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9.1K views 37 replies 9 participants last post by  JaguarDriver  
I think the brakes on your car may be TRW, so you’d imagine that the TRW aftermarket stuff is the same as the factory originals. Check the DOT codes as Neilr suggests.
 
Have a look at the Bosch online catalogue rather than trusting what ECP say.
Car parts 4 less is the same company as ECP too. Often cheaper.

Don’t forget that 2mm wear on disc thickness is only 1mm a side. So if the lip you have on the disc is 1mm, then they might not go another 25k miles.
Having said that, I think they are very conservative with the minimum thickness.
 
Good point about the insurance investigators. They love a get out clause.
I thought the XE and X260 factory brakes were TRW? 325mm rear rather than 326 ATE.
Although I’m sure ATE make an aftermarket option.
 
I 'm not sure about this. It appears that many Jaguar boxed pads at least have the TRW logo painted on the thin backing plate but the pad underneath has the ATE/Galfer markings. I wonder if the hadrware was originally ATE but TRW also supply some discs and pads and rebadges ATE stuff where they don't have an alternative. I wonder if it is more supplies than engineering here. I don't know the XE and XF X260 parts so well but whenever I try and find what the originals are, there tell a mixed story :(
It must be a complex arrangement. Those 355mm Jaguar front pads I use, came in a Jaguar box, the pad’s shims were marked ATE and Galfer but the pad’s ears were stamped Jurid 310.
Hard to know who makes what.