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Model specific boards => Golf mk2 => Topic started by: Harvemk2 on 28 March 2006, 14:33

Title: Brakes!!!
Post by: Harvemk2 on 28 March 2006, 14:33

Will mk2 pads fit in mk3 calipers? I've heard that mk3 calipers are a direct replacement but was just wondering if the pads are the same??? Cheers.

Title: Re: Brakes!!!
Post by: rubjonny on 28 March 2006, 14:41

front or rear, which MK3 & MK2 etc :)

Title: Re: Brakes!!!
Post by: Harvemk2 on 28 March 2006, 15:05

Rear,  from mk3 gti anniversary I think onto mk2 gti 16v.

Title: Re: Brakes!!!
Post by: kkh120 on 28 March 2006, 15:13

I think the brakes on the rear of both Mk2 and Mk3 are 226mm. Pads should be a direct fit.

Title: Re: Brakes!!!
Post by: rubjonny on 28 March 2006, 15:33

92-93 are the same (rear calipers are identical to MK2 ones) but from 93 the pads are different, as are the calipers.  The design was changed with an internal spring to prevent them siezing up.

Title: Re: Brakes!!!
Post by: ...joe on 28 March 2006, 16:25

^^ you sure? i used mk2 pads on my mk4 brakes when i put them on the rear?

Title: Re: Brakes!!!
Post by: rubjonny on 28 March 2006, 16:42

They're defo thicker, but that doesn't mean the shape changed if you get me?

Title: Re: Brakes!!!
Post by: ...joe on 28 March 2006, 22:11

gotcha! got a bit worried then that i'd been drving around for a few years with dodgy rear brakes! not that the rears do much anyway! :laugh: