NA 1.6 replacement front brake pads

nomis · Postby **nomis** » Thu Aug 18, 2016 5:50 pm

I need to put new front brake pad on my daily. I want the cheapest possible!
Anyone know where to find such a thing?

smy0003 · Postby **smy0003** » Thu Aug 18, 2016 6:18 pm

You can try eBay.
Buy some QFM HPX pads. They'll cost you $79 and actually work.

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nomis · Postby **nomis** » Thu Aug 18, 2016 7:05 pm

smy0003 wrote:You can try eBay.
Buy some QFM HPX pads. They'll cost you $79 and actually work.

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Cheapest front set I can find on ebay are ~$50
I may also get a disc+pad combo if anyone knows of any cheap deals.

smy0003 · Postby **smy0003** » Thu Aug 18, 2016 7:15 pm

nomis wrote:
smy0003 wrote:You can try eBay.
Buy some QFM HPX pads. They'll cost you $79 and actually work.

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Cheapest front set I can find on ebay are ~$50

All the more reason to go with the brand name stuff. An extra $30 well spent.

hks_kansei · Postby **hks_kansei** » Thu Aug 18, 2016 8:27 pm

I've used cheap pads before.

$20 an axle for "axxis" brand.

Daily use they were fine, no issues at all and lasted me maybe 4 years.

For hard driving they were average, one good stop would cook them.

manga_blue · Postby **manga_blue** » Thu Aug 18, 2016 9:18 pm

I've seen new ultra cheap pads crumble to dust after 2 or 3 hard stops in a row. They were incapable of surviving one steep descent. QFM HPX are really really good. Economise elsewhere, not on brake pads.

MattR · Postby **MattR** » Fri Aug 19, 2016 5:03 pm

Dunlop Volley on a stick nailed to the door?????

That would be pretty cheap, and stop better than a lot of the noname brand stuff around

nomis · Postby **nomis** » Wed Aug 24, 2016 10:08 am

so the front pads I ordered I cant get them to fit. the outside one fits but the inside pad hits the caliper mounting bracket
here is pics of the pads that i am replacing and the new ones. quite a size difference.

did they send me the wrong ones ? is there a size difference between 1.6 and 1.8 pads ?

smy0003 · Postby **smy0003** » Wed Aug 24, 2016 10:24 am

DB1282 seems to match a Bendix part no. for the NA8 front.
Also, they certainly look like NA8 pads.
See Na6 pad:
http://www.goham-ind.com/hawk-brake-pads-mazda-miata-1-6-front/
And Na8 pad:
http://www.goham-ind.com/hawk-brake-pads-mazda-miata-1-8-front/

sailaholic · Postby **sailaholic** » Wed Aug 24, 2016 11:35 am

If the don't match what came out then they are wrong.

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Magpie · Postby **Magpie** » Wed Aug 24, 2016 11:55 am

^^^^^

hks_kansei · Postby **hks_kansei** » Wed Aug 24, 2016 12:44 pm

It looks like you have been sent (or accidenaly ordered) pads for an NA8/NB8A

NA8 and NB8A were the only models to have shared brakes, the rest of the mx5s all had different parts each.