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MG MGF Technical - For a fellow car owner...

Folks,

Anyone know a garage in the cambridge area that will fit brake pads that you supply. He's phoned a lot up (kwikfit, ats etc) that say they will only fit their own supplied pads..

Cheers

ps. he's got a vx220 not an mg... and he's on mintex pads.
Chris Tromans

Any small 'one man band' would be only too pleased to make a few quid Here in WGC, the guy across the road from my office will do almost anything you pay him to do.
JohnP

Replacing pads on a VX is probably the same procedure as on the Elise - assuming that it uses the same AP Racing front caliper. If so, it is a pretty easy DIY... :o)
Rob Bell

Has he phoned local garages?

The brake parts are standard equipment, so as long as the pads are from a reputable supplier I doubt that a good local would have any trouble.

A flexiable garage I have used in the past is the Acorn in abington. Also there is a good one a friend uses in Milton.
Will

Just to say thanks for replies JP, Rob and Will...

He's going to try the "diy" route over the weekend... so I hope it works out ok because I've been in the VX (turbo) when he's been driving and he definately needs good brakes!! I almost had to change my undies afterwards...

Chris.
Chris Tromans

Chris, does he have the manual for the car? IIRC, the Lotus Elise manual is on-line and available to download in pdf format. :o)
Rob Bell

Rob,

Nope, I don't believe he does... can you email me a link at all to that?

Cheers

Chris
Chris Tromans

Chris - YHM
Rob Bell

This thread was discussed between 01/06/2005 and 03/06/2005

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