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What did they feel like before? Have changed several vacuum pumps and the servo's do give trouble.

 

pump the pedal with the engine off, hold it down and start the engine. The pedal should move as the engine starts. If it doesn't you have problem with vacuum/ servo. If so pull the black plastic pipe out the back of the brake servo, with the engine running put your thumb over the end of the pipe, you should feel it sucking. If it is then prob servo unit failure. If not then vacuum pump or pipe leaking,follow the pipe check there isnt a pipe off any where or aux leaks. Hope this helps

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Fitted a set of mintex pads to a customers Discovery,they supplied them because they found them cheap on the interweb,prob e-Badger, they brought it back 2 days later coz the lining had come off 1 of the pads. Needed new discs then so they didn't work out that cheap in the end. Prob not mintex fault, probably been sat in a damp garage for years.

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Fitted a set of mintex pads to a customers Discovery,they supplied them because they found them cheap on the interweb,prob e-Badger, they brought it back 2 days later coz the lining had come off 1 of the pads. Needed new discs then so they didn't work out that cheap in the end. Prob not mintex fault, probably been sat in a damp garage for years.

 

 

Aparently, there quite a few fake discs and pads on the old bay, mintex being one of the favourites to copy.....:sneaky2:

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For over 30 years I acted for Mintex-Don in the commercial vehicle field. Now I retired from that industry 3 years so things might have changed but I was the buying group leader on friction products for a group of 20 independent wholesalers, we had a combined spend on several million on friction, you could count the quality problems usually on one hand.

 

I am sure Mintex would like to know about any issues with their products, they did have field engineers who could visit and advise but if the problem lay elsewhere then their time was chargeable.

 

It would not be the first time that fake brake pads have been sold in the UK as others have said. Assuming you have used good or OE quality parts its probably time to take it to an independent Land-rover specialist.

 

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Interesting. I have found that on my '07 Defender 110 Mintex pads in the rear shreik like banshees - I have never heard anything that made so much brake squeal. The only pads I have found that don't do this are Landrover "Genuine Parts" ones, and I don't know who actually makes them.

 

The Landrover pads have a resilient backing of some kind and come with new antisqeal shims; none of the non-LR ones seem to.

 

This does seem to be a particular problem with the 2.4 TDCi (Puma) Defenders, along with the famous rear pad rattle.

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