Mintex pads work well thumbs

The Mintex code for our Caparo caliper pads is MLB52, I went with their 'Fast Road' MRM1802 compound paying £85.92 for a set of MLB52-MRM1802. I've been running these pads on Monty for over two years now with excellent results, having covered over 8,000 road miles I can confirm they work right from cold and do not squeal.

They've also performed brilliantly during numerous non-competitive hill climbs and tack days where despite the brutal punishment, they always completely refuse to overheat or fade. The Mintex MLB52-MRM1802 pads are also wearing well and seem kind on the discs, they do produce a bit more dust than a regular road compound but it's perfectly manageable.

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For the spring clips and the correct Caparo caliper compatible pins I went to Brands Hatch Morgan, the spring clips look the same as Princess but the pin design is Caparo specific, so using a trusted Morgan parts specialist for the full fitting kit ensured I got the right parts first time

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The Princess fitting kit is actually readily available for just £6.25, but be aware it comes with shorter pins that use split pins, not the dumbell type used in our Caparo calipers. As my original Caparo pins were well past their best I simply bought the correct full fitting kit off BH Morgan for £25.00.

To finish the job I completely purged the old fluid and replaced it with fresh Comma 100% synthetic DOT 5.1 fluid that has a dry boiling point of 275°C and a wet boiling point of 183°C; finally, changing the fluid every 24 months without the help of an assistant is now super easy using my inexpensive pressure bleeding kit.

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The total cost for a set of top quality 'Fast Road' pads and the correct Caparo caliper compatible fitting kit was £110.92, that's twice the price of putting a set of pads on my wife's Mazda 2, but a fraction of the cost of putting pads in my old 4.7 litre V8 Vantage. A Morgan is a very light car so it's kind on it's brakes, l expect to get at least 40,000 miles out of my Mintex MLB52-MRM1802 pads which at my current rate of use (4,000 miles a year), equates to a pad life of 10 years, so just over £10.00 a year.

Just as I'd predicted, a Morgan Plus 4 is a very economical car to own and maintain thumbs