R32 Brake Pads

[XXX-1.8T]

I had EBC's on my A3 and they warped my OEM discs. I was told that the EBC pads are too hard for OEM discs hence why they warped.

I got a set of Pagid Reds and they were awesome great performance and not much dust.

The OEM brakes are killing me with the TT cant wait to swap for my Porsche brakes i got lined up

[Treza360]

I had EBC's on my A3 and they warped my OEM discs. I was told that the EBC pads are too hard for OEM discs hence why they warped.
I got a set of Pagid Reds and they were awesome great performance and not much dust.
The OEM brakes are killing me with the TT cant wait to swap for my Porsche brakes i got lined up

I know of a few people running redstuffs, yellowstuffs and other race pads on various cars and haven't heard anything bad. Redstuffs are recommended for AWD and heavier cars though.
Similar to the Polo brake upgrade thread I'd say the lighter cars like an A3 have issues with being able to keeping a consistent spread of heat across the entire rotor and combined with a harder pad that needs some heat for better performance contributes to warping maybe?
Either way we'll see how we do on our respective setups and report back in a few thousand kms.
Cheers,
Trent

[balkanac]

So just air in the system then?

yup. A lot of air came from the rear left caliper. I did everything twice just to be sure. Im so glad its nothing serious. The only thing i dont get is how did the air get in in the first place??

[geoff_gti]

lucky we spotted the fluid although you'd realised it wasn't right by then... guessing there must have been a leak from when the pads were fitted?

[balkanac]

i think so. I dont think that that little pipe (or whatever its called) that you loosen up when you bleed the brakes was tight enough. Thats probably how the air got in

[geoff_gti]

Did you fit them yourself, or the shop? Hope there's no damage from the excess heat

[balkanac]

there is no damage (touch wood). I did them myself. i've done brakes on all the cars i had and i never had any problems. This car has a brain of its own or it really doesn't like me

[Manaz]

OK, I got the answer from the guy I know on another forum who works with/for Ferodo.

"The pad shape is FDB1765. This is a slightly better than OE material that will more than do the job.

We are currently developing a DS-Performance material that will be available fairly soon (fingers crossed). The part number has already been allocated as FDS1765.

The FDB1765's have a retail of $435. The FDS1765's have a projected cost of about 550-650 retail depending on the exchange rate at the time of order."

I asked about the wear indicators as well, and this was his response:

"Yep, they are an electronic wear indicator. Pretty much 90% of cars out of Europe now run them.

Our backing plates will either have the sensor built into them or they will have the holder on them to put the factory one on to. 90% of the time you reuse the factory sensor as they basically never wear out. They dont need any contact with the rotor to work so they never wear out."

I hope that's useful (it will be useful to me!).

[Bug_racer]

You can buy the R32 brake pad sensor seperately . They are $30 odd from memory

[balkanac]

i reused mine. Pads didnt get to the point there the sensor would touch the rotor

[VDUBD]

you culdve got air in the system when you pushed the pistons in the calipers back, did u take the lid of the brake resi? that coulda caused the prob