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There is a beautiful white edition RS4 2008 for sale in sweden, and i want to go and look at it. It has 100.000km on the meter - so im just wondering, when is it time for the brake change on the ones with ceramic brakes? Ive been told the price tag on changing the disks are about £4500? True, false?
Thanks

Brakes are what stop your car, break is what your car does when your brakes don't work

In some countries I believe that Audi offer a 150,000km warranty on the ceramic discs.

From recent posts and having covered 100k kilometers they will be a liability IMO and I would allow £5k plus for a new set.

PetrolDave wrote:Brakes are what stop your car, break is what your car does when your brakes don't work

Hahaha sorry, my bad. I thought all the way something wasnt quite right.

Thanks for the info you two!

100km is how many miles??

If its just road use, they will be more than fine...it depends how much hard track use they have had...

62k miles

Audi reckon that the discs are good for 300,000km under normal driving, but as D_K says, this is likely to be a bit shorter if tracked.

In the UK, the ceramic discs retail at about £2100 each. SGL Carbon, who make the discs for Audi (as well as for Porsche and Lambo) state the service life is 150,000 miles. As for wear - they don't wear in the conventional sense, they degrade and loose mass when overheated. So they should really be weighed to determine when they need replacing.

Apologies if this has been covered a million times but, is it a straight forward swap to standard discs on a car fitted with ceramic ones when they are ready for a change?

cheese666 wrote:Apologies if this has been covered a million times but, is it a straight forward swap to standard discs on a car fitted with ceramic ones when they are ready for a change?

I think you will need to change callipers as well as the ceramics are a different diameter. Probably bits of coding to do as well to let the system know you have changed.

cheese666 wrote:Apologies if this has been covered a million times but, is it a straight forward swap to standard discs on a car fitted with ceramic ones when they are ready for a change?

Diferent discs, differnet pads, different calipers, different splash shields.

Audi do an official retro fit kit containing all the bits you need (except the splash shields), including a CD-ROM with a few pdf documents on there. Part number is 8E0 098 203. Make sure a sturdy seat is nearby when asking for the price thou!

Teutonic_Tamer wrote:

cheese666 wrote:Apologies if this has been covered a million times but, is it a straight forward swap to standard discs on a car fitted with ceramic ones when they are ready for a change?

Diferent discs, differnet pads, different calipers, different splash shields.

Audi do an official retro fit kit containing all the bits you need (except the splash shields), including a CD-ROM with a few pdf documents on there. Part number is 8E0 098 203. Make sure a sturdy seat is nearby when asking for the price thou!

TT - Is that not the Ceramic retrofit kit, I read the question as swapping back to the steel setup? From reading your historical posts I see that you're a stickler for correct information, so wouldn't want any duff information out there?