the front brakes on my felicia have come to the end of their life (probably a tad premature knowing my driving) and i am thinking of replacing them with slightly better ones to try and keep me alive a bit longer! i dont have an aweful lot of money to spend, but ive decided that given my driving i need better than standard brakes so its worth the investment! can anyone point me in the right direction for my new brakes! also, while im on the subject, can anyone tell me if its possible, how difficult and more to the point worth getting rear drums replaced with discs.

cheers.

I used to have grooved discs on mine, cant remember where I got them, I will have a look through the reciepts.

With grooved discs expect to eat pads.

eating pads is no problem provided i can stop! stopping is proving to be a minor problem atm! lol! any idea about fitting discs to the rear?

I would spend the money on sorting out decent discs and pads for the front brakes, perhaps relining the back brakes (unlikely to cost much), then having the brake fluid changed. The brakes on my Felicia 1.6GLXI work well.

cheers for the advice dude. any recomendations on make of discs/pads?

I'm pretty sure that the rear discs from a Mk2 or 3 Golf GTi will fit on the back of a Felicia.

I think the stub axles are a direct replacement - simply unbolt the skoda ones and replace with the VW ones - you would need the stub axles, backplates, calipers and caliper carriers, discs and wheel bearings - there's no separate hub, the bearings go straight into the discs. Mk3 Golf's have 5 stud wheels, but these are integrated into the discs, which really should be new anyway. Mk 3 calipers are reputed to be better than Mk2's - less prone to seizure.

Note though that I've never seen this done - I've ordered the bits from a VW breakers that I think will be necessary, and I'm planning a trial fitment on my Felicia Rally Car in the next few weeks.

Cheers

James

James,

As you have a felicia rally car you must be running above stock BHP?

What modifactions have you made to the engine to get more power, or have you transplanted an engine into it?

Cheers

Guy.

thanks for the advice peeps! really appreciate it! unfortunatly it will probably be a while before i can afford to do anything substantial to the car now cause i had the rear drivers side tyre blow out on me on sunday night and i just about managed to keep enough control to avoid on coming traffic and a 8ft tall stone wall and plant it in a soil embankment 3ft away from a rather sturdy looking tree! this has given me an excuse to put some rather flashy new alloys on it aswell as treating myself to an aggressor style bumper however it means the brake upgrades will have to wait a while or at least untill work are kind enough to give me a pay rise! lol!