Im going to replace my front discs & pads on my 2008 octy tfsi vrs & was wondering what people have fitted? im after standard discs & maybe uprated pads if req as the brakes have never inspired confidence on this car.

Pagid from ECP, work fine and are reasonably priced too

Pagid from ECP, work fine and are reasonably priced too

Just had a look on their website & i can get pads & discs all inc for £103.85p,i have a friend who works for them so ill ring him tommorow & see if he can beat that.

Did you use the brisk25 code for 25% discount?

Did you use the brisk25 code for 25% discount?

Yes i did.

I did pads, discs, shoes and drums on the lads Lupo and it was only about £125 all in, they had a brake special code on and I got 35% off, can't grumble at that.

I will be replacing the discs on the Golf with Pagid but then using some uprated pads as it will be going on the track.

Good stuff. They are reasonable prices really. I managed to get disks and pads for all four corners for 170 not so long ago.

Im going to replace my front discs & pads on my 2008 octy tfsi vrs & was wondering what people have fitted? im after standard discs & maybe uprated pads if req as the brakes have never inspired confidence on this car.

How long did your originals last for? Mine are seemingly indestructible - still going strong at 83k!

Edited 11 June, 201313 yr by steve33

Car has 44k on clock,lots of pad life left but discs are corroded on inner face.

Car has 44k on clock,lots of pad life left but discs are corroded on inner face.

Mine is similar. 43k miles pads are fine but discs have quite a ridge especially on the inner face. Was either going to get pagid from euro car parts as its a good price or was thinking of ebc ultimax discs?

The std pads that come on a 'rocco fitted to mine have coped very well with several heavily laden, spirited alpine traverses. Lasted 20 000+ miles so far, still look healthy. Less dust than the std ones on the mk1.

Hmmm... 104£ roughly equal 140€.

For approx that money I found on ebay Brembo discs and pads (delivered in Italy, from different sources.)

Don't know how the Pagid parts fare performancewise... but to get Brembo brakes one could even be ready to spend a few € more.

Mine is similar. 43k miles pads are fine but discs have quite a ridge especially on the inner face. Was either going to get pagid from euro car parts as its a good price or was thinking of ebc ultimax discs?

Just replaced mine (last week) with Pagid from CarParts4Less (which looks suspiciously similar to ECP but cheaper). Mine were really really badly corroded at 53K, much much better now (but still not a patch on my 340mm brakes from my Leon Cupra MK2);

Qty Parts Description Vehicle Reg Price 2 104441508 Pagid Brake Disc (Front) Skoda Octavia 2.0 2009 £75.60 1 101441138 Pagid Brake Pads (Front) Skoda Octavia 2.0 2009 £25.14 Sub Total: £100.74 Discount : £0.00 Delivery : FREE TOTAL : £100.74

I changed the front discs and pads on my 2006 TFSI VRS last year with genuine Skoda from Rainworth Skoda. Prices were:Front Discs £98.98 (for both)Front Pads £48.99 (the set)£144.97 for the Front. That inlcuded postage as well and they turned up within a couple of days.

Never had a problem with the brakes on the VRS always felt very strong and I don't drive lightly. Heard some average reviews of the PAGID stuff from my brother in law who works in the trade but maybe that was a one off that clouded his opinion. Can't go wrong with the original equipment stuff especially at that price. I also painted the hubs before I fitted them....can't stand rusty hubs )

... Can't go wrong with the original equipment stuff ...

Only... Original stuff is almost always stuff made by somebody else and rebranded (and with a little extra £).

So the secret is to discover who really makes the "original stuff" and thus save £.

Besides, it's not always true that "Can't go wrong with the original equipment stuff" for car makers do make compromises (as everybody) and there's always room for improvement.

I've got Brembo discs and genuine Bosch pads. They bite REALLY well!

Duro, I believe that Skoda is a quality make and if they fail you would have some comeback, try that with some other products of unknown origin. Yes manufacturers do make compromises but I know from personal experience that the VRS brakes are good out of the factory. Notice you have a TDi non VRS so you presumably don't drive as hard so won't need or have experienced the power of the std. VRS brakes. I have a Ford Focus to a similar spec as your car as my commuter car and wouldn't bother with original manufacturer brakes but the VRS is a different beast.

Anybody tried ebc blue stuff pads. They get amazing reviews on scooby and lancer forums both for road and track use .

Duro, I believe that Skoda is a quality make and if they fail you would have some comeback, try that with some other products of unknown origin. Yes manufacturers do make compromises but I know from personal experience that the VRS brakes are good out of the factory. Notice you have a TDi non VRS so you presumably don't drive as hard so won't need or have experienced the power of the std. VRS brakes. I have a Ford Focus to a similar spec as your car as my commuter car and wouldn't bother with original manufacturer brakes but the VRS is a different beast.

