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  1. Yup, better street pads are exactly what you need. I too felt some fade with the stock LGT pads during high speed braking. I used and liked Carbotech 1521 pads (formerly called Carbotech Bobcat) on my LGT. There are other good street options as well.

     

    Note that proper bedding is very important for brake pad performance when switching pad compounds. If you don't replace rotors at the same time, either get the old rotors resurfaced, or be aware that it will take some time for the new pads to scrape off all of the old material, and you'll have to wait for that to bed the new pads properly.

     

    DOT4 fluid wouldn't be a bad idea either, but odds are you are not boiling DOT3 fluid. (The factory fluid is DOT3.) Still, if you've gone 30k+ miles on your current fluid, changing it is a good idea. ATE Super Blue / ATE TYP 200 (same thing, different colors) is a cheap, perfectly good DOT4 fluid that's widely available online.

     

    Many thanks)

     

    Fluid is already DOT4 and changed about 5k miles ago

    I live outside US and Carbotech is rare here I think.

     

    What about Endless , Ferodo or EBC street pads? is these brands ok or not too good?

  2. I dont go for track days or something like this, stock brakes works really ok everytime for me.

    But my driving style sometimes is very agressive, anyway I didnt do things like full fast stops from 100 ,etc (exept emergency situations)

     

    Sometimes ,usually in summer during agressive driving brakes I think is really overheating , and they smells like this too..

     

    The question is: What is the best (and cheapest! no Brembo kits ..etc) upgrade for this situation?

    Pads ? ( what kind of them do I need for that, which is the best)

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