Ferodo DS2500 Brake Pads

Ferodo DS2500 Brake Pads

Ferodo DS2500 brake pads are a popular fast road and mild trackday brakepad used by many hot hatch owners as an upgrade to the standard or OEM brake pads on most sub 1500kg cars.

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Ferodo DS2500 Overview

DS2500 are a great fast road and trackday pad in my opinion, on a car like the RenaultSport Clio 172 Cup or 182 Trophy, they offer a substantial upgrade to the standard Renault OEM pad, but without costing quite as much as the more race orientated Pagid and Performance Friction ’97 pads.

If you fit them with a good quality disc such as the Brembo HC disc or the Brembo MAX disc and braided brake hoses you will inherantly have one of the best value upgrades available for the car. The braided lines will eliminate almost all fade, but the pads will offer you consistent braking performance in most circumstances. Unless you are really pushing on the DS2500 pads are likely to offer you a good value.

I would recommend that you upgrade front and rear pads together in almost all circumstances, especially in a lightweight hot hatch. The main reason for this would be to retain whatever braking balance was there as standard. On a car like the Clio 172 or 182 so little braking is done on the rear that it can help you by using a more agressive pad on the back to eliminate some of the squirm that you will get when pulling up from big stops.

The main characteristics of Ferodo DS2500 Pad (according to Ferodo) are:

• The pad was inherantly developed for race use and is therefore designed to withstand the temperatures and abuse that generally come with racing and trackdays
• The pad works better in my opinion on lightweight car – sub 1500 kg, however Ferodo state that it is equally useful for heavier cars.
• Ferodo claim that they achieve 20% less pad wear than competitive products – I would be sceptical about this as something like the pagid blue is a fabulous pad that wears even less than the DS2500.
• Minimal bedding-in. This is very true – you can slap them in a caliper, warm them through and within but a few minutes, they are bedded in and ready for a thrashing.
• Disc friendly – a strange expression – I would have thought that all pads were disc – friendly – If they are talking about wear rates – we have already covered that
• Consistent friction level with variable temperatures and different speeds to give optimal pedal modulation. It is true the pad does feel good at anything apart from the highest of temperatures.
• High friction level at low temperature – the pads work well from cold – basically I haven’t had any worries about using them on the road.
• High friction level at very high temperatures – I am not so sure that I agree with this statement – I find that when they are being hammered on track they can go off, and hence on a circuit I would much prefer to have a performance friction 97 pad under my number 12.
• 35% less compressibility than competitive products (racing pedal feel) – again – how they measure this I do not know – but, I am sure that if they are claiming it – that there must be some foundation to it – how relevant it is to most people I am not sure.
• Less noise for increased driving comfort – Noise levels are generally good – in all of the time that I have been selling DS2500′s I have never had any problems with noisy pads with one exception of a chap who drove around town all day every day… My suggestion to him was to take the car out on a dual carriageway and brake heavily into a roundabout – problem solved.

It is simple to identify the DS2500 part numbers in the Ferodo racing pad range of part numbers each pad part number has a suffix that identifies its compound:

H DS2500
C 4003
R DS3000
M DS3000 Plus 03
E DS3000 Endurance
W DS1.11
X DS2.11

Here’s an example using the Renault Clio 172 / 182 DS2500 Pads:

FCP565H = Ferodo DS2500
FCP565C = 4003
FCP565R = DS3000
FCP565E = DS3000 Endurance

If you are looking for Clio 172/182 Brakes we have a guide here: 172 brake advice

Ferodo’s website offersof information on part numbers and pad patterns: Ferodo

If you are struggling to find a pad Ferodo’s Online Resource is quite good: FM Racing

If you would like a price, please don’t hesistate to get in touch – we are very competitive.

Always a Hooligan,

/y0z

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