When I bought my Jag a couple of months ago the owner informed me he'd already purchased rear brake pads and they were in a box in the trunk.

So I started on changing out the rear brakes today. (They needed it).

But I got a big surprise when I went to put on the supplied pads. They were NOT correct! The plugs were not the correct plugs for the wear sensor. He had purchased them from autozone. So I call auto zone, give them my vehicle info ... and they came back with the same part number! So I had them look up the same part of an 89 XJ6 but NOT Vonden Plas. They had a diffierent part number. But they also couldn't even get them. I took the same info to Advance Auto, who had what I needed.

Not sure why saying Vonden Plas gives me the wrong part .... I mean ... my car IS a Vonden Plas. Who knows, but I took some pictures because I know you guys like that sorta thing.

Pic one compares a new brake pad with the old one. As you can tell, a slice of cheese would've given me more braking action than the old pad!

Pic two shows the WRONG connector (for what I needed anyway)

Pic three shows the correct item that fits what I'm driving.

 

The only difference is the connector. Early cars had a different style. The dealers simply cut the connectors and spliced the wires in. We carry both styles if you aren't comfortable clipping the connectors off.

 

Actually you do have at least some pad material on the old pad.My local garage man has seen the steel backing almost worn out on some cars he has had in for maintenance !! Clearly some people prefer money before their life. Wasn't that your US comedian Jack Benny ?

 

That was the better pad! And .... formally working on Aircraft .... I won't tell you what I've seen there... :-)