grandadchris
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Is the S3 (8v?) a straight swap? You’ve peaked my interest with this. Also, I couldn’t find info anywhere on the Brembo Xtra being the HC variant. Great info. Cheers. Also also, those vagbremtechnic discs on awesome gti look to be oem but j-hooked. Not that much more (~£80 per 4) than brembos at ECP but not worth it IMO. (I’m dumb and thought ECP had them £80 a pair)
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RE my user name, I made this account about 8-9 years ago when I was in my early twenties and used to run various retro sleepers dressed up like beige brigade run abouts. Not a great idea in hindsight as I used to get pulled over all the time lol. good shout on trying the regular discs first. Not a huge loss if the end up swapped out anyway. I do understand the point of the efficacy of set ups that you need some heat in to work optimally, even so they were still better than most “regular” car’s brakes, but obviously there’s a line that needs to be drawn somewhere.
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Aright boys and girls, Had my FL Vrs TSI for about three months now and still loving it. However, starting to get comfortable pushing it now (nowt mad) and I’m quite underwhelmed by hard braking from nsl speeds. Granted this is a quite substantial car compared to the sub ton frenchies I’m used to but still. so anyway , my plans are frerodo ds2000/road spec pads (didn’t realise the dd2500 ones were “illegal”😬), braided lines and a fluid change. I’m unsure about discs though. The go to for the clios I used to run was brembo “high carbon” discs but these seem to only be for RS clios. The brembo discs at ECP seem to just be standard replacement? there are however some very flash vagbremtechnic ones on awesomegti which have my attention. They obvious come at a premium though. So what’s the consensus on upgraded discs then? Worth it? Too much outlay for minimum gain? TL;DR are upgraded/track day discs worth it for road use with occasional ‘spirited’ driving. thanks. 😊