The fact that it has been vibrating strongly in the front of the brakes since recently, as soon as the discs are a bit warm, I suppose that the discs need to be replaced. (Paintings are new.) So from your experience: * How long do the front brake discs hold in normal driving mode? * What experiences are there with third-party manufacturers? Skandix has beside the original parts which of ATE and Zimmermann as well as a “house brand”, the prices are quite different. Zimmermann, however, has about e** y cheaper, set incl. brake pads for 99 € (no-name products again significantly cheaper, but we prefer to leave the fingers off). Basically it also comes to 50 € more or less not at such a repair. * Do I really have to renew the pads when changing the discs? Was only done half a year ago, Volvo original pads, now about 8.000 km old. I have heard that this is always recommended, since the pads depict the bars of the old disk and then work these into the new discs, like a kind of stamp.