sorry to post and ask this but the search isnt working for me and i need too know quickish.

Phoned auto factors for price on brake pads for 05 fab vrs there's 3 different types and sizes apparently, can anyone shed some light and info? are vrs not a special bigger type alltogether?

AFAIK, the dimensions are 131 X 63 X 19 on the front, and 87 X 53 X 17 on the rear. The Fabia vRS doesn't have a wear indicator, which you'll need to tell them too!

genuine Skoda P/N is 6Q0 698 151A

Delphi , spurious P/N is LP1728

tell them the pads are for 288mm discs

One thing to consider if buying after market brake pads is, even if you end up buying parts that are made by an OEM, will you be getting the "same" thing? I bought front and rear pads for my 2000 Passat V6 - from Euro Car Parts - they are said to be the biggest distributor of ATE parts in UK - and ATE is one of the brake parts manufacturers that VAG use. Well, I got the pads, fronts had anti-squeal bits fitted and the rears did not - my car had no anti-squeal on the front but had it on the rears!. Result, crumpled up anti-squeal bits now still clinging to the front pads and lots of squeal from the rears - just like a taxi! My advise is buy brake bits from VAG - unless you do your homework, find out exactly which supplier Skoda has used for your car both front and rear - check if anti-squeal bits are part of the pads, then only buy from an after market source is their parts are the same. Once you know the manufacturers use their web-sites to get the correct numbers - these will appear somewhere on the packaging. The names Textar and Pagit are used quite a lot - I don't think that ATE is used for pads or discs. From a motor factor you're pretty certain to end up with the correct backing plate dimensions and pad thickness and hopefully the correct material spec - just watch out for the anti-squeal bits or lack of it - if its needed - unless you want to sound like a taxi while braking. Saving money on parts is good but it is only worth it if you end up with the correct parts.

Only one type of pad for the vRS, as ric quite rightly said for 288mm brakes with Lucas calipers.

in all honesty, i dont care about anti squeel, if they are fitted correctly they wont squeel anyway lol

beside when your driving you dont hear um.

anyways got some now and fitted, cheers for input people

''if they are fitted correctly they wont squeel anyway''

Wrong I'm afraid.

Squeeling is basically a high frequency vibration due to insufficient clamping forces of the pad on the disc. There is always some vibration present and the OE supplier works hand in hand with the manufacturer to develop a compound right for the application and nowadays that includes eradicating squeal. The use of the intended anti squeal shims or compounds is fundamental to the paticular design/size of brakes/weight of car/clamping forces/pressures.

VW in the past mostly used Textar materials where they could get away with it and Pagid for the more problematic applications. My Ibiza 130 now gets supplied with Ferodo in the box when I buy genuine VAG...

I was with Pagid when they were developing brakes for the V8 Audi A8 Quattro. Audi originally supplied an american suspension spec. soft bushed car for the brake development. Even changing the suspension bushes to harder european spec. resulted in more brake noise and required re-formulation of the brake lining compounds

^^ I find that REALLY surprising and also a bit confusing!

I'm not saying my experience is in any way comparable, but I'm pretty handy with a set of spanners on a (push)bike, and whether it's rim brakes or disc brakes, whether they squealed or not was down to whether they were toed-in correctly. I appreciate that the brakes on cars have to deal with something a lot heavier, travelling a lot faster, but aside from issues of scale-up, I'm at a loss to understand why the same doesn't apply - especially when you consider that the relative speed of pad and braking surface is pretty much the same for a car braking at 75mph as it is for a road bike braking at 35mph...