[marshy]

Mine has had the upgraded parts fitted and in the 1200 miles I've done so far they've been perfect!
Oh and silent.

[Duke3D]

Well the Yellowstuff didn't even last 100 miles before the squealing started....
Pulled the pads yesterday this is what I found.


So I'm done with any type of 'stuff' pads, seem to spend more time taking wheels off than actually driving the car.

New oem pads on front and rear now

I'm done with it.......


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Are you sure your discs aren't sh@gged which is knackering the pads? I fitted Redstuff on the front at the same time as new Audi disks and they have been perfect since. I know you said you tried the Yellows as the Reds weren't working for you but I don't remember seeing what problems you were having. Squealing still I assume. If you had original Audi pads on the disc first I would recommend getting them skimmed first, (if they are fairly new and not heavily scored), to ensure there are no high spots or lamination caused by the sh1te Audi pads. If you have had problems with 2 sets of EBC pads then the discs would be my guess.

[Jmcnamee98]

New RS3 basically has the Generic RS front setup, brembo 8 piston calipers with wavy 365mm discs or ceramics. There have been some instances of squeal on the RS4 and RS5 but nothing as bad as the TTRS and more so on the RS3.

[Duke3D]

Well I can understand your reasons now, too much time wasted swapping pads and not getting a final solution. To date the Redstuff on my car haven't shown anything like what you had but I will keep a check on the disks just in case. Thanks for heads up.

[P_G]

Wow, there are some chunks of pad material missing there. I've never seen a set of EBC pads like that. The yellowstuffs I had on the previous RS4 were faultless so sorry to see that has happened, I'll keep a check on mine when they are fitted next week.

Edited by P_G, 15 March 2015 - 08:54 PM.

[Duke3D]

Yeah I am sure they will want to find out why the Yellows broke up like that at the least.

[Roy]

Errrm thought you had had enough and the OEM ones were staying in ?????

 

good luck mate hope it gets sorted 

[P_G]

He's doing this for the good of the RS3 community Roy, shhh

[CarrG]

Bet you can change them blindfolded! :-)

[marshy]

I know you've been told that the condition looks fine on your pads.
I'm not sure why they say that, but looking at where the pad has broken away I can't understand why they say it?
Surely if that pad got any worse there wouldn't be any material left as its already lost a chunk.

I've been in the motor trade for over 20 years and if I stripped your brakes I'd of said those pads were for the bin!
On first look they look like a set of pads that have been overheated and cracked and broke up, no matter how much bedding in is done on those pads your never going to get the material back that's missing.

Just my opinion and not trying to upset or contradict what you've been told, I'm only looking at a picture you have them infront of you.

[Roy]

I was not having a "pop" at V man ,you may have read I hoped he got it all sorted....................

 

I was just making an observation 

[Duke3D]

He also said that the yellowstuff are different in that they should look horrendous (i.e full of craters and not smooth) he said the worse they look the better they are working ........

 

Ahem.. to quote del-boy:

 

 Can you smell that? What is that? Sheep is it? It's cows? No, no, I know what it is. It's bullshit!

[Duke3D]

That was aimed at EBC btw not you. I think you have enough problems swapping pads like a demon without me adding to them. 😄

[Jmcnamee98]

Come on Audi your brake fix doesn't work and you have as much as admitted the brakes on the MKI RS3 are inadequate by fitting wavy discs and 8 pots or optional ceramics to the MKII RS3 ...

How about those brakes for MKI RS3 owners?

veneeringman good work on your persistence trying to find an alternative pad top marks. I'm loosing patience but keep telling myself at least I've been getting free brakes out of Audi.

[red14]

JM I was going to say exactly the same thing earlier today but thought it must have been done before.

 

One can only wonder about how much goodwill Audi have wasted never mind the vast cost of the brake replacement exercise. Surely it would have been more sensible to cut and run with a better idea early on. Then again what would we have left to talk about? 

 

My car is currently in for a check (back tomorrow) but "no fault found" so as with you I'll just keep going back as it's under warranty.

(FYI they are also checking out the "steam" issuing from the front grille as mentioned elsewhere, again - nothing wrong!)

 

I have to say the dog of an A5 quattro coupe diesel they gave me has far, far better brakes and for a much heavier car it gives good feel at least on initial application. It's very over-servoed though. And that's plain old ventilated discs. Is it possible Audi invented a problem by being too damn clever?

Edited by red14, 18 March 2015 - 09:49 AM.

[Pat]

If my car ever sees the road before we all are too old, dementia'd, blind or just plain dead then your all welcome to test out my brakes to see what you think....I only drove mine for a couple of weeks before it got chopped so I can't really comment on how good I found them...I tried for a new set of brakes off Audi but previous owner had had non genuine pads fitted so they told me no could do with new set. I didn't push it as like I say they were mainly to just sell on
Are you lot getting new discs off Audi even with EBCs fitted or have I gone thread blind and mis understood

Cracking info though and a great read

Edited by Pat, 17 March 2015 - 11:05 PM.

[Jmcnamee98]

AP do have a drilled option that can be supplied by DaveB Vagbremtechnic or APS pictured here;

 

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Tarox have a number of disc finishes for the RS3 including a bespoke 'D95' drilled disc which would match the originals pictured here;

 

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As these are from there 'bespoke' range I don't see why they couldn't make 310 mm or even 335 mm 2 piece rears to match I have sent them an inquiry.

 

 

[Roy]

Can we all complain to Audi in mass, or all sign a letter written by someone more literate than I ?

 

Just an Idea

[Paul]

Or a choreographed approach on Audi Facebook page ?

[Vito]

Just wanted to mention, I had fitted about 6 months ago, the Pagids RS4-2 pads , the same ones that come with the AP discs kit supplied by DaveB, they totally transformed the brakes, they are still working perfectly, but they do squeal as well....