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Offline DanoGTI

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Re: are your fast road pads street legal???? they might not be
« Reply #30 on: March 17, 2010, 08:57:40 pm »
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And Jonny, I'm not sure your insurance would cover you for a volcano, I'm pretty sure that comes under an 'act of God'.

What you'll be needing in THIS case is.......



Volcano Insurance  :happy2:


In all fairness, it would be VERY interesting to contact the your insurance company and ask what they think..... despite as in most people's cases, declaring all mods, would that hold up in terms of covering you?

Personally, I think not - you'd be notifying them that you have an illegal mod (for a specific use). The fact that they're ignorant to the details doesn't make it legal.

all imho, and moot really, as I don't run these pads.

Dan  :grin:
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Re: are your fast road pads street legal???? they might not be
« Reply #31 on: March 17, 2010, 09:32:02 pm »
 :indifferent: standard pads are £40 axle set  :notworthy:
If you are having bother with these pads on the road, ie over heating....you have other issues with the law!  :fighting:
« Last Edit: March 17, 2010, 09:33:46 pm by Truckie »
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Re: are your fast road pads street legal???? they might not be
« Reply #32 on: March 17, 2010, 09:44:19 pm »
Agree with truckie... I have completely standard brakes and yeah they're not best ever but do the job going to work and back and the odd blast... Track is a different matter but if I was doing that i'd just have a 2nd set :confused:

These threads always go this way because we like to put our own 'common sense' slant on the law, but it's the law and agree or not we gotta abide by it... :booty:
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Re: are your fast road pads street legal???? they might not be
« Reply #33 on: March 17, 2010, 09:49:11 pm »
Quote from: Truckie on March 17, 2010, 09:32:02 pm
:indifferent: standard pads are £40 axle set  :notworthy:
If you are having bother with these pads on the road, ie over heating....you have other issues with the law!  :fighting:

Without sounding like a pussy thats not a bad point.........

Lets just remind ourselves that the Reg90 is not an amount of numbers or a blanket specification, it is +/-15% of the standard OEM pads So if you're GT3 RS comes off the line in Stuttgart with thinly disguised RS29 pads (They call it P90) then any aftermarket pads have got a lot to live upto.

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Re: are your fast road pads street legal???? they might not be
« Reply #34 on: March 18, 2010, 09:51:39 am »
Quote from: Truckie on March 17, 2010, 09:32:02 pm
:indifferent: standard pads are £40 axle set  :notworthy:
If you are having bother with these pads on the road, ie over heating....you have other issues with the law!  :fighting:

 :congrats: :congrats:
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Re: are your fast road pads street legal???? they might not be
« Reply #35 on: March 23, 2010, 10:38:33 am »
TO CLEAR A FEW THINGS UP HERE GUYS

Ok, ive been on the phone to some people in the "know" today.
How things stand is if you have pads on OEM calipers that do not conform to Reg 90 then they you are doing so illegally, although if you have a BBK and are fitting say the DS 2500 then that is fine. Mental isnt it ? :confused:

Solution BBK group buy  :wink:
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Re: are your fast road pads street legal???? they might not be
« Reply #36 on: March 23, 2010, 10:52:00 am »
 :jumpmove: nice one  :jumpmove: who told you this ?
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Re: are your fast road pads street legal???? they might not be
« Reply #37 on: March 23, 2010, 10:58:53 am »
AP Mate, i was getting worried so gave them a bell, my BBK goes on in a couple of weeks.

The reason is that you are using non standard calipers so the pads dont need to conform to reg 90, the pads do need to be suitable for road use which ap say the DS2.5ks are  :happy2:
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Re: are your fast road pads street legal???? they might not be
« Reply #38 on: March 23, 2010, 11:11:17 am »
 :drinking: thanks for this
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Re: are your fast road pads street legal???? they might not be
« Reply #39 on: March 23, 2010, 11:15:01 am »
No bother mate  :smiley:
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Re: are your fast road pads street legal???? they might not be
« Reply #40 on: March 23, 2010, 11:23:15 am »
by OEM does that mean to the specific car or in general its been fitted to any car?

I'm thinking about R32/S3 brakes on a GTi which didnt get them OEM , but they are OEM for an S3 ....
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Re: are your fast road pads street legal???? they might not be
« Reply #41 on: March 23, 2010, 11:28:59 am »
i would think its stock fitted brakes like the s3 iron single piston brakes and i would think to class it as a bbk it would have to have more that 2 pistons in the caliper
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Re: are your fast road pads street legal???? they might not be
« Reply #42 on: March 23, 2010, 05:55:21 pm »
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Nice one, gobbler!  :drinking:

I was going to ask AP the same but you beat me to it. It's also exactly as I expected.
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Re: are your fast road pads street legal???? they might not be
« Reply #43 on: March 23, 2010, 05:57:48 pm »
Here in Italy Ferodo Ds2500 aren't legal, but they are wonderful as brake pads !!  :)
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Re: are your fast road pads street legal???? they might not be
« Reply #44 on: June 11, 2013, 07:07:21 pm »
 :mad: Holy Thread revival. 

Need a definitive answer on this as i'm in need of some new pads soon.  :driver:

DS2500 pads... Are these road legal with the NQSBBK?

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