Good evening all!

After driving the Superb for a while now, I'm really disappointed with the brakes on this car. Especially when braking hard, I feel like it's not doing much and I have to press the pedal all the way through the floor.

I saw some threads on Briskoda about upgrading a 280 Superb/GTI or Cupra to 340 on the front and 310 on the rear.

The parts are supposed to be plug and play. There are some companies abroad, especially those that supply complete kits with dust covers, calipers, pads, discs, and brake lines. Has anyone here ever done a similar upgrade?

Do you think it will make much difference? Or would you just buy decent discs and pads and you'll be well on your way. I initially thought 340 would be nice for looks, but it doesn't make that much of a difference.

Thanks for all the info!

There’s a thread you’ve commented on that seems to be a successful change.

Might be a bit more straightforward finding a second hand set on eBay.

Or:

This?

Would just have to sort the rears then. Should be plug and play quite easily

Thanks for the reply! Yeah the thread was usefull. But it was an older one. Just wanted to see if more people dit the upgrade or that maybe just switching discs and pads would Already make a difference

Also here the note, when upgrading the brake, if you do it correctly, the new brake Hardware must be coded in the ABS

Just to clarify in your post there, the 280 comes with 340 front, 310 rear as standard. All others come with 312 front, 300 rear.

There's a few options - but it depends on how you're driving the car and how you intend to and your budget. my initial thoughts are as follows:

1. Move to 340 front and see how that works - the link I sent above will be all you need and gets you onto that size. I think the increased braking area is low hanging fruit,

2. Another very easy thing (as heat dissipation is key) is the RS3 brake ducts. Plenty of places do them, they're OE (Audit Sport developed), fit onto your lower arms with big thick cable ties and feed cold air onto the back of the disc (although for better response, ideally you can cut some grooves in the dust shields too - again, easy when you have the ones from the link above ready to go on the car),

3. If you're getting brake fade, you could consider getting some braided brake hoses and getting them fitted when you next have your fluid changed (they have to drain the system anyway so stands to reason to do it at the same time).

4. If the larger fronts are still not doing it for you, then there are options for aftermarket discs and pads from there.

I must have seen hundreds of posts like this over the years. Unless you really feel like lashing out the cash up front, the first job is making sure what you've got is up to scratch - more often than not it turns out the problem was previous maintenance (or lack of) on a new-to-them car. Old fluid, sticky calipers and the cheapest crappiest pads known to man so it'll make it through MoT/sale/handback, none of which are conducive to good braking.

Once that's been ruled out then 340/310 parts are cheap and plentiful - Golf R/GTI PP, Cupra, S3 can all act as donors. Ironically getting them off a Superb is probably the rarest point of supply.