New brake pads for my S3
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Not sure, have a look on the parts database mate.
http://audi.7zap.com/en/rdw/audi+a3+s3+sportb+lim+qu/a3/2016-745/6/615-615025/#10
http://audi.7zap.com/en/rdw/audi+a3+s3+sportb+lim+qu/a3/2016-745/6/615-615025/#10
I got 20k out of mine. And OEM will be far better quality than 'yellow stuff", hence why more expensive. Wouldn't touch them with a barge pole. Had them on my xr2 when I was 18, wouldn't trust them on a £35k car, read into that what you will.
LoL your XR2 must have been fitted with a flux capacitor then as the yellowstuff pad didn't come out until well into the life span of the mkiv Fiesta.
Even if you did time travel , do you not think the pad material evolves unlike other manufacturers ?
Redstuff is an RS3 discerning pad of choice .
So you think yellow stuff pads haven't been out 12 years? Bless. I've done various forms of motorsport throughout my life (still have a track car now that used to be my club rally car) and have always done research on my areas of modifying cars. Throughout this I found that ebc brakes are quite well known for having a bad reputation. Weather it be the greens, reds, or yellows maybe even do blues now?. My whole arguement was that the choice Audi made when choosing a pad manufacturer will have been extensive and surely better than ebc that cost, in this case £73. That's cheap for an uprated pad as it is. Brands like pagid, carbon Lorraine, Ferrodo(the various DS variants) are the good ones and you'd comfortably pay double that for any of them. You don't need to look far for horror stories on 'stuff pads. Putting them on your s3 wouldn't be something many people would recommend.
I wouldn't recommend EBC for the track anyway .
Hell yeah they've probably been out 15 years but they get updated , green at least 7 updated versions , red probably 5 and so on .
So the majority of bad reviews are from shocking early formulations .
I remember one pic of reds you could see three versions .
Ferodo and Mintex etc tend to not update at all..
Redstuff as a street / road pad is superb .
Hell yeah they've probably been out 15 years but they get updated , green at least 7 updated versions , red probably 5 and so on .
So the majority of bad reviews are from shocking early formulations .
I remember one pic of reds you could see three versions .
Ferodo and Mintex etc tend to not update at all..
Redstuff as a street / road pad is superb .
No not at all - yellows were launched in 98 I believe and winning championships in 99 so introduced a good deal more than 12 years ago and 10 years after the XR2 ceased production.
Also just for the record I wouldn't have put yellows on if I'd still had standard discs on matching pads and discs is important to get the best from both.
To the OP have you tried this :-
http://www.audi-sport.net/xf/threads/looking-for-parts-try-our-parts-request-system.296725/
To the OP have you tried this :-
http://www.audi-sport.net/xf/threads/looking-for-parts-try-our-parts-request-system.296725/
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You have to replace the disks as well? All my recent (non-VAG) cars have required new disks too when the pads wore out. Disks seems quite soft/pads quite hard these days. But this may be a feature of being a light brake user (pads lasted me a long time/mileage).
