I've got a vRS, with the red calipers.

The front calipers look fine. When I bought the car, the rear right looked awful and had flaked entirely. Skoda made such a mess of repainting it, they ended up replacing the whole thing.

Now, a year later, the rear left is following suit. I'm not interested in doing it myself as I want it done properly. My first thought was to just replace it and call it a day - saves messing around with matching colours, etc.

Having looked up some prices, even Skoda Parts are after £280 for the caliper (which is fine) but then a further £160 for the carrier, which I didn't factor in. As they're the rear, the carrier is half of the brake, visually, and I think just replacing the caliper might look a bit silly. That said, £435 (or £640 from Skoda UK) is daft for a bit of flakey paint.

So, next option is getting it touched up, but I have two issues. Firstly, most places don't remove the calipers to paint them - what are peoples thoughs on this? I'm not that keen on masking tape, but most people seem to have no issue. I could remove the caliper and drain it, but I don't really want to do this myself and my VAG indie is a fair bit away from the painting place.

The other problem is that they will only be able to match the paint the best they can. This means that it might look a bit off, and then I'll be looking at doing the front to match (which is factory finish and I don't really want to do).

Keen for inputs. Replacing the brake seems stupidly expensive, but repainting just that caliper opens up issues with matching it - not to mention the potential painting on car issue.

Assuming you are talking about 310mm diameter rears, have a look at TRW BHS1701E or BHS1702E from Autodoc, depending on which side you need. They are the remanufactured part numbers for the original TRW calipers, painted in the correct shade of red for the vRS. One of my rear calipers refused to rewind so I was already looking at disassembly & overhaul, but as both were flaking paint I decided to swap them as the simplest cure. The paint on the carriers was fine though, so some added expense if yours need attention.

I paid about £300 for the pair and am due £60 odd back, if/when I return the originals.

Very interesting - my indie can easily get TRW but I assumed there would be a 0.001% difference in the shade of red.

My carriers are fine - it’s just the rear caliper that have gone.

@Carlston might you be able to confirm a part number for me, please?

I'm after the rear left caliper for a vRS with the 310mm disc. The part number I have is 5F0615423. I've got 5F0615424 as the rear right caliper.

Are these correct, please?

The colour is the same and new caliper matches 5 year old carrier just fine. Here's a photo, not the best lighting but should give you an idea at least.

3 hours ago, OccyVRS said:

I'm after the rear left caliper for a vRS with the 310mm disc. The part number I have is 5F0615423. I've got 5F0615424 as the rear right caliper.

Are these correct, please?

Left rear brake caliper 310x22mm 1KW 5F0615423
Right rear brake caliper 310x22mm 1KW 5F0615424
Carrier for left rear brake caliper 310x22mm 1KW 8U0615425A
Carrier for right rear brake caliper 310x22mm 1KW 8U0615426A
https://www.lllparts.co.uk/catalogs/skoda/CZ/OCT/805/6/615/615065

Edited 24 April, 20251 yr by Carlston

1 hour ago, Carlston said:

Left rear brake caliper 310x22mm 1KW 5F0615423
Right rear brake caliper 310x22mm 1KW 5F0615424
Carrier for left rear brake caliper 310x22mm 1KW 8U0615425A
Carrier for right rear brake caliper 310x22mm 1KW 8U0615426A
https://www.lllparts.co.uk/catalogs/skoda/CZ/OCT/805/6/615/615065

Thank you! :)