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Erm, back to our regularly scheduled programme...
Brakes this week - cleaned up the discs as although they were very rusty from sitting for three years, they're actually barely worn. Forgot to get any pics. These are the rebuilt calipers ready to go back on with TRW pads. Interesting note - these are £45 a set and drop straight in to the calipers with no filing the edges down. I evaporusted the rear brackets and hardlines and repainted both with rustoleum Back on the car with one of the cleaned discs Still missing one critical part due to a slight disagreement with the supplier Hopefully the hoses will be here tomorrow so I can get the system bled. |
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Regarding the TRW pads - did you fit these because they go in nicely or they’re particularly good pads? I’d love to find a make of pads with a bit more bite if anyone has any recommendations.
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2002 Final Edition S8. Ebony black with Silver Grey leather and myrtle wood trim. Current mods: solar sun roof, 20mm rear spacers, 15 mm on front, red brembo callipers, 6k headlights, rear view camera, engine remap, alloy dash dial rings, alloy navi rings, tt/phaeton pedal upgrade, (and custom matching foot rest) dension ipod interface & parrot hands free kit (both fully hidden), av input, tv in motion switched thro' PF switch in blanking plug right of steering column, Audi 'quattro' sill covers, repositioned centre console switches, radio clock, .Planned mods: auto-dimming rear view mirror, dash cam (as steamship's), fit the ski hatch, refit philips drl's (or maybe not - nope, definitely not - horrible botch!). |
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I've used TRW on other cars and found them to be satisfactory - not particularly special, just good quality pads from an OE manufacturer at sensible prices. In this case, its because I have been very disappointed with Pagid and Brembo in this fitment (both from ECP so who knows what chinesium crap they actually were) and so I figured TRW were worth a try in a D2 (and because I can buy them from somewhere that isn't ECP). The fact that they actually fit the calipers is a pleasant surprise because they're the first pads I found to do so straight out of the box. Since these are rebuilt calipers and we'll have fresh fluid, pads, hoses, relatively fresh discs, and a brake block, this one is probably going to be as good as S8 Brembos get so I am interested to see how it behaves.
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Is the whole "filing down the pad" issue not just down to the corrosion build up behind the stainless steel slide plates?
A couple of years ago I removed the plates on mine (no easy), cleaned off the corrosion and now the pads fit nicely. I've tried Pagid, Brembo and original OEM to see if there was any improvement in the braking but there didn't seem to be. All slid in easily enough though.
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I rebuilt the calipers on my grey S8 and had the plates sitting as flat as they could be, and still couldn't get any pads to fit properly. They all jam up, they all squeal, and braking is always terrible, which is why they are going in the bin in the spring. Maybe I just put too much paint on them
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What doesn't help if you're cleaning the plates as a DIY exercise as they're a really random T27 size, which is rarely included in DIY tool sets. Luckily one of my sets had them.
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