Labour rates and Ceramic brakes

[Andyuk911]

couple of Qs

1. what labour rate does your dealer charge ? Tonbridge Audi told me £99 + VAT

2. Anybody running Ceramic brakes on a RS4 ? Any problems or any idea of costs to replace the pads .. I assume they are the only item that needs replacing.

Thanks

[jeffw]

1. Which is why I go all the way to Banbury (along with the better service at MRC) rather than darken the door of Tonbridge Audi which is 5 miles away from me....not know as Stealers for nothing.

2. Very expensive conversion....I would think that the caliper design would need to be specific for ceramic disks as well as a special pad. The disks are mean't to last though Porsche where having failures at 10K miles I believe.

[SteveH]

Porsche where having failures at 10K miles I believe.

You would be mightilly miffed with that!!!!!

[philipwalker]

Assuming it a V8 RS4?

The pads are £274,17 +vat
The discs as they are £3324,09+ vat each. I would think/hope the discs would be covered under warranty?

4E0 698 151 G Pads
8E0 615 301 AC Left Disc
8E0 615 302 C Right Disc

[JonnyX]

couple of Qs

1. what labour rate does your dealer charge ? Tonbridge Audi told me £99 + VAT

Thanks

Sounds about right and is the reason why I haven't used a dealer for the last 2+
years. There are a few independents who are half the price and know 5 times
as much about these particular cars. It seriously bugs me, it should be illegal
to charge that much......

[jeffw]

£6648.18 + VAT for a set of discs...you could buy a S4 for that ! Madness

[Andyuk911]

Many thanks for the replies ... all very useful..

The brakes to buy(on a new car) are £4,235 and have great benefits for track days ... but could I feel comfortable having to cough up £6+ for new disc ... I don't think so !

[DaveCav]

Assuming it a V8 RS4?

The pads are £274,17 +vat
The discs as they are £3324,09+ vat each. I would think/hope the discs would be covered under warranty?

Nope as my bro found out on his GT2

[Andyuk911]

Dave,

that was scary ... did he not gat any goodwill from Porsche ?

What happened too them ?

BTW ... I meant £6k above

Andy