Manufacturers DO make compromises as anybody else (apart maybe F1 teams).

"Compromises" does not mean bad quality. It means making a deliberate choice between quality and cost.

Do you think your VRS brakes are identical to those of F1 cars? Obviously not. Why? 'Cause the cost would be unbearable for a "marketable" car and the extra performance would be unjustified.

And please note that I was not talking about "some other products of unknown origin". I was talking about branded, quality products.

Porsche (a VAG make, BTW) proudly sports Brembo brakes. Would you mean that a brand good enough for Porsche is not good enough for Skoda?

I've been in the spare parts trade for over a dozen years and I know what I mean.

I know (and it should be quite evident) that the vast majority of components of a car are sourced outside (say, all the electric parts, wheels&tyres, shocks, glass, plastics, rubber, etc.)

When the car maker strike a deal with, say, Ferodo for the brakes they do not ask for the absolute best. They ask for a precisely defined given "quality" (i.e. performance, reliability, ease of fitting, etc.) at a given price.

When we look in particular to options, pls note that the price we pay to the car maker to have them installed is far higher than what they paid.

On options, car makers and delers make margins they cannot make over the "basic" car. That's one of the reasons why they tend to sell you "packages", in order to sell options other than those you strictly desired (the other reason being simpler production planning, which means lower costs).

Years ago I was told by boss of Pioneer that the car stereos they sold at 100€ in supermarkets were twice as better than the 300/400€ stereo you could have as a factory-installed optional (and which were paid a few bucks by the car maker).

To make an example with a perfectly comparable item, take the sunroof. It's not made by VAG. VAG buys it outside (very likely by Webasto) and installs it on Skoda, VW, Audi, etc. and, on comparable size cars, it's always the very same item.

But, if you buy it for an Octavia you pay 960€, on a Golf 1024€, on a Passat 1037€, on an A3 1110€, on an A4 1140€.

Why? 'Cause VAG knows very well that the average purchaser of an A3 is likely to be willing to spend 150€ more than the average purchaser of an Octavia.

As far as "OEM" is concerned, I'll give you another example.

I traded in spares for classic Mercedes cars.

When clients asked us for shock absorbers, we offered them a well-explained option: OEM M-B or Bilstein?

Some clients (the picky or the rich ones) chose OEM. Others went for the Bilstein.

Well, the OEM M-B shocks simply were Bilstein ones with a "M-B star" stamped on them, a M-B branded box and a +100% price tag. Absolutely no other difference whatsoever.

Clients who insisted for the OEM items used to say "I feel safer with OEM parts". Actually, they should have said "I'm not trusting you as an honest seller and I suspect you want to sell me cheap things on which you earn more money".

So, it's not a matter of trusting OEM, it's about trusting the seller.

We never tried to insist with those guys. After all, the higher the price tag, the higher the profit.

To sum it up:

1. OEM components (apart a few big things like chassis or engine big parts) are just "third party" products on which the car maker put an extra profit.

2. OEM components are usually fairly good but sometimes they're fairly poor. E.g. the plastic wheel of the water pump of many BMW TD engines of some time ago (on BMW and LandRover cars), often broken with devastating effects on engines: a few pence profit for BMW and a potential 1000's£ damage for clients.

3. There is always something better out there. Just look for it. You can have better quality at the same price or same quality at a lower price or even better quality and price.

The question is not "Are Brembo brakes better than OEM". The question is "IF Brembo brakes are much dearer than OEM, am I willing to pay the extra?"

BTW, this same consideration can be made over servicing and repair. Official dealers are not necessarily better than independent ones (I've had my fair share of angry clients coming to us to have a proper mechanic or body works advice after being ripped off by official dealers or even country reps of car makers which had made disasters on their cars.)

On a final note: How can you relate the type of car to how hard one drives? I have a 1.6CRD for I cannot afford costs of a VRS. If cost wasn't an option, everybody's garage was full of RR's and Bugatti.

Edited 13 June, 201313 yr by duro

Put Ferodo discs and their 'premier' pads all round on mine last year. Very happy with the performance of them.

EBC Turbogroove discs and EBC Redstuff Ceramic pads

Good bite and low on dust

Fitted Pagid discs & pads & changed the brake fluid,just under £70 all in (pal works at ecp) parts look to be good quality. 

EBC Turbogroove discs and EBC Redstuff Ceramic pads

Good bite and low on dust

And completely the wrong wheels by the look of it 

Anybody tried ebc blue stuff pads. They get amazing reviews on scooby and lancer forums both for road and track use .

 

 

Blue is an endurance racing (track only - non road) pad.

 

Try red or yellow or look elsewhere.

Noticed they don't list blue yet in the correct fitment anyway. If you check on various forums etc ebc actually recommend it for road use and it has the correct reg 90 approval