Hello, thank you for the reply. Yeah I'm aware that it may take a few hundred miles too fully bed in.

I would but I have already purchased these mintex pads and have heard nothing but good news about them.

I mean, they are alright but just wanted something with more bite. I have recently had my car powerbled at Ford so I k ow there is no air in the lines and the fluid is clean. I think I will just stick with the pagid ones if they are better. Anyway, thank you for all of the replies.

So it would be better too stick with the pagid pads? If that's the case then I will send the mintex pads back. Just wanted to know if you can reuse discs as there is a mixed opinion about it.

I think I will just stick with what is already on then. I'm not saying they are awful it's just I have been in cars with sharper pads. There is no play in the pedal and the brakes engage very well it's just I want a bit more from the pads but not too worry. At the end of the day it's only a fiesta.

'my beloved Ferodo pads were outlawed'

DS11's? I used to use them in rally cars.

Not DS11's, not really suitable for Caterhams, you would never get them hot enough on the road. The ones I had were the bottom of the Competition material scale and worked form cold but resisted fading when hot, cannot remember what they were called. Went off sale when the ECE R90 regs retty much wiped out the market for them. Ferodo's alternative was a pad called the DS Competition which despite its name complied with ECE R90, when I spoke to Ferodo they told me I would be unhappy with it since it was not a patch on the ones I had been using, that is why I tried the Mintex m1144. As I said above the Mintex was not good but shortly after Ferod brought out a pad called the DS2500 which complied with ECE R90 and was more or less the replacement for my previous Ferodo's. Way better than the M1144's (at least I got a firm pedal for starters) but because of the gap between the pads I cannot say conclusively if they matched the earlier Ferodo's.

When the barking system got to turned 25 years old I took the decision to carry out a full brake refurb including the calipers and eventually took the decision to move into the 21st century and fit 4 pot calipers with bigger discs on the front. The rear brakes were fine, the Sierra calipers were well up to the job and had led a very easy life. Only one piston so a doddle to refurb. Just new EBC Ultimax pads and they were sorted.

The new calipers on the fronts use Volvo pads which were about twice the area of the original Triumph ones. The calipers were manufactured with pistons that gave the same area as the others thus no new master cylinder required. Fitted them with EBC Ultimax pads just to see how they worked before deciding if I needed higher spec pads. 5 years on the brakes have been brilliant, no need to spend on better spec pads, much better than the standard calipers and expensive pads. Little dust as well. The disc/caliper combination will just fit under my 13" track wheels unlike many aftermarket mods.

The Calipers are the ones the company specs as an upgrade for track day/race Civic Type R's thus plenty good enough for a Caterham weighing about 600 kg's.