£599 for brake pads

[Gazbo109]

I have just called Audi to get a price for Front pads for my RS3 , To be told £599 ****** hell haha

Anyone have any links to just as good pads but not so expensive ?

Thanks

 

[HM3P]

I have just called Audi to get a price for Front pads for my RS3 , To be told £599 ****** hell haha

Anyone have any links to just as good pads but not so expensive ?

Thanks

Speak to Trevor at RFT

My old 8V was the development car for Ferodo Performance pads.

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[Gazbo109]

Speak to Trevor at RFT

My old 8V was the development car for Ferodo Performance pads.

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Will do thanks for that

 

[HM3P]

Will do thanks for that

Or as an alternative

You could try DBA extreme pads

I ran these on my second set of Reyland discs just to see what they were like.

They take over 1000 miles to properly bed in and at one point I nearly took them off, but my god when they did bed in, superb pads.

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[royalsteve68]

But front pads have always been expesnive as you need so many.

For my 2017 RS3 saloon last year, I tried lots of places including main dealers and they all were fairly similar prices for either stock front disks/pads or stock front disks/ uprated pads eg Ferrodo DS2500. All were approx £1300-1500. In fact, the main dealer were the cheapest.

I used an independent. Think the Ferrodo pads were £400, Audi OEM discs £800 (as aftermarket are no better/worse), fitting £100 ish

Dont think £599 is too bad

 

[flybynite]

Anyone have any links to just as good pads but not so expensive ?

If you haven't got any already I went for OE Brembo pads. I went for their 'XTRA' setup (road use with grooved/drilled discs) P85152X is the P/N

One caveat: I have not tried them yet as I am waiting for discs but from the pads I have on other cars I have no concerns. Can be had for well under £200/axle set if you hunt around.

 

[royalsteve68]

I have just called Audi to get a price for Front pads for my RS3 , To be told £599 ****** hell haha

Anyone have any links to just as good pads but not so expensive ?

Thanks

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[L1ARR]

I was quoted £850 for front & rears from Audi in October with TPS quoting me £715.

AUTODOC were offering 46% off I bagged both sets for £145. Also upgraded the fronts to Brembo Xtra. All fitted with the callipers cleaned and pistons / pads greased with liquid molly anti squeal. Total cost £160.

Just goes to show the ridiculous mark up from Audi. Sadly TPS have been really increasing their margins over the past few years.

 

[Karbonfaiba]

Wait till you have to replace the discs as well! £2062 from Audi.

I'm either going with 09.D174.33 Brembo disc (for Sportback with 59.6mm offset) with P85152X "XTRA" to keep it 100% OEM.

or ZIMMERMANN 100.3383.70 (for Sportback with 59.8mm offset) with their 22491.165.2 pads - best alternative I've found under one manufacturer, but I can't find many user reviews. The disc appearance is similar to the untrained eye.

The objective is zero squeal, no clunks, reliable all weather road use. But I've read the Brembo disks always end up developing noises again after 10k miles or so... would like to go full Zimmermann just to be different and maybe improve upon the surface glazing and inside rusting that happens with the Brembo's, but I'm not sure my reasoning is good enough.