Mk5 R32 Brake upgrade.

[Komenda]

They look a bit square to be fronts, have you compared them to the ones on your car?

[Bolle]

After looking at the pic, it looks that these are rear brakes to be honest.

Looking at some pics from an eBay auction on R32 front brakes http://cgi.ebay.de/Golf-5-R32-Bremsanlage-komplett-Vorderachse_W0QQitemZ170212427541QQcmdZViewItem, these look different.






Or the identical S3 frontbrake kit http://cgi.ebay.de/Audi-S3-8P-Bremsanlage-A3-8P-8PA-auch-Golf-5-V-Bremsen_W0QQitemZ150237542263QQcmdZViewItem


The R32 kit I missed out on http://cgi.ebay.de/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=330226928658&ssPageName=ADME:X:RTQ:DE:1123

[182_blue]

After looking at the pic, it looks that these are rear brakes to be honest.

Looking at some pics from an eBay auction on R32 front brakes http://cgi.ebay.de/Golf-5-R32-Bremsanlage-komplett-Vorderachse_W0QQitemZ170212427541QQcmdZViewItem, these look different.



Or the identical S3 frontbrake kit http://cgi.ebay.de/Audi-S3-8P-Bremsanlage-A3-8P-8PA-auch-Golf-5-V-Bremsen_W0QQitemZ150237542263QQcmdZViewItem

The s3 kit looks better imo , the R32 are one single large pot like my old ST ones, if there that good maybe i should have kept them instead of selling them so cheap LOL

[Bolle]

AFAIK the S3/R32/Cupra brakes are identical apart from color.
They're single pot and not the best brakes out there, but a relatively affordable OEM upgrade from the not-so-great GTI setup

[Hurdy]

I noticed that article too, he did have bigger 12pots which caused too much dust or something - says the R32's are fine.

I also used Euro Car parts for my brake pads when VW didnt have any UK stock and I needed some, genunie stamped parts cheaper

I'm hoping the 10 pots I've ordered are better dust-wise. The 12 pots have much larger pads (almost double that of the R32 ones) and so shed quite a bit of dust, whereas the 10 pots have around 50% more. I'll live with the dust if the brakes are as good as I've been told

[182_blue]

i had 6 pots on my old car and dust was better than the standard brakes TBH

[Komenda]

I'm hoping the 10 pots I've ordered are better dust-wise. The 12 pots have much larger pads (almost double that of the R32 ones) and so shed quite a bit of dust, whereas the 10 pots have around 50% more. I'll live with the dust if the brakes are as good as I've been told

10 Pots, are you planning on re'arranging your internal organs  I assume they're a small piston design?

[Hurdy]

I'm hoping the 10 pots I've ordered are better dust-wise. The 12 pots have much larger pads (almost double that of the R32 ones) and so shed quite a bit of dust, whereas the 10 pots have around 50% more. I'll live with the dust if the brakes are as good as I've been told

10 Pots, are you planning on re'arranging your internal organs  I assume they're a small piston design?

Yeah, they are small pistons in TAROX calipers.
 

[182_blue]

hmm, you do need to ba careful with to many pots, you would probably get better results with 6 pots, but just wouldnt look as good i guess

[Komenda]

Nice. What colour have you gone for. The Gun metal ones would look nice on your car.