Red Stuff Ceramic Pads

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Red Stuff Ceramic Pads

Post by DrB » Tue Sep 20, 2005 11:43 pm

Has anyone thought of using/ or has used Red Stuff Ceramic Pads. What do they think? - £163.33 - http://brakes4u.co.uk/products.asp?id=4707

Has anyone found any alternatived to OEM discs and pads?

Only alternative supplier I have found is:

http://www.speedways.co.uk/apec/list/audi/30.htm

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Post by W8PMC » Wed Sep 21, 2005 8:42 am

That's good to know.

When i spoke to EBC early last year about pads for my RS6, they stated they would love to sell me them however the had not designed any for the RS6 at that stage, but if i'd send them my back plates & current pads, they could develop some for the RS6 & it would take about 2 weeks. I could not have my car off the road for 2 weeks at that time so declined their offer but it looks as though someone has & they're now being produced.

I'd also be interested to here how anyone using these pads has got on. Is the difference over OEM very high?? I uprated my discs to the drilled & have noticed a marked improvement at track days, but better performing pads would possibly be a huge bonus.
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Post by DrB » Wed Sep 21, 2005 5:00 pm

Did Audi fit your new discs? How much did they charge?


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Post by W8PMC » Wed Sep 21, 2005 6:37 pm

Well that's the kicker.

Audi charged either £600 or £1000 to have drilled discs fitted as an option on the regular RS6 (i know they're standard on the +) & yet they're only about £15 per corner more expensive than the regular solid discs :o

My original discs were starting to suffer from surface cracking which is probably caused by very hard use aka track days. When i had these replaced at about 18000 miles, i enquired as to the price difference to have drilled discs fitted & to my surprise the difference was only marginal so i opted for drilled.

This has meant that the brakes stay on form quite a bit longer & fade is defo reduced although better pads would help this even further.
Paul
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