Hi,

Put some GreenStuff pads on the front brakes today after finding out that my N/S/F pads were 90% worn, but strangely the O/S/F pads were basically 20ish% worn. Seemed odd, but I've not changed them since owning the car so I don't really have an answer for that.

Anyway, my question to anyone that has owned/currently owns GreenStuff pads for a T-Jet, is it alright if they get very hot? And by very hot I mean, doing less than a mile (Around the block a few times) doing gentle breaking (With the odd few hard brakes). I could feel the heat through the alloys, certainly wouldn't want to touch the brakes. In comparison, the rear brakes were not even warm. Do the GreenStuff pads just run hot? I can't find an answer online.

Could this just be me worrying over nothing? I realise that heated brakes (should) perform better, but this was some serious heat over not much work.

Cheers,
Will

They shouldn't get too got over very little work, best thing to do is take it around the block and try not press the brakes at all, use engine braking to slow you down and see if they get hot then. You may have brake binding, which basically means the pads are constantly touching the discs. If you do have this then you will need to take pads back off and make sure the pistons are fully winded back.

I got grooved discs with greenstuff. They do get quite warm, but as above, it might be worth checking they're not binding, and that the brake piston is fully compressed when the pedal is off.