Hi all ive just heard the dreaded brakes grinding noise so parked the vrs at home and need to buy new disks and pads all around . Has anyone purchased the vrs drilled and grooved disks or just stayed with standard and are they 280mm or 288mm

288 n i have grooved discs

How are they mate ive read they whine is this true ?

If it's the noise of the brakes that's peeing you off then I can't see

why you'd opt for drilled/grooved discs at all. If you enjoy the silence

and you're not a tracksl@g then I'd say some Pagid (Painted discs so less rust too )

matched discs and pads or maybe Mintex or similar. When they are changed make

sure your fitter cleans and lubes the calipers before fitting the new stuff.

Oh and the standards are 288mm btw...

+1 ^

Grooved discs will give you better performance then plain ones (remove water/muck/ gasses and assist cooling) however under medium to heavy braking they will be noisy.

So either fit plain discs or try slotted (eg EBC Ultimax), which are silent under braking.

My pads have gone atm so thats y its grinding i dont mind brake noise i just heard drilled and grooved brakes on the vrs has caused constant whining

Grooved/drilled won't noticeably improve braking in normal (eg driven legally on UK roads) application, you're reducing the surface area in contact with the pad. Some argument can be made for wearing the pad surface clean quicker or improving the efficiency of contact between whats left of the disc and the pad but they seem to balance each other out and on a car that's used daily on the roads for a reasonable distance it shouldn't need it and you just replace the pads quicker. In practice the grooves fill with crap even on car's that are used daily on fast twisty roads, the noise also becomes annoying and in before/after roller tests the braking efficiency is within normal variation.

Try them by all means but I'd spend the money on solid disc's and better pads if it were me and use better brake fluid. In track applications it's slightly different but a relatively low power hatch that'll spend the vast majority of it's life at legal speeds on public roads? Save your money

+1 on upgrading the brake fluid too.

(Not saying this about the OP btw) But

I'm sure some people don't realise that it needs renewing

from time to time.

It can really benefit in terms of hot performance

and pedal feel.

I always renew it at the same time as I change the discs.

I last swapped mine out for the ATE super blue racing fluid.

Better general performance and feel in the brakes, but to be fair I did

have the 312 upgrade done at the same time.

Both my vRSs have had grinding brakes - but the pads are hardly worn. Seems a "feature" of the car...

Off topic, but it's nice to see 'Brake' spelt correct for a change