Chris and Liza Member 42 Member For: 16y 6m 15d Gender: Male Location: Sydney, New South Wales, Australia Posted 12/08/10 07:01 AM Share Posted 12/08/10 07:01 AM Hi GuysI just wanted to tell you all about a good experience I had lately.On eBay there is a seller called RapidRS who I purchased a full set of RDA Gold Passivated Turbo Grooved Sports Rotors and EBC RedStuff Kevlar/Ceramic pads. Their price was a good $300 less than my local brake shop.The level of service provided by Todd and Kathy at RapidRS has been exemplary. The parts were delivered by TNT courier in a matter of days from Melbourne (I am in Sydney).Unfortunately my car suffers from the crummy 303mm solid rear rotors and RapidRS supplied the better 328mm vented rotors by mistake.This problem was identified and sorted out very quickly with no additional cost to me. In fact, RapidRS has given me an unbeatable deal on brakes for my other car (Mazda 121).I encourage everyone to visit their ebay store or their website at Rapid Resource Solutions | CNC Milling | Turning | Engineering Pakenham Todd owns and runs a machining shop which specialises in custom design of brake rotors among other machining, including cnc.Regarding the product - I cannot fault the RDA rotors. A rumour going round is that these are cheap nasty chinese rotors which is not true. They are renamed EBC rotors which is a UK company. The discs are made in their factory in Bristol. The same goes for the pads.I have found the quality of these products to be fine. EBC pads have been around for a long time in motorcycling cirles and have a good reputation. As for the discs I have had no problems with warping having followed the breaking in procedure to the letter and tensioning my wheel nuts correctly. I believe the key is to fully stop as little as possible during the break in period - ie. brake from 60 down to 10 or 20 instead of coming to a complete stop. This should minimise uneven pad transfer.And no, I am not employed by EBC, RDA or RapidRS. I am just a very happy customer.Cheers,Chris Link to comment https://www.fordxr6turbo.com/forum/topic/69947-rda-rotors-and-ebc-pads/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
Worm A much better forum Silver Donating Members 3,808 Member For: 16y 9m 22d Gender: Male Location: Victoria Posted 12/08/10 08:04 AM Share Posted 12/08/10 08:04 AM I've had greenstuff ebc pads before... They chewed the rda rotors to bits...I've gone dba 4000 and bendix this time... Interesting to see if you feel the same after 10000kms as that's all my rda's lasted... Link to comment https://www.fordxr6turbo.com/forum/topic/69947-rda-rotors-and-ebc-pads/#findComment-1032055 Share on other sites More sharing options...
HIRO F6 Member 1,817 Member For: 16y 3m 25d Gender: Male Location: Brisbane, QLD Posted 12/08/10 08:09 AM Share Posted 12/08/10 08:09 AM (edited) Todd and Kathy certainly do do a great job at RapidRS and are lovely people, no doubt. I too would also recommend them and their work to other people.I do question one point you made. EBC and DBA actually merged, making them the one company. I didnt think when this happened all of RDA's manufacturing got moved to Bristol? Both companies simply continued business as they previously did.RDA still manufactures out of China, even DBA does. However, the rotors made for our cars are made in Sydney by DBA. Im only passing on the answers from my questions to the manufacturers. Edited 12/08/10 08:12 AM by HIRO F6 Link to comment https://www.fordxr6turbo.com/forum/topic/69947-rda-rotors-and-ebc-pads/#findComment-1032058 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chris and Liza Member 42 Member For: 16y 6m 15d Gender: Male Location: Sydney, New South Wales, Australia Posted 13/08/10 03:40 AM Author Share Posted 13/08/10 03:40 AM Thanks for your input HiroAs I've only just installed them and I don't drive hard (well not all the time...) I'm hoping the discs last ok. The braking performance sure is a lot better than the worn out old discs and pads!It is possible that they are made in china. I did a fair bit of research and all I could come up with was that they had a factory in Bristol. I was unaware that RDA had merged with DBA.Anyway, I couldn't afford the good stuff so hopefully the cheaper alternative won't be too bad.Chris Link to comment https://www.fordxr6turbo.com/forum/topic/69947-rda-rotors-and-ebc-pads/#findComment-1032272 Share on other sites More sharing options...
bradles024 Donating Members 1,145 Member For: 15y 6m 1d Gender: Male Posted 19/08/10 11:47 AM Share Posted 19/08/10 11:47 AM I bought RDA rotors for my typhoon and ebc redstuffs from the same guy, outstanding price. 7500kms old now, still going strong. Stop like anything, even with average tires on. Link to comment https://www.fordxr6turbo.com/forum/topic/69947-rda-rotors-and-ebc-pads/#findComment-1033809 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chris and Liza Member 42 Member For: 16y 6m 15d Gender: Male Location: Sydney, New South Wales, Australia Posted 20/08/10 11:37 AM Author Share Posted 20/08/10 11:37 AM Doing rear rotors and pads this weekend, along with braided lines all round. Also rebuilding the front calipers (shredded rubbers - thanks NSW Police!) - Should pull up pretty well after all that! With all the rumours of warping going around, I'm being really careful not to be too hard on them for at least 1000km... Link to comment https://www.fordxr6turbo.com/forum/topic/69947-rda-rotors-and-ebc-pads/#findComment-1034004 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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