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.