Service due on the S8

[Adrian E]

My service indicator went very quickly from flashing 300 miles till due (no warning I noticed before that!) to now just saying 'Service!' so it's going in next week. Looking back it's exactly a year since it was last done and the mileage hasn't factored into it.

Ordered 10 litres of Fuchs Titan Race Pro S 5W-40 which is just under 90 quid delivered from Opie Oils.

Decided to replace the rear discs and pads as they've always looked crusty and now the pads are fairly worn I feel I should finally do it. Rang the dealer who quoted £54 each for discs and £44 for pads, incl VAT.

Rang Murrays Direct, who I often bang on about their good product range for VAG, and they are doing me rear discs made by Meyle at £22 each. Apparently their Platinum range which these are, are salt water corrosion tested for 2 years so should stay looking good for years. Pads are Bosch (made in Italy) at £17 a set.

Need to check what was done last year, as can't remember exactly. Think it had brake fluid and all the filters so may not need much else this year.

Car is still for sale if anyone is tempted I've started my racing season for toy cars and could do with the cash to spend on that!

Adrian

[David's8]

The oil you are using certainly has good reviews on the Opie site although, interestingly, I note that it is not included (under the Fuchs or Silkolene name) on the attached AudiTechnical Service Bulletin (dated June 2011). The tech spec is not available off the Opie site but I guess it does meet/surpass the appropriate oil quality standards?

[David's8]

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[Singh]

£22 each for rear discs, my rear discs are £3,500 + VAT each.

[Adrian E]

Originally Posted by David's8

The oil you are using certainly has good reviews on the Opie site although, interestingly, I note that it is not included (under the Fuchs or Silkolene name) on the attached AudiTechnical Service Bulletin (dated June 2011). The tech spec is not available off the Opie site but I guess it does meet/surpass the appropriate oil quality standards?

Hiya

Yes I had a long debate with myself on whether to use because it's not on Audi's approved list. I decided it wasn't an issue since there's absolutely no hope whatsoever on cars of our age of Audi giving any goodwill whatsoever if an engine failure occurs, so went for the quality of the product rather than the specs it's been tested to.

I have no doubt it would meet the tests required for approval if Fuchs chose to submit it, but can understand there's little incentive to do so.

The oil is popular with the RS crowd as it offers much better protection for the turbo under hard use.

My car hasn't required a single drop of oil to top it up between annual services. Interestingly our A6 didn't seem to like it so much, so I've gone back to Castrol Edge for that.

[Adrian E]

Originally Posted by Singh

£22 each for rear discs, my rear discs are £3,500 + VAT each.

Show off

On a more serious note, I suspect the discs are original at 50-odd k judging by the state of them. The pads are nothing special but seem to have lasted well enough. I'm purely changing them for cosmetic reasons and for a little better balance to the braking I hope. They have a fair lip to them but I haven't got a micrometer to measure the thickness accurately.

Amar - bet your discs don't last 95x as long either lol

[Singh]

'Lifetime of the car' apparently, but where have we heard that before.

Stopping two tons, from 200 MPH 10-15 times the other weekend at Vmax, I was happy to have them, steelies would not have coped.

[Adrian E]

Oil arrived a couple of days ago and brake discs and pads arrived this afternoon

The hands of a 3 year old happen to be in the picture for scale

Discs certainly look nice quality - found some marketing guff online about the corrosion resistance of the discs. Will try and grab a pic of the originals if I remember to tell my mate to keep them for me. Would quite like to clean the lip off and measure the thickness to see how close to 20mm they are.

It's going in Monday and will have an alignment check done too

[Adrian E]

Service all done - tyres rotated, oil and filter changed, new discs and pads on the back, 4 wheel aligned

Old discs were original, as suspected. Mic'd them at 20.5mm so 3/4 worn according to Audi specs. No longer have the horrid grinding noise at manoeuvring speeds, plus they look a whole lot better!

Total outlay less than £250 so can't complain at that - all good for another year and nothing to report that looks like it'll need attention before then

[rs32]

that's a cracking price for service bits, will have to check out Murrays offerings