Morning All

Seen many a thread about upgrading the brakes on the Fab VRS and have seen a locally breaking suitable donor

Just wondering if it is worth bying and upgrading the rears as well as the fronts? Or would that only make handbrake turns would be easier and not a of other inprovements?!

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and which bits exactly do i need.

discs, callipers, carriers, do i need hubs as well? - the breakers seem to think i did?!

Thank in advance

thanks in advance

Edited 13 January, 200917 yr by PastyBoy

The rear brakes do around 10% of the braking so £ against performance benefit it's not really worth it.

The rear brakes do around 10% of the braking so £ against performance benefit it's not really worth it.

Pleased to read that! I've just bought all the pieces for this upgrade but didn't bother matching the Zero60 discs and Strada pads for the rear as I just assumed it wasn't worth it. Im sure the OEM rear discs were only about £50/60 I bought so just gonna stick these on, or the mechanic will I should say!

Should of said in my last post, you only need the following:

Carriers

Calipers (and paint if you wish)

Discs

Pads

From asking the same question I was told the existing hoses and hubs will fit although I was advised the hoses are relatively tight but should'nt cause a problem

The guy that fitted mine used the existing hoses and I havn't had any problems, the brakes were bled a year later and no issues were brought to my attention.

Part numbers for the recommended items are on VRStu's site - Fabia-vrs.com - 312mm Brake Upgrade Kits - but as above you need carriers, calipers, discs and pads.

From what Stu says, hubs are only required if you don't have 288mm brakes (as fitted to the vRS) as standard

Personally i would invest in new discs & pads, Just get the calipers and carriers from the breakers!

What cars were they fitted on as standard?

I know they were on the :

Audi TT

Golf R32

Octavia VRS

But what else? Golf and Leon/Toledo V5? Just that the above cars are more difficult to find in scrap yards.

The upgrade kit thats on VRStu's site is deff going on my shopping list

Personally i would invest in new discs & pads, Just get the calipers and carriers from the breakers!

:iagree:

I bought calipers, carriers, discs and pads from a guy who was breaking his insurance write off vRS and when I took them to the garage they said it wasn't worth fitting the discs and pads as I'd only have to change them in 6 months. New discs and pads were about £100 iirc

What cars were they fitted on as standard?

I know they were on the :

Audi TT

Golf R32

Octavia VRS

But what else? Golf and Leon/Toledo V5? Just that the above cars are more difficult to find in scrap yards.

Golf R32 had bigger still, 323 iirc, possibly the golf anniversary you are thinking of.

Leon Cupra

Leon Cupra

Aren't they 323mm (Brembos)

I think the Cupra R 225 is, but not sure on the standard 180.

cupra r has only got the 323 brembo's... id hazard the cupra would be the same as the octavia with 312's

S3's also have 312's sure some passat 4motions have them too... theyre are loads... when i bought my ferrodo 312 pads they're was a huge list of vag cars on the back they fitted

Audi TT

Audi S3

Octavia vRS

4Mo Golf/Bora (MK4)

V5 Golf/Bora (MK4)

V5 New Beetle

Leon Cupra

Audi TT

Audi S3

Octavia vRS

4Mo Golf/Bora (MK4)

V5 Golf/Bora (MK4)

V5 New Beetle

Leon Cupra

Good info - cheers mate!

I thought the V5 stuff had it. Hopefully that will be a way of sourcing a cheap set of calipers as nobody want's anything from the V5 cars!! lol.

weren't the brembo's a cost option on the cupra R at one point?

Hi , does this brake upgrade fit inside the stanard 16 inch wheels

cant afford both at the moment , prefer to stop than look pretty !

looking at the website mentioned above they seem to squeeze in ok.

Yes they fit in, and look mashoosive