brakes question?

[mark-mk3gti]

Just take a pic and show us.

288mm have a thing metal pad spring.
280mm has nothing.

Easy to tell difference just by looking at them

just a pic of the wheel square on? or more of the caliper?

ive just being a bit ingenious as dont wanna go take off a wheel now, as only just got in from work from 7 this morn, so got some wire and fed it around the disc around the middle (so sat on the vents), through the caliper aswell then took the length of wire, lay it down and measured, and got  d = 885/3.14 = 282, 
but the groved bit is slightly smaller diameter than the disc, so in actual fact it isnt conclusive but looks like 280s, haha i hate golfs at times, lol

anyway ill go take a pic just to see what u reckon

edit

[tweed]

You have 280mm

how easy was that 

[mark-mk3gti]

You have 280mm

how easy was that 

Hahaha! Love it! Cheers!

What does a 288 look like then?

I know people say the m reg is the crossover, but mine was reg early 96 so could be a bit of a mixture as well cos could of being made late 95 sometime, I'm guessing,

[gazareth]

if you get yourself a piece of wire like a coat hanger or similar and bend it in to a u shape and stick it through wheel spokes to measure disc. may have to adjust it a few times to get it right. then lay it down carefully and measure gap.

[mark-mk3gti]

For the record if anyone searches, I'm guessing this is a 288 caliper

[mark-mk3gti]

if you get yourself a piece of wire like a coat hanger or similar and bend it in to a u shape and stick it through wheel spokes to measure disc. may have to adjust it a few times to get it right. then lay it down carefully and measure gap.

Good idea that! Better than mine, lol

[tweed]

Yes that is a 288mm