The apparent foil tray which is supposedly a disc shield dropped off my the other week - obviously it waited until we were just leaving the Motorway services with a boot full of camping equipment.

Would anyone have a CAD drawing/dimensions of them?

 

I'd quite like to experiment with printing my own (though a bit thicker) and see how that holds up.
 

Plastic disc brake heat shields..... mmm.... 🙄, and not even proper moulded plastic with fibre reinforcing.

 

You might as well print them out of chocolate, at least then they would have the same utility as the OE bacofoil ones.

 

For one to get to the stage to drop off you must have been seriously neglecting maintenance.

Well apart from the fact I've only had the car for 2 months, your comprehension of 3D Printing is also clearly limited.

I'll wait on a response with just a scintilla of knowledge if its all the same to you.

They aren't massively expensive to buy new, genuine, so that might be the way to get an intact/complete/accurate pattern, albeit one that would need scanning somehow.

There looks to be two different part numbers 5Q0615311D, or same with G at the end instead. I expect they are different to go with different disc sizes but not sure.

There's also left/right part number diffs obviously, replace the last 1 with a 2 for RHS.

e.g. Audi/Volkswagen Front Brake Disc Protection Plate Left N/S - Genuine Audi/Volkswagen 5Q0615311G - LLLParts approx £14 plus postage. This outlet tends to reflect RRP at dearerships reasonably closely.

 

This page contains all the brake system info for 2015 octy LLLParts

Unintended comic mis-spelling of dealerships!

4 minutes ago, Breezy_Pete said:

They aren't massively expensive to buy new, genuine, so that might be the way to get an intact/complete/accurate pattern, albeit one that would need scanning somehow.

There looks to be two different part numbers 5Q0615311D, or same with G at the end instead. I expect they are different to go with different disc sizes but not sure.

There's also left/right part number diffs obviously, replace the last 1 with a 2 for RHS.

e.g. Audi/Volkswagen Front Brake Disc Protection Plate Left N/S - Genuine Audi/Volkswagen 5Q0615311G - LLLParts approx £14 plus postage. This outlet tends to reflect RRP at dearerships reasonably closely.

 

This page contains all the brake system info for 2015 octy LLLParts

Appreciated and I hadnt seen that site before and yep it may be the way forward.

I'm assuming I could mirror the STL file to get the opposite side, for the pennies it'd cost to knock them out it may well be worth it as what is apparently a disposable item.

 

Reckon you were bang on with the misspell too.

Maybe build a hybrid setup with the original (new) shield with AM part as support for added strength. Maybe even an added section for some air flow management.

13 hours ago, Igol said:

I'd quite like to experiment with printing my own (though a bit thicker)

What material does your printer work with? I can see resin plastics melting.