Identifying Brembo brakes

[IanH755]

The AP discs initially are the same price as the OEM discs as you have to by 2 Rotors (£300 each) and 2 Hats/Bolts (£100 each) which to have to bolt together yourself to make a completed set of discs, but then after than you only need replacement rotors so £600 vs the £800+ of OEM.

However, you can often get good deals on OEM parts that bring the price right down whilst the AP stuff stays fairly fixed in price.

Also, the Brembo pads you chose will fit F&R no problem as they are the OEM pads minus the Audi banding.

[jbourne]

Nice. Thanks for that info.

Where does the OEM stuff ever go on sale? I've been trolling various links but can't seem to ever find it cheaper... maybe eBay, but that's about it, at least from what I've found.

[Jim Haseltine]

Occasionally one or other of the motor factors here will do Pagid (the OEM) discs with a good discount but I suspect what you'd save would be swallowed by the shipping costs. I'm not on APs yet because when I was getting towards needing front discs ECP ran a 50% discount so I bought a car set.

[jbourne]

I'll have to keep an eye out. It looks like there's a 50% sale at ECP right now, in fact... but they're still £1050 each before discount, so £1050 for a pair with their sale... that _seems_ excessive, no? Or am I still misguided about just how much wearables cost for this thing?

[IanH755]

I'll have to keep an eye out. It looks like there's a 50% sale at ECP right now, in fact... but they're still £1050 each before discount, so £1050 for a pair with their sale... that _seems_ excessive, no? Or am I still misguided about just how much wearables cost for this thing?

Welcome to RS Tax

The 50% off price is good, usually they're £800-ish for front discs only. In fact there's quite a few item's that are £1k, tyres, brakes etc.

[Stiggles]

I'll have to keep an eye out. It looks like there's a 50% sale at ECP right now, in fact... but they're still £1050 each before discount, so £1050 for a pair with their sale... that _seems_ excessive, no? Or am I still misguided about just how much wearables cost for this thing?

Have a look on car parts 4 less, same company as ecp but cheaper, for whatever reason ecp seem to charge twice what cp4l charge on these particular discs, everything else is usually within 10% of each other.

However even though they're cheaper the AP stuff is probably a better investment regardless of price, for driving hard as Ian had mentioned previously

[jbourne]

Yeah, noted on the AP, I agree it's probably a smarter idea.

Dumb question, but the Brembo pads I found - will they have the "wrong" mounting hardware if I buy them, say, from the US, where there's no RS6 and they market them as fitting AMG G/GTR and a few others?

[Jim Haseltine]

Don't know about Brembo, but all the pads I've bought for the RS had no fittings.

[welwynnick]

Some cars run without all-over disc shields. They just cover the bottom half of the disc, up to the calliper. The top half is left exposed. Therefore it may be OK to cut of a large portion of the stock plate.

You want air to cool the discs, and wherever it comes from, you can never guarantee that air won't carry water and dirt.

I've had several cars like that, and had few problems. In my experience, the worst threat to disc durability is cross-drilling.

Nick