Are there wear sensors on the Cupra R brakes?

[revere]

Reason I'm asking is I bought some cheap pads from Unipart that are for my Cupra R (Only £23.50) as I'm pretty sure they're gonna say they need changed when I put the car through it's service tomorrow. Inside the box are four pads, 3 plain pads and one with a wire coming out of it which I'm told is a wear sensor.

I thought I was only buying 2 pads not 4 so I'm a little stumped. He also told me the pads are made by Mintex even thought they're unipart branded.

 

[turbin]

front left side on mine.

 

[rsmith]

There are 4 pads in total up front, 2 for each side with the break wear sensor to the front passenger side.
For £23 if there crap you can always replace them, its a very simple job on the brembo callipers.
I bought pads recently made by a company called Icer, who the fec I thought, I am very very impressed thus far with them after just coming from a set of Ferrodo 2500s and for only €43 it makes me wonder some times.

 

[revere]

Cheers for the knowledge mate. I was looking at the EBC but alot of people have said they're horrendous.

 

[ChrisGTL]

I bought pads recently made by a company called Icer, who the fec I thought, I am very very impressed thus far with them after just coming from a set of Ferrodo 2500s and for only €43 it makes me wonder some times.

Anymore info on these ICER pads? I've had a look on the net for a supplier but can't find one.....

 

[andycupra]

Do they have wear sensors.. this depends on the make. Many do, but ferrodo DS pads dont.

Why 4 pads? - as said, you need 2 pads per disk. (one each side of the disk) and there are two disks, (one each side of the car) Thus 4 pads.

They sound very very cheap so im hope they are ok...

And yes they will likely say they need replacing for a couple of reasons:
1. the pads on the brembos when new are only about half the thickness of some normal type pads so many garages say they dont have much left on them when only half worn.
2. most (but not all) garages will look for work when doing a service.. same with cheap MOTs,

Id say take a look at the pads yourself before the service so you know exactly how much wear you have left. (bear in mind the inside pad often wears a little quicker than the outer pad).
Its easy to change the pads on the brembos, however from your surprise at having 4 pads i suspect you are not someone who does their own pads?

 

[revere]

Do they have wear sensors.. this depends on the make. Many do, but ferrodo DS pads dont.

Why 4 pads? - as said, you need 2 pads per disk. (one each side of the disk) and there are two disks, (one each side of the car) Thus 4 pads.

They sound very very cheap so im hope they are ok...

And yes they will likely say they need replacing for a couple of reasons:
1. the pads on the brembos when new are only about half the thickness of some normal type pads so many garages say they dont have much left on them when only half worn.
2. most (but not all) garages will look for work when doing a service.. same with cheap MOTs,

Id say take a look at the pads yourself before the service so you know exactly how much wear you have left. (bear in mind the inside pad often wears a little quicker than the outer pad).
Its easy to change the pads on the brembos, however from your surprise at having 4 pads i suspect you are not someone who does their own pads?

No I'm not, I'm a petrol head through and through but I consider myself novice/intermediate when it comes to my car but more novice. I'd love to learn more which is why I come on here a lot for tips/advice and info as you chaps seem to know your stuff. What I really want to do is get a cheap car and teach myself how to do stuff on it so I can do jobs on my car or other ones in the future.

 

[andycupra]

there is an excellent guide on here for changing pads, as well as disks on the LCR:
one thing id say to anyone whos new to doing work on a car, take time and make sure to secure the car on axel stands. The stock jack is not good enough for working on a car.

If you have a go at it, use this guide and start early, then if you did encounter an issue you can come on here for help or go get whatever you need. The front brakes (brembos) are surprisingly easy to do.

guide:
http://seatcupra.net/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=36&Itemid=6

found in the main seatcupra site, info base, fitting guides.

 

[revere]

there is an excellent guide on here for changing pads, as well as disks on the LCR:
one thing id say to anyone whos new to doing work on a car, take time and make sure to secure the car on axel stands. The stock jack is not good enough for working on a car.

If you have a go at it, use this guide and start early, then if you did encounter an issue you can come on here for help or go get whatever you need. The front brakes (brembos) are surprisingly easy to do.

guide:
http://seatcupra.net/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=36&Itemid=6

found in the main seatcupra site, info base, fitting guides.

Doesn't look to bad actually ! Cheers mate.

 

[Dyscontinued]

So easy they took me 4 hours.

Easy if they come out and go in, mine didn't without a hell of a lot of work.

 

[rsmith]

the first time I changed my pads they took minutes.

but the other week it took me two days, lol.
they were wedged in there tight!!! and it wasn't because of the pistons, they were wedged top and bottom.

Realistically without all the BS, give yourself 1.5hrs to do the job, thats by the time you get your tools together, jack up the car remove the wheel/pads and then do all the same in reverse.

If it takes longer, so what, as long as its right and you learned something.

http://www.icerbrakes.com.au/productrange.htm

 

[Dyscontinued]

the first time I changed my pads they took minutes.

but the other week it took me two days, lol.
they were wedged in there tight!!! and it wasn't because of the pistons, they were wedged top and bottom.

That was the problem I had exactly.


The calipers had like an uneven surface so the pads didn't slide in and out.

 

[drty--den]

Holy thread revival batman! Sorry about digging this up but the garage has just said they can't do my pads because of corrosion underneath the shims pushing the shim up and preventing the pads. They've said i've to send them off but I don't have the money for that after the price of the discs and pads, so was that a similar problem to the above posters and if so how did you rectify it?

 

[747_727]

Holy thread revival batman! Sorry about digging this up but the garage has just said they can't do my pads because of corrosion underneath the shims pushing the shim up and preventing the pads. They've said i've to send them off but I don't have the money for that after the price of the discs and pads, so was that a similar problem to the above posters and if so how did you rectify it?

I had this on my old mk4 ibiza cupra. I bought new shim plates but I couldn't get the screws out so I ground the edges of the pads down using a grinding wheel until they fitted in the calipers ok and greased the edges up well with copper grease and they were fine afterwards.

 

[drty--den]

Do you remember where you got the new shims from as my plan is to remove the shim or in the likely event I can't get the screw out either, im gonna try and lift and bend the shim and Chislehurst the corrosion off underneath. In any case that shims ruined. Cheers for the advice mate

 

[747_727]

The ibiza has ap calipers not brembo's so I dont tnink the shims will be the same. I got them from a website that mainly sells parts for mgtf's as they use the same calipers on the vvc mgtf's. http://www.mikesatur.com/acatalog/Front_AP.html

 

[drty--den]

I see. I'll do some digging. Nice one anyway