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Brake caliper WILWOOD or OEM Volkswagen
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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
I put willwoods on my track/autox supercharged NB. They are great, the extra grab, and need to use less pressure is great. I highly suggest the upgrade.
Pros: great grab, less pressure
Vehicle:
Mazda
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
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
Replacing my Wilwoods b/c I dont race (yet) and don't want to maintain them every 10k miles.
Cons: high maintenance
Vehicle:
Volkswagen Corrado
Mileage: 10000 km
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
ultimately you will need a new caliper, because the parking brake mechanism ins't rebuildable by itsself. It's a common vw problem, actually, both my parking mech's are seized. just don't use the e-brake. and don't buy a rebuilt caliper - they never last.
Cons: parking mech's are seized
Vehicle:
Volkswagen
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