Going to need to change the discs and pads on my 04 Fabia Vrs soon. Would love to upgrade to the 312mm discs but not a financial option at mo. Does anyone have any experiance of uprated pads, discs on the standard setup ?

Thanks

Graeme

all decent discs do the job...pad choice is endless depending on budget.

there is a shop on ebay selling EBC discs front and rear (drilled and grooved I think) and green stuff pads front and rear for £200 which is dirt cheap !

Ill find the link

there is a shop on ebay selling EBC discs front and rear (drilled and grooved I think) and green stuff pads front and rear for £200 which is dirt cheap !

Ill find the link

A 312 setup will cost you not much more and is much more effective.

there is a shop on ebay selling EBC discs front and rear (drilled and grooved I think) and green stuff pads front and rear for £200 which is dirt cheap !

Ill find the link

EBC discs I don't have a problem with, I run some on the front at the moment. But their GreenStuff pads; avoid like the plague!

Steve

grooved/drilled just for show..no benefit a all

Good thread was gonna ask the same soon as am sure i need to replace mine.

I would like to go with bigger disks on the front but what do people think about the rear?

Any suggestions on what to go for?

grooved/drilled just for show..no benefit a all

Drilled I would agree with, grooved I would disagree.

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grooved/drilled just for show..no benefit a all

Probably depends on your experience of them, I found them better on wet motorways. When I had them on my Polo I never got that initial delay to braking whilst the water was removed from the disk. With the grooved disks the brakes worked immediately.

My x drilled zimmermans which I believe were standard fit on several Mercs were amazing compared to standard.

Good thread was gonna ask the same soon as am sure i need to replace mine.

I would like to go with bigger disks on the front but what do people think about the rear?

Any suggestions on what to go for?

The rear brakes do very little, there is probably no cost effective benefit to be had from any sort of upgrade.

here is the link for the ebc disks and pads

EBC Front & Rear Brake Discs & Pads SKODA FABIA VRS on eBay, also Brake Components, Performance Tuning Parts, Car Tuning Styling, Cars, Parts Vehicles (end time 23-Nov-08 10:06:48 GMT)

Also here is a 312mm set up from a TT, is £260 a good price for this set up ?

312mm Brake Set Up MK4 GTI TDI VW Golf Seat Fabia vRS on eBay, also Brake Components, Performance Tuning Parts, Car Tuning Styling, Cars, Parts Vehicles (end time 04-Nov-08 15:47:56 GMT)

The rear brakes do very little, there is probably no cost effective benefit to be had from any sort of upgrade.

I can vouch for that. I replaced mine at 45k with standard Skoda pads @ £15

As I suspected seeing as I never see rear brakes upgraded, think I will just replace the pads and maybe upgrade the fronts.

I had green stuff on my Corsa and thought they were great, why do people dislike them on here?

Leave deposits on the discs, break down when you push hard on them, seen to crack up by some people on here and generally not work so well.

I run EBC red ceramics and find they are great, but some people on here don't like them either.

So even if you can take me as somebody who likes EBC pads, I wouldn't run the greens.

They squeeled all the time when I had them fitted to a Polo GTi, even when warmed up. They put out a huge amount of brake dust and when I eventually gave in and fitted OEM pads, the difference is pedal feel and general brake performance was marked.

And that's why I won't use Greenstuff again. I use DS2500s now and probably won't change. As I've said, I use EBC discs so I don't have issue with the company in general. Only when they make sub-standard products

Steve

The 312mm setup is so worth it in my eyes and as said not a great deal more expensive i did mine for £300 all in oem audi discs and pads and calipers and carriers.

I got Black Diamond Combi discs and matching Predators pads (only got matching pads as that's what they had in stock and was too impatient to wait) for £140 pair of discs and £50 set of pads, which I think is a steal for performance discs and pads! and they're great!

Forgot to mention that calliper carriers (new - so similar price to the whole lot from breakers etc) plus new VW OEM discs and EBC redstuff cost no more than some grooved discs and the same pads would have cost.

That was moving from 288mm (octy) to 312mm (octy).

I'm running standard size disks but they're drilled, grooved and vented. I found a big difference in braking performance. Think mine were from a TT............

Thanks guys for all your feeback. Great to hear personal experiances. Will look into the 312mm conversion more see if i can strech the extra amount if not then just gona go with standard discs with uprated pads.

I used to run cross grilled and grooved dics with green stuff pads on my Classic Mini and never really noticed an important improvement with the dics and you had to warm the pads up properly to get any sort of pedal feel out of them. Not able/willing to do that in Fabia as have relatively short drive to work everyday !

Thanks again

Graeme