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Ceramics retrofit
Posted: Sat Jan 17, 2015 2:52 pm
by drhex
Hi,
new on the forum (have been lurking for a bit...). Have recently bought an RS6 4G and decided to retrofit the ceramics. Have all the parts by now but am a bit daunted by the coding requirements. Nobody can really tell me what's needed so far, opinions range from "nothing needed, works just fine" to "big security risk". Does anybody here have an idea about what is coded and how?
Thanks,
Florian
Re: Ceramics retrofit
Posted: Sat Jan 17, 2015 3:15 pm
by Surrey Sam
I have retrofitted Ceramics to my B7 RS4 and all is fine, the 'Tech' is a little more antiquated than your RS6 but it still shouldn't be a problem I'd have thought. I only had to recode 2 modules in doing the retrofit, this was to adjust the pad wipe delay in the rain.
MRC quoted me £286 to swap over from steels to ceramics, yours would be more than that as there is rear brakes to do as well.
Re: Ceramics retrofit
Posted: Sat Jan 17, 2015 4:10 pm
by drhex
Thanks for your response, that's what I thought - just need the actual coding to be done. Would think that there is somone out there who knows what to do

!
Florian
Re: Ceramics retrofit
Posted: Sun Jan 18, 2015 11:55 am
by LittleDevil
Sam question here, can you guys who have RS6 C7/4G make scan of ABS module and write if you have steel brake or ceramic, would really like to compare it.
Thanks
Re: Ceramics retrofit
Posted: Sun Jan 18, 2015 2:41 pm
by Surrey Sam
LittleDevil wrote:Sam question here, can you guys who have RS6 C7/4G make scan of ABS module and write if you have steel brake or ceramic, would really like to compare it.
Thanks
I don't own an RS6 unfortunately.

Re: Ceramics retrofit
Posted: Sun Jan 18, 2015 8:37 pm
by kent_andy
On such a car if take it Mrc or unit 20 personally. I doubt many if any have retrofitted onto a c7 being such a fresh car
Re: Ceramics retrofit
Posted: Sun Jan 18, 2015 8:47 pm
by LittleDevil
kent_andy wrote:On such a car if take it Mrc or unit 20 personally. I doubt many if any have retrofitted onto a c7 being such a fresh car
There is many people who retrofit ceramic brakes on S6/RS6 C7 and S7/RS7 already. I know at least 8 guys who did that.

Re: Ceramics retrofit
Posted: Sun Jan 18, 2015 9:39 pm
by kent_andy
LittleDevil wrote:kent_andy wrote:On such a car if take it Mrc or unit 20 personally. I doubt many if any have retrofitted onto a c7 being such a fresh car
There is many people who retrofit ceramic brakes on S6/RS6 C7 and S7/RS7 already. I know at least 8 guys who did that.

Wow, I stand corrected
Re: Ceramics retrofit
Posted: Mon Jan 19, 2015 2:07 am
by drhex
Did all of them skimp on the coding then?
Re: Ceramics retrofit
Posted: Tue Jan 20, 2015 5:00 pm
by drhex
OK, seems noone has an idea? Can you maybe post the coding of your ABS then? If we get enough info we may be able to deduce something.
Mine:
Address 03: ABS Brakes (J104) Labels: 4G0-907-379.clb
Part No SW: 4G0 907 379 P HW: 4G0 907 379 P
Component: ESP PREMIUM H09 0100
Revision: -------- Serial number: --------------
Coding: 62B7DB0146EDDB80CB00
Shop #: WSC 02391 785 00200
ASAM Dataset: EV_ESPPremiAU57X 004036
ROD: EV_ESPPremiAU57X.rod
VCID: 3E78E3E9A10202D15D7-806B
Thanks!
Re: Ceramics retrofit
Posted: Thu Jan 22, 2015 12:19 am
by Graeme4130
Surrey Sam wrote:I have retrofitted Ceramics to my B7 RS4 and all is fine, the 'Tech' is a little more antiquated than your RS6 but it still shouldn't be a problem I'd have thought. I only had to recode 2 modules in doing the retrofit, this was to adjust the pad wipe delay in the rain.
MRC quoted me £286 to swap over from steels to ceramics, yours would be more than that as there is rear brakes to do as well.
It's fronts only on c7, no ?
Out of interest, drhex, what was the cost of the parts ?
Re: Ceramics retrofit
Posted: Thu Jan 22, 2015 12:46 am
by drhex
No, all round.
About 8.000,-€. All new but front disks. LittleDevil can help if you're interested.
Re: Ceramics retrofit
Posted: Thu Jan 22, 2015 8:44 am
by kent_andy
Not sure if this helps, but my c6 ceramics are about to be retrofitted, fronts and rears, and virdee who is fitting them needs to code the abs, David (classba) did the same and kept the coding so maybe ask virdee??
Re: Ceramics retrofit
Posted: Thu Jan 22, 2015 11:58 am
by drhex
C6 has another ABS with short coding to my knowledge. Are you just changing coding there or in other places as well? Heard that airbag needs changing, too.
Florian
Re: Ceramics retrofit
Posted: Thu Jan 22, 2015 3:27 pm
by kent_andy
nope, just changing that coding. classba did the same and his has been good of gold.