not required by any means. Taking some high temp silver spray paint bought from the local auto parts shop and spraying the hats (tape off the rest of the disc) is a simple thing to do.

One more thing: be sure to buy some aftermarket stainless steel brake lines while you're doing all this brake work. They made my brake pedal far more responsive and stiff and it was very noticeable. It was the single best thing I have done to my braking system to upgrade it.

Oh yeah, I painted my rotors red and that's cool looking too!

[Kim-M]

Thanks RandallNeighbour

I'm going for the Teztar then. I'v been wondering about what the stainless steel brake lines does, I thought it was just for show. But thanks for sharing the info.
While I'm at it, I'm gonna buy those as well.

Didn't you mean you painted your calipers red?

I have everything for that, including the Porsche decals. So I'm ready to go

[RandallNeighbour]

Yes, I meant calipers, not rotors!

And if you want to do it and have the time, buying high-temp clear coat to shoot on top of the finished caliper after the porsche stickers have been put on makes the whole package last a lot longer.

I didn't do this and mine have been just fine though... right up until I had to rebuild one of my calipers and the clamps I used to press in the cylinders tore up the lettering on one of the calipers