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Originally Posted by ltec
No the joke is that a vehicle has to have genuine pads.
There is plenty of quality none genuine brakes and if the car is unable to have good brakes with these then the brakes are a poor design.
Not everything needs to be genuine. Some people are anal about genuine parts. But you actually find the same brand of part for half the price coz no dealer stamp on it even though its the same parts.
Sometimes genuine is needed like toyota ball joints etc
I've fitted non genuine pads in shogun, landcruisers etc and no problems and other far more expensive cars than xc90s so that's a stupid remark about value coke.
Plenty of other automatic cars with shoes inside the disc that dont have the same handbrake problems as xc90 so its a volvo problem. If they've had that design for so long its very poor they didn't fix it.
For mot xc90s is the most known car to fail on handbrake.
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The joke for me is you rock up on here, which unlike some other similar forums is well run and generally very well mannered and has contributing members trying to help other owners get the best out of their cars. Some members are very experienced engineers, there are also several dealer mechanics some with 40+ years experience - you cannot get experience like that anywhere else and I am not talking about any specific member or myself - there’s lots on every section. Anyway you ask what is quite a common question and then say the advice given is a joke... presumably because you don’t like it or it wasn’t the simple answer you were hoping for?
I come back to at 2.25 tons the XC90 is hard on front brakes. Unusually Volvo make their own disc and the pads are made for the under contract to their spec and hence you cannot buy them any other way other than from Volvo. The motor trade is littered with cheap poor quality pattern parts at the moment and a lot of the pattern brake parts for Volvo’s whilst will work to a point - do not match Volvo’s own. Some are better than others and I think people who fit ATE and Pagid have had good results but for the best performance and life - you will only get that from genuine Volvo. No other brand of pads are the same as Volvo just as Tesco’s ketchup isn’t the same as Heinz.... and never will be.
I’m assuming you don’t want to buy 3 sets of different manufacturer parts and spend a whole weekend swapping them over to see which work well, you just want it sorting with them minimum effort and you want good brake feel, right?