Best Place To Buy Discs?

Mike_B

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Irritatingly, I have a pair of warped discs!

Consensus seems to suggest Pagid as a good replacement (nothing fancy, just the standard 288 / vented variety -) - any recommendations please on best price / decent delivery etc ? I doubt I can use TPS incidentally.

Also - pads - something to help the overall braking would be nice! And I want to avoid nasty rattling and clunking noises from ill-fitting pads - recommendations appreciated.

All bearing in mind this is just a standard 2.0 petrol job and while it would be nice to have larger discs etc, this isn't going to be practical for me cost-wise!

Finally - I'm happy to wield the tools - but have never worked on a car with ABS. All advice appreciated, notably what size bit is needed to get the callipers off, having got stuck on this on an old Mondeo a while back. Many thanks. Mike.
 
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Try Eurocarparts, just done my front pads and disks for about £60. I'm pretty sure that was with Pagid stuff.

Its very easy to do yourself. You'll need a 7mm allen key for the caliper slider bolts, which you don't always get on a standard set and a brake re-wind tool. It took me about 15mins per side, if its the first time doing it it'll take you abit longer.
 
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Ah yes - that's the one I DIDNT have! The 7mm - - I expect the bolts will be dead easy to get out --

Pagid discs and pads are now waiting for collection in my local ECP. Thanks gents.
 
Ah thats good. The bolts came out alright on mine. Depends if the last person who put them in put grease on the threads!

I got a 7mm allen key on a 3/8" inch socket drive which helps.
 
Indeed! They were changed 3 years ago - here's hoping they did - -

I have a very long breaker bar - and I'm a fan of allen key sockets - nothing can possibly go wrong!
 
All done. Top Tip 1 is to have either a LARGE G-clamp or the proper caliper retraction tool! Doing it with an engineers vice, under the car, is a pain - - - finding the allen key socket was also a pain. Halfords - no. ECP - no. Screwfix - no. Local farm suppliers came up trumps. Top Tip 2 is indeed the breaker bar - no probs on the passenger side, which has been off in the last year for a bearing. The drivers side, on the other hand - -

Clearly I'm bedding them in for a bit, but even at this stage they appear to have more bite than whatever was on the car - certainly not Audi parts - they didn't even have the retaining grub screw hole.

Doing the job also revealed the solutoion my garage had come up with to deal with the annoying faulty pad warning light they were asked to fix. My interpretation of "fixing faulty wiring" is NOT to cut the blasted connectors off at the loom end, and apply a Scotchlox to bridge the wires! On both sides! Words will be had. In the meantime, I don't suppose anyone has a pair of male ended connectors lying around? A little soldering and some heat shrink will restore everything to how it should be I expect. Failing that, I suppose I'll have to rake around the breakers.
 
TRW from VWspares are very good and come pre painted.