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I had a friend with those 11” rears on his mk3. Nice upgrade when paired with his 312 Brembo boxsters.
Pros: Nice upgrade
Vehicle:
Volkswagen Golf
I've been running the brembos with ss lines, wildwood MC, stoptech rotors, hawk pads and dot 4 for years. And I run hard. 0 issues.
Pros: zero issues, reliable performance
Vehicle:
Nissan
I’ve rebuilt the front calipers, upgraded the rears to MK4 callipers, new pads and rotors, new proportioning valve, TT stainless brake lines.
Pros: new pads and rotors
Vehicle:
Volkswagen Corrado
Very common issue with Brembo calipers across brands. Basically, the galvanized bolt loses its coating and here you are.
I have done both the front and rear Golf R swap on mine. Tiguan rears are 300x11mm solid discs, Golf R are 310x22mm vented discs. Rears bolt right up, only thing to be aware of is you need to swap the electric ebrake motors from your stock calipers over, as the R calipers do not include them.
Pros: rears bolt right up
Cons: ebrake motors swap needed
Vehicle:
Volkswagen Tiguan
I ended up going with the CTSV brembo front brake swap from CTSVbrakeswap. It comes with two 4 pot brembo calipers and a mounting bracket. You’ll have to drill into the knuckle to account for the bigger top bolt the brembo uses and tap the bottom hole. Overall though the braking kicks ass and bites much, much harder than stock with little to no brake fade after 5+ stops.
Pros: harder braking, no brake fade
Cons: requires modification
Vehicle:
Subaru
Yep, got them on yesterday. Pretorias will need 15mm spacer, not 10mm as I originally measured. They feel so much better than PP. So easy to modulate. Worth every penny.
Pros: easy to modulate
2018 Tiguan w/181k miles...purchased new. Overall the motor has held up no issues other than wiring harness. I never go beyond 10k miles for oil changes and 80k miles for trans oil. I had to replace a rear brake electronic module and a few months later one of the rear calipers.
Pros: motor has held up
Cons: slow get up and go
Vehicle:
Volkswagen Tiguan
Mileage: 291292 km
Jeez I paid $350 for my brembos to be rebuilt, plus an extra 50 to have the scratches filed out that I made trying to get the pistons out myself :x
Cons: difficult to rebuild
I had lots of issues with my OEM M3 brakes. Not only did they overheat within a few laps regardless of pads and fluid, but also the feel was bad. Hard to modulate, squishy pedal, just no bueno. The OEM ones are single piston floating calipers. Bad.
Upgrade to Brembo 4 piston and even with cheap pads on the same rotors the pedal is way nicer, predictable, and is way easier to threshold brake.
Pros: better pedal feel, predictable braking
Cons: overheating, bad feel, squishy pedal
Vehicle:
BMW
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