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Offline gizzywizzy

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« on: 03 September 2010, 23:43 »
This evening whilst heading home a bloody great big fat badger waddled out in front of me, now being an  animal lover I couldn't bear the thought of running poor old Brock down so I slammed on the brakes.  What rubbish, instead of stopping the car immediately they had a few seconds of travel in them which could have meant the end of Brock if I had not swerved slightly out of his way.

Anyone else have this with their brakes and if so is it a serviceable thing as the car was only in at the beginning of August for it's 1 year service and they never mentioned the brakes.
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Offline endy

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Re: Brakes
« Reply #1 on: 04 September 2010, 01:49 »
i would never expect to come to an immediate stop with any car really..how fast were you going?

also i think the brake pads get changed on the 3rd year of service

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Re: Brakes
« Reply #2 on: 04 September 2010, 07:58 »
It was probably the anti lock feature, was there a shuddering through the brake pedal when you braked?

It is an annoying feature, but nothing to worry about

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Re: Brakes
« Reply #3 on: 04 September 2010, 08:16 »
It was probably the anti lock feature, was there a shuddering through the brake pedal when you braked?

It is an annoying feature, but nothing to worry about

Yes that was exactly what happened.  Thanks I can live with that.
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Re: Brakes
« Reply #4 on: 04 September 2010, 08:16 »
i would never expect to come to an immediate stop with any car really..how fast were you going?

also i think the brake pads get changed on the 3rd year of service

No more than 40 at that time.
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Re: Brakes
« Reply #5 on: 05 September 2010, 11:35 »
All mk6s I've driven have the most overservoed brakes I've ever come accross. I've just got to breathe on my brakes and my airbags nearly deploy. I always had doubts about the brakes on my mk5 though, which is more or less the same system as the mk6.
Could be one of a few things Gizzy but before you go visit your dealer maybe try using your brakes quite hard a few times as the pads may have glazed if you've only been driving the car very gently and taking it easy on the brakes for a while.

[random comment mode]Took my car in for a service on Saturday and they had a black mk6 GTI waiting for collection. Looked gorgeous in the flesh and the first black one I've seen. Lo and behold I saw another whilst driving back home again, black really does look perfect with the Monza Shadows[/random comment mode]
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Re: Brakes
« Reply #6 on: 05 September 2010, 22:57 »
All mk6s I've driven have the most overservoed brakes I've ever come accross. I've just got to breathe on my brakes and my airbags nearly deploy. I always had doubts about the brakes on my mk5 though, which is more or less the same system as the mk6.
Could be one of a few things Gizzy but before you go visit your dealer maybe try using your brakes quite hard a few times as the pads may have glazed if you've only been driving the car very gently and taking it easy on the brakes for a while.

[random comment mode]Took my car in for a service on Saturday and they had a black mk6 GTI waiting for collection. Looked gorgeous in the flesh and the first black one I've seen. Lo and behold I saw another whilst driving back home again, black really does look perfect with the Monza Shadows[/random comment mode]

Thanks, yeah I've been giving them a few goes over the last few days and there really is quite a lot of travel in them. My previous car had amazing brakes, they stopped the car immediately with no judder.  Will keep at them for a bit longer and if no improvemen I will go visit the dealer.

Yeah I love my car in the black and the monzas do look really good against the dark paintwork, so thanks for that.

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Re: Brakes
« Reply #7 on: 06 September 2010, 08:47 »
The 312mm brakes are fine for standard GTIs but once remapped I think they suffer which is no suprise. A set of second hand Golf R and R32 brakes (Audi S3, TTS etc use these too?) would be a nice cheapish upgrade  :wink:

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Re: Brakes
« Reply #8 on: 06 September 2010, 18:20 »
Ever thought of uprating the pads and disc's rather than forking out for golf R/R32 brakes? Decided to do that on my vr6 and seems to have been a good decision. But then again my car is a mk3 so not sure my opinion counts here  :rolleyes: :grin:

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Re: Brakes
« Reply #9 on: 06 September 2010, 18:29 »
Ever thought of uprating the pads and disc's rather than forking out for golf R/R32 brakes? Decided to do that on my vr6 and seems to have been a good decision. But then again my car is a mk3 so not sure my opinion counts here  :rolleyes: :grin:

no... it dont!!  :tongue: :grin:


std gti brakes are a little poor tbh. go with s3 or r32 brakes as said above :nerd: