Hi all...

When I bought my mk3 Octy the garage I got it from fitted new pads and disks all round.....happy days.

BUT.....now it's been driven for a while the pads have started rattling and knocking, which sounds terrible.

From reading some posts on here it seems the cause is the garage fitted cheap pads with weak springs.à9aì

I've had the pads out and spread the sprung clips and reinstalled them and the noises went away.

After driving for a good gre miles the noises are back.

Seems the sprung clips on cheap pads are made of cheese and just get squashed and allow the pads to rattle around in the callipers.

So my question is....can anything be done to stop this happening....shims perhaps or will I have to replace the pads with better quality ones

Cheers

If you have the skills to get to the pads and take them out, just get a new set of good quality ones. They are not crazy expensive and will give you peace of mind

1 hour ago, prosist said:

If you have the skills to get to the pads and take them out, just get a new set of good quality ones. They are not crazy expensive and will give you peace of mind

Hi....thanks for the reply, its as I expected, I have had the pads out, cleaned them and stretched the little sprung clips and it was bliss at first, silence.....but after trip to London and back they are as bad as ever.

Any particular brand proved to be the best ?

OE would be my choice, as OEM can sometimes be a bit iffy if you get the cheaper under licence ones.

Ferodo are very good, as are Pagid. Brembo are crap unless they are proper ones. EBC are nice, but I'd choose OE over all of them for normal use with a stock vRS.

I ran full OE on my 350bhp vRS before swapping to DS2500 on the front. The car is back to 250bhp and the pads haven't got ages left, so I'll be putting some OE ones back on.

BTW - OEM are TRW/ATE pads. OE are the same TRW/ATE pads, with the VWAG stamp on the back, in a VW box.

16 hours ago, OccyVRS said:

OE would be my choice, as OEM can sometimes be a bit iffy if you get the cheaper under licence ones.

Ferodo are very good, as are Pagid. Brembo are crap unless they are proper ones. EBC are nice, but I'd choose OE over all of them for normal use with a stock vRS.

I ran full OE on my 350bhp vRS before swapping to DS2500 on the front. The car is back to 250bhp and the pads haven't got ages left, so I'll be putting some OE ones back on.

BTW - OEM are TRW/ATE pads. OE are the same TRW/ATE pads, with the VWAG stamp on the back, in a VW box.

Thanks for the advice.....I think TRW is the way to go, if I can find a local stockist