Rear brakes what to get...

[wagon]

hi, ive tried to search, but its disabled.


does anyone have any recomendations for rear brakes... i need to get mine changed.


if someone could shed some light that would be great. oh and some rough prices as what im expected to pay.

ta

chris

 

[badger5]

£58.20 for plain rear disks
£39 for std rear pads
+vat

 

[Welly]

Get Mintex ones off of eBay. See here: http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/AUDI-S3-MINTE...arts_Vehicles_CarParts_SM?hash=item35a132c463

Good if you're 'on a budget'! lol. Not heard anything bad at all about mintex pads, I plan to get some myself next week.

 

[1animal1]

i used several different brands with my A3...mintex included....you know what? for wear and braking the OEM did a better all round job than any i had...granted i wasnt using black diamonds, but for the price OEM in my experience are hard to beat

 

[Welly]

But £114.21 collected vs £55.99 delivered is a big difference (especially if you're lazy like me).... I'm going to give them a blast and see what they're like.

 

[1animal1]

i only tried them on my A3 so can only assume the same.... but i would say they OEM's seemed to last twice as long for me and didnt suffer from fading nowhere near as much....might be different for the S3, although i dont pay full OEM price

that said we do have a resident Audi garage that will post don't we?

 

[S3KO4]

A chap had a nice set on his TT yesterday, he mentioned that you can get drilled & vented 300mm discs with brackets that use the original callipers, you can get them from the TT shop for £300 it looked really good on, and gives you less nosedive on hard braking.

 

[1animal1]

won't that make the back more unstable if you havent upgraded the fronts?

 

[Welly]

won't that make the back more unstable if you havent upgraded the fronts?

I would of thought so.... Brake balance would be a bit out!

 

[rossbrownlee]

discs here for £19 each.

pads here for £14 a set.

Delivery is pretty reasonably cheap too.

 

[Gops]

I had a pair of mintex pads once and i didn't like them. They used to fade and wear very quickly but i did drive quite hard. I supose if your not going to drive like a looney (but still under the speed limit)like me then its worth a try.

 

[voorhees]

EBC rear discs here with mintex pads

 

[S3KO4]

Yes it would, I should have mentioned he had 345 at front as well.

 

[Nilz]

I have also heard that the OEM ones are pretty decent too, if you are running standard power.

 

[1animal1]

Nilz i tried several different brands over the years to cut costs on mine.. the difference between OEM was immense...altho never compared against the likes of greenstuff which would have been interesting

 

[Nilz]

Hmmm, know what you mean, I have thought about upgrading to the various other brands etc, but dont really see the point, if what I have does the job already at a decent price.

 

[1animal1]

same boat as me mate..... i hate spending pointless money on this car, especially now it has over 100k on the clock..... if it were an 8P then id be more enthusiastic cos i know id be keeping it a lot longer

 

[mattyboy199]

I bought Mintex discs / pads for my front & they seem to perform better than standard & theres less dust. I also need to do my rear discs / pads in the next few weeks, i was going to go for Mintex however Rosses link to VWspares seems pretty reasonable, £33 all in. The rear last for years anyway !

UPDATE - Just went to VWspares added all to cart & after delivery & VAT its £45.00 think i ll go with the mintex set £56.00 delivered.