Since my rear pads decided to jump off my vrs i thought it was a good time to replace all discs and pads.

You guys have any tips i should stick to for a nice easy swap over?

I have a caliper rewind tool, Cheers

Wear gloves, use a stand to support the car, don't work off a jack, clean and copper slip the pins/bolts and on back of pad (NOT face), clean the disc before fitting to get the protective coating off and again after everything is fitted to get grease off from your hands during fitting.

DON'T BUY EICHER PADS.

Excellent, thanks for the info mate. Ill grab a tube of copperslip from work on monday. Looking at Pagid so will steer clear of Eicher

Greenstuff are advertising discs now as well. Anyone experienced their products like to comment?

EBC Greenstuff pads are awful in general. Don't waste your money on EBC discs either, slotted/drilled/grooved does nothing for your stopping distance as proven on the rollers, it reduces the surface area of the disc in contact with the pad, introduces noise and the only real benefit is they wear the pads more quickly reducing glazing which you shouldn't get with road use anyway.

Buy Bosch/Padgid, you can spend a lot more but see near zero benefit for most people.

Edited 11 May, 201313 yr by Avalon

EBC Greenstuff pads are awful in general. Don't waste your money on EBC discs either, slotted/drilled/grooved does nothing for your stopping distance as proven on the rollers, it reduces the surface area of the disc in contact with the pad, introduces noise and the only real benefit is they wear the pads more quickly reducing glazing which you shouldn't get with road use anyway.

Buy Bosch/Padgid, you can spend a lot more but see near zero benefit for most people.

I use my vrs mainly for commuting to work 500 miles per week! So no performance brakes needed, just have to be reliable and last the year need new tyres too, mine are the loudest on the road ive ever had!

Turn the radio up Run then till you've had your monies worth out of them, personally I loved Sportrac 3's (and slightly more noise due to V tread) but they don't last as well as Michelin or Conti's, a lot of people like Rainsport 2's (old Conti design/formulation) but again possibly not the longest lasting from what's been posted.

Don't use copper slip, use bosch superfit.

Copper slip is bad for brakes, superfit is designed to be used on brakes and only costs a couple of quid.

I was told at the vw garage when I worked there copperslip can affect abs, is also deteriates caliper seales and also the rubber slider boots.

Good luck.

Turn the radio up Run then till you've had your monies worth out of them, personally I loved Sportrac 3's (and slightly more noise due to V tread) but they don't last as well as Michelin or Conti's, a lot of people like Rainsport 2's (old Conti design/formulation) but again possibly not the longest lasting from what's been posted.

Its the v tread design that i have too, the radio is always upmfull to drown out the drone lol! Still 4mm left on them so will run them down and replace.

I've got pagid pads and eicher disks all round and can't complain about them. Started to squeel abit even though I greased them when fitting so will do it again

Edited 11 May, 201313 yr by Kyle_vrs

The correct Pagid pads should come with ant-squeal sticky stuff on the back, so you only need to use a lubricant on the guide pins. ECP sell Textar/Pagid branded copper free brake assembly lubricant.

Contrary to what has been said, discs that have sensible/functional grooves do have a place on cars that have trailing callipers as they help shed water of the discs, and some cars suffer badly from a build up of water. Also even in UK and mostly the top half, heavily salted roads will lead to glazing of the pads, also discs, such as ATE Power Disc, do not cause much more pad wear that plain discs - I have been using ATE Power Discs on the front of my B5 Passat for about 7 years.