288mm 4x100 brake discs. Any ideas anyone?

[monzablue16v]

Got some late VR brakes to go on the Golf but would like to stay 4x100 rather than change to 5x100 so does anyone know where I can find myself some 288mm 4x100 brake discs that will have the same offset and centre hole size as the VR setup? seen a couple on vaux sites from a google but the centre bore looks a different size.

[pro-biotic]

why not just use the 280 setup?

[VR6_ROB]

why not just use the 280 setup?

just get the g60 setup I used to have it on mine work really good
im running 5x100 288 i wish i stayed with 4 stud not much wheel choice either

[Diamond Hell]

280mm 4*100 FTW.

Getting discs from elsewhere you don't just have to worry about the centre bore, but the offset on the disc, too.

Use a complete set up, which is available off the shelf.

Mixing and matching is a bad idea, as this inbred imbecile will testify.

[monzablue16v]

I already have the 288mm setup you see so instead of paying scene tax for some 280's I was going to use them. Might just go widetrack 5x100 but would need some new wheels then

[Diamond Hell]

Do you have to go widetrack on the 5*100, or can you just bob the hubs on?

[VR6_ROB]

just bolt on I am 5 stud I did not want widetrack got the chew on of changing the axle to match

[pro-biotic]

I already have the 288mm setup you see so instead of paying scene tax for some 280's I was going to use them. Might just go widetrack 5x100 but would need some new wheels then

no need for scene tax, if you have 16v hubs - find an early mk3 gti thay have the same calipers and carriers as a G60

[rubjonny]

trouble with most 5x100 bearing carriers easily available is the offset on the balljoint is further forward/back, so the wheel isnt centred in the arch if you bolt em up to 4 stud wishbones.  You can push 5 stud hubs into 4 stud bearing carriers but then you need to re-drill the discs.

Recently though someone on ed38 mentioned that a 91 passat 5 stud setup will work. Looking into it on ETKA they use the normal 4 stud hub carriers with a passat specific 5 stud hub and brake disc.  I assume this disc would work when pressing a MK3 5stud hub into a 4 stud bearing carrier, but this I have not tried.

back to the op, you could swap your setup for an early MK3 280 setup without much trouble I bet, then sopurce a pair of passat 4 stud 256mm front hubs, again scene tax free

[ozegti]

The closest I found was 283mm on a citroen Xantia td. 4x100 but not sure about centre bore.