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I’ve beat the shit outta my z36 ones and they’ve held up great.
Pros: held up great
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 installed the full power stop kit, drilled and slotted with the extreme pads and red powder coated calipers. All work very well and still look good after 13k miles or so.
Pros: work very well, look good
Mileage: 13000 km
Can vouch for the MkIV rear conversion w/ Passat lines, did mine last year after OE calipers siezed. Good and cheap upgrade.
Pros: Good and cheap upgrade
I had a MK3 GTI VR6 that that happened to. I went thru several e-brake cables. Finally figured out the calipers were steel and they would seize up from rust. I swapped them out for some aluminum ones from a MK4 and the problem was solved forever.
Pros: problem solved forever
Cons: calipers seize up from rust
Vehicle:
Volkswagen
It's a known problem with knocking brakes on the off rear of B6 passats. To fix, remove the caliper, pull out the top and bottom did pins and half fill with a heavy grease or copper grease into the holes the slide pins slide on, refit and no more noise! Just did mine last week.
Pros: no more noise
Vehicle:
Volkswagen Passat B6
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
Just wanted to update this thread. I too have a 2013 vw beetle. I originally put on the mk5 r32 front calipers which was rubbing on my rims. They were squeaky and the brake response was way too much when just pulling out when first started.
Pros: dust cover works perfectly
Cons: rubbing on rims, squeaky
Vehicle:
Volkswagen Beetle
My power stop calipers rotted out internally after a year. Had new brake fluid and everything yet they broke
Cons: calipers rotted out internally
I put a set of GLI calipers & rotors on when someone else upgraded. Really didn't notice a big difference, both in weight or stopping power.
Cons: no big difference
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