Hi all! My first post here, TLDR at bottom...

I have admitably not the car most would consider modding as opposed to just replacing it with a quicker or more advanced model, but it's what i've got to work with and to be honest holds some sentimental value for me now as it's the longest i've owned a car and bought it when our first child was to be born... just as background info.

My car is a 1.6TDI Octavia Mk3 from 2015 with the 7 speed DQ200 Transmission, which is a great car, although I always wanted a bit more from it as it's not really exciting in any way at all. It's recently been remapped, which hasn't caused me any problems at all and it still runs well. Next steps though, I would like to try and upgrade the brakes on the car, but i've been struggling to find information on what I could put on it. Does anyone have any reccomendations as to the following?

• Braided Brake Lines?

• Caliper upgrades

• Good options for Pads and Discs?

This would need to be good for road use, I'm not blasting it round a track or anything though it does spend most of it's road life on M roads, and I'm noticing sometimes that even just driving normally the brakes seem to be struggling a little sometimes, which i think is because the discs need changing soon so thought now would be a good time to look into some upgrades for braking in general.

TLDR: Ayone have road worthy brake upgrade reccomendations for a (roughly) 1.6TDI Octavia Mk3 Diesel auto with a presumed 140 BHP.

Edited 10 July, 202510 Jul by GooseBry

Not on a Skoda but I have very good experience on my BMW 740 Sport (E38 variant) with EBC Greenstuff brake pads. The BMW brakes are marginal for a 2.5 tonne 300 bhp car (single piston sliding caliper) but the Greenstuff pads have significantly improved things; better intitial "bite", less fade and less of the black dust associated with copper based pad material.

I shall be fitting these pads to my Octavia vRS as soon as I can undo the wheel nuts.....

1 hour ago, SwallownAmazon said:

Not on a Skoda but I have very good experience on my BMW 740 Sport (E38 variant) with EBC Greenstuff brake pads. The BMW brakes are marginal for a 2.5 tonne 300 bhp car (single piston sliding caliper) but the Greenstuff pads have significantly improved things; better intitial "bite", less fade and less of the black dust associated with copper based pad material.

I shall be fitting these pads to my Octavia vRS as soon as I can undo the wheel nuts.....

To be fair i have heard a lot about the EBC Pads, I think they mention them on TDC, Auto Alex and that on Youtube. I will be sure to give them a look! To be fair I don't know the spec on the stock OCtavia Mk3 brakes i have but they do a good job, just feel they could be better so maybe this is the play...
Thanks for the insight. Kind curious as well why you're having trouble with the wheel nuts, and is that on the vRS or the BMW?

8 hours ago, GooseBry said:

To be fair i have heard a lot about the EBC Pads, I think they mention them on TDC, Auto Alex and that on Youtube. I will be sure to give them a look! To be fair I don't know the spec on the stock OCtavia Mk3 brakes i have but they do a good job, just feel they could be better so maybe this is the play...
Thanks for the insight. Kind curious as well why you're having trouble with the wheel nuts, and is that on the vRS or the BMW?

I've only owned this Octavia for five weeks and the whoever did them up previously did them up far too tight. I managed to undo the F/N/S ones but the others defeated me jumping up and down on my 3ft breaker bar.....

What size discs do you have at the moment?

3 hours ago, SwallownAmazon said:

I've only owned this Octavia for five weeks and the whoever did them up previously did them up far too tight. I managed to undo the F/N/S ones but the others defeated me jumping up and down on my 3ft breaker bar.....

Have you tried placing a jack under the breaker bar and using the jack to apply leverage? Has worked in the past for me.

I have a Matika dtw300z impact, also a laser 7708 disc puller. Both tools have got me out of situations with no effort