50,000km Service

[JimX]

Ben, after using the RB74's for a few more days I like them even more. Now that the pads are truly run-in, the cold stopping power is awesome. I don't know what pads I had in there before, but I suspect they were just plain Nissan factory pads. I now just have to touch the brake pedal and the car will start to pull up quick. And they only get better from there when hot.

It's hard to compare different pads between different cars, but I believe they are better than the Bendix Ultimates that I had in my Commodore. I can already tell that they have less dust than the Ultimates. My Ultimates would dust up after only 100km or so of driving and I've done around 200 so far on the RB74's with no visible dust on the wheel yet.

The only thing I can't evaluate yet is the amount of disc wear they create. I think that DBA's 4000 series discs use a harder steel than normal so either way my disc wear should be acceptable when I upgrade.

[hippy]

u can get the mechanic to test the brake fluid .. theres this device they put in and it tells how good it is ...

[JimX]

Test the brake fluid? Surely you can just look at the colour. Or do you mean test the seals for leaks etc?

[rb25]

As hippy said, theres a proper digital tester. My breaks were a little dodgy and the fluid looked fine on visual inspection but when the guy tested it with the digital thingo we learned it was totall f**ked.

[red900ss]

Test it? Why bloody bother...just replace the stuff. :uh-huh:

[hippy]

yeah its digital .. he just puts it in your fluid and it tells you how good it is ..