Have just had my coop a week - and am loving it by the way
- thanks to Mad_hammer for selling me an awsome car for really a very small amount of money. In the words of my friend and forum member olly 'it pulls like a f**kin train'
However...... and it hurts me to say this, I have to say though my old 1.8 astra does beat it in one respect.....brakes
- a brave and perhaps stupid thing to say in this company. hehe.
Let me explain thou - I'm sure this is due to the fact that the pads, fluid and maybe discs need changing. At the moment its a bit too weavy under heavy braking (know this is to be expected a bit), and really hard braking feels like a squigy scary nothing, getting noises from the rears under braking and pulling away as well - just don't feel quite right.
First time I came up behind something a little bit quick on the motorway I scared myself a bit
- was used to a much lighter brake pedal in the astra as well - didn't improve things...
This is a quick car..... I've been used to driving my astra fast and EVERTHING is just quicker in this and the brakes just arn't as good (BTW can't believe how small the rear discs are on the coop - though I guess theres not much weight back there) Havn't done that much track driving - but enough to know that to be quick round the twistys stopping is almost as important as going - but you all know that... also wana be safe ya know
Anyway... have read threads on here recommending several pads including red dot and Pagid Yellow's. Have found these:
http://www.europerformance.co.uk/pages/products/product_info.mhtml?id=572446Has anyone had any experience with these on a coop? Seem to have got good reviews and are half the price of the yellows.
Any other suggestions? - discs too if anyone has any ideas - although I'm gonna just try the pads first and see what its like.
sorry for the over sized post (could have been 'any pad reccomendations guys?' couldn't it?) I should go to bed lol.
thanks for any replys guys