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Done a search and its seems it the past people have paid about £1000 for replacement discs and pads.

I have just been quoted £1500.

The gap between the normal smooth and cross-drilled seems to have widened too.

Quoted £175 for smooth front and £237 for cross-drilled.

Can you let me know what you've paid or been quoted?

and how often do you change yours?

I know it depends on driving 'style' etc but we can average that out if we get a few replies.

Morning,

In order, i paid around £1000 for new discs all round (drilled) & about £390 for front pads & £100 for rears, so £1500 is bang on the money.

The gap has widened between regular & drilled discs, as when my where last replaced (about 9months ago) the regular discs were only £15 per corner cheaper than drilled.

As for replacing, that does depend on your driving style & activity. As you drive like a girl you'll probably get over 40K from the discs & 20K from the pads. JK, you're probably looking at an average of new discs every 22K ish miles & new front pads every 12K miles, rears probably be replaced with the discs at 22K.

That's only an estimate, my discs last about 12K miles & front pads about 6K miles.

discs every 12k.......fcuk sake, that is horrendous....

You haven't seen how quick he goes, I am surprised he gets that

I can expand slightly, as my RS6 had it's 3rd service yesterday & the report back was front pads 90% worn & front discs only got a few months life left in them.

Both were replaced 5 months ago & 6500 miles ago, so bang on the money really. Discs will probably see another 4000 miles, pads will need changing straight away.

As for price, i found my old receipt & total cost for the 4 drilled discs & front pads was just under £1400 including vat.

To be fair though, the car has done Nurburgring (3 days), Oulton Park track day & 2 VMAX's since the last change of consumables. They also spotted that the tyres had just over 1mill tread on the outer edges & over 5mill in the centres. So that's about £2500 to shell out over the next few weeks.

All this is very different to my experience! I use my car mainly for long distance (predominantly motorway) journies. It's currently on about 23k miles and is still running original pads, discs and tyres.

Oh, and for a lot of the time, there's an interactive speed limiter sitting to my left!

peterb wrote:All this is very different to my experience! I use my car mainly for long distance (predominantly motorway) journies. It's currently on about 23k miles and is still running original pads, discs and tyres.

Oh, and for a lot of the time, there's an interactive speed limiter sitting to my left!

All i can say is you lucky bugger.

Mine has only covered 26000 miles & i'm about to take my 3rd set of tyres, 4th set of pads & 3rd set of discs. All in all, about £8000 of consumables with this next set in almost the same mileage covered.

If you drive the RS6+ hard then consumables need replacing often. I have done 22k miles and am on my third set of tyres, second set of disks and third set of pads. However, every time I drive the car I have a permanent grin.

W8PMC wrote:

peterb wrote:Oh, and for a lot of the time, there's an interactive speed limiter sitting to my left!

All i can say is you lucky bugger.

You can have the speed limiter on extended loan!

I have just had my front discs and pads all round replaced. The total price including labour was £1,203.56 + VAT. The rear discs were perfectly okay.

Just negotiated a cost price part replacement brakes as part of car purchase.

Dealer confirmed they make a 20% on the brake parts, so bear that in mind the next time you purchase. At £1200 - 1500 depending on which option you take worth attempting to negotiate.

I am getting a trusted mechanic to change them over, don't see the point in paying Audi's £100+VAT approx per hour fee for ordinary grunt work.

Guys - is there any reason why the parts are not bought from VAG-Parts and fitted by yourselves?

Personally no, but time is normally the issue as my mechanic friend can turn around the job in about 1/4 the time it takes me

Haven't had any dealer BS about warranty bla bla in the past but it was said to my wife once. They were trying it on too, the brakes on her A4 cab had loads left on them.

There's a full set of brand new drilled discs & pads on ebay. All boxed up and being sold by a power seller so legit I would think ...

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll? ... Track=true

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