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(Message started by: Roger_Ashford on Jun 22^nd, 2005, 4:39pm)

Title: Caveat regarding front brake pads
Post by Roger_Ashford on Jun 22^nd, 2005, 4:39pm

I changed the front disks & pads on my 98 Scorpio Ultima Cosworth the other day. The description given on this site for the job was spot on, but a word of warning: When I came to offer up the new pads to the caliper, they didn't fit. I checked them against the old pads and found that the new pads were a different size and the backing plates were a different shape.

I had been quite precise in specifying what I wanted when I bought them from the local MegaSpares, so I was a little miffed when I went back and asked them to give me the correct ones. The guy showed me the catalogue, and sure enough the ones he had sold me were for my model: we matched the old ones up to the 2.3 model, so either the catalogue was wrong or they had run out of the correct calipers when my car was assembled.

As you have to cut off the brake pad wear indicator lead when fitting the pads, it's a good idea to check them against your old ones first!

Title: Re: Caveat regarding front brake pads
Post by Baz on Jun 22^nd, 2005, 6:20pm

I have had this a few times. Most after market manufacturers get them wrong and the only ones I have found that get it exactly right is Unipart. Even Ford supplied me two wrong sets of pads before I gave up and went to the local motor factors!

Baz

Title: Re: Caveat regarding front brake pads
Post by Boblavens on Jun 22^nd, 2005, 8:36pm

Thats interesting about the wear indicators, cos they never made any of thes new Scorps with them did they?
And yet all the suppliers give you the option of with or without.
Cheaper without and thats what I bought last time.

Bob

Title: Re: Caveat regarding front brake pads
Post by scorpio_man on Jun 22^nd, 2005, 9:14pm

hi there

front pads on the 2.3 (maybe the 2.0) are the same as the '97-'00 mondeo.

hth

Title: Re: Caveat regarding front brake pads
Post by Paul_Boulden on Jun 22^nd, 2005, 9:55pm

I too have had the wrong pads supplied, by FMD & local factors, for my 2.9 12v. It has always been the fronts they get wrong so I keep an old front pad to take with me when I need new ones. They can get it wrong with or without wear indicators !

Paul Boulden

Title: Re: Caveat regarding front brake pads
Post by mr._floppy on Jun 27^th, 2005, 11:51am

While I'm a fan of the Scorps Gizmos and innovations the Dashboard Brake Pad wear indicators ( which I think were fitted to the Granada range ) are thankfully not present on the Scorpio. A bit like headlamp washers, these extras are just for the lazy or dopey. With alloys fitted it only takes a second to check the calipers and see the pad wear for yourself.

Title: Re: Caveat regarding front brake pads
Post by bertie on Jun 28^th, 2005, 12:47pm

on 06/27/05 at 11:51:50, mr._floppy wrote:

the Dashboard Brake Pad wear indicators A bit like headlamp washers, these extras are just for the lazy or dopey. .

I take it you have a poverty model and lack these 'gismos'

Title: Re: Caveat regarding front brake pads
Post by Boblavens on Jun 30^th, 2005, 6:47pm

With the streamlined shape of the Scorp headlights I find that they are hardly ever dirty ebven on mucky days.
Yet to try a bit of rallying, my girlfriend probably won't speak to me for a week if I did.

Bob