MK5 Golf GTI

All Things Mk5 => Mk5 General Area => Topic started by: StevenW007 on May 30, 2011, 07:37:38 pm

Title: Edition 30 brakes
Post by: StevenW007 on May 30, 2011, 07:37:38 pm: I'm new to the foum but joined after purchasing a BMP editon 30 2 weeks ago. Already spent hours and hours checking out topics for inspiration. Anyway the 4th year service is due along with the MOT and I reckon the brakes will fail. I'm looking to find decently priced discs and pads. Now after searching on here and other forums I believe that the Edtion 30 brakes are identical to the standard MKV GTI being 312mm up front and 286mm at the back.

Can anyone recommend any discs and pads? Looking to spend as little as possible at the moment. I have seen Mintext discs and pads on the bay but i'm not 100% sure if these are the right ones. Can anyone confirm this for me http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/GOLF-MK5-2-0GTI-04-FRONT-REAR-MINTEX-BRAKE-DISCS-PAD-/300526593518?pt=UK_CarsParts_Vehicles_CarParts_SM&hash=item45f8c7e5ee (http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/GOLF-MK5-2-0GTI-04-FRONT-REAR-MINTEX-BRAKE-DISCS-PAD-/300526593518?pt=UK_CarsParts_Vehicles_CarParts_SM&hash=item45f8c7e5ee)

Any help would be much appreciated.

Cheers

Ste
Title: Re: Edition 30 brakes
Post by: Greeners on May 30, 2011, 07:39:53 pm: Plenty on here have upgraded to S3 brakes so may be worth you putting an ad in the wanted section! :happy2:
Title: Re: Edition 30 brakes
Post by: Beddie on May 30, 2011, 07:42:37 pm: The description and the pictures on the ebay link do appear to be the correct ones for the ED30 :happy2:
Title: Re: Edition 30 brakes
Post by: adamf on May 30, 2011, 11:23:21 pm: What about these... In for sale section...

http://www.mk5golfgti.co.uk/forum/index.php/topic,30200.0.html
Title: Re: Edition 30 brakes
Post by: Poppa Dom on May 30, 2011, 11:55:38 pm: 4th year service can be a boggy - has the cam belt been done, what is the mileage? DSG or manual?
Title: Re: Edition 30 brakes
Post by: StevenW007 on May 31, 2011, 06:04:12 pm: Thanks for the help chaps. Don't really want to upgrade the brakes at this stage so gonna stick with the standard set up for now.

Cars done 29K, manual and no the cambelt hasn't been done yet. Going to go for the VW 2 year service plan as that seems like a good deal at £349. Just wondering though it says that the service plan is 2 years and you get free MOTs for the duration of the plan so I was thinking of being cheeky and trying to squeeze 3 MOTs out of them in 2 years. I can imagine they would argue but I can't see anywhere where it states the number of MOTs permitted. Simply says free MOTs for duration of service plan so if the plan is 730 days I can squeeze the third one in before thats up :happy2:

DOMT I got your PM via email and thanks for the offer but i'm in Manchester so miles away from you. Can't read or access my PMs so I guess thats due to me being a new member with low posts. Think I missed out of some pescaras for sale on here due to not being able to post of the topic as well :sad1:
Title: Re: Edition 30 brakes
Post by: Frodo-anni on May 31, 2011, 06:06:10 pm: Recognise the forum name from uk-mkivs - did you used to have a black anni?
Title: Re: Edition 30 brakes
Post by: StevenW007 on May 31, 2011, 07:09:50 pm: Yeah I did used to have a black 25th anniversary edition. Sold it last week. Want to get this one in mint condition ideally. Going to order 4 new michelins tomorrow, credit card is taking some hits this month.

You have silver ani don't you and I believe your looking to move over to the edition 30 too? (Sure I read a post of yours recently)
Title: Re: Edition 30 brakes
Post by: StevenW007 on June 01, 2011, 11:24:32 pm: Got the new brakes fitted all round today. I know I need to bed them in and take it easy with the braking for the time being but whats the process for this and for how long? Also got my MOT coming up in 2 weeks, will the fact that they are brand new brakes cause any issues?

Ste
Title: Re: Edition 30 brakes
Post by: DaveR77 on June 02, 2011, 08:22:01 am: Did you get those Mintex ones, let us know if they're any good
Title: Re: Edition 30 brakes
Post by: steffan on June 02, 2011, 04:29:08 pm: hi
i`m new here also...try ATE Power Discs and Ferrodo DS 2500 pads...i have this on my car (Golf 5 GTI) and it is different from the stock brakes.
Title: Re: Edition 30 brakes
Post by: Frodo-anni on June 03, 2011, 10:47:42 pm: Quote from: StevenW007 on May 31, 2011, 07:09:50 pm
Yeah I did used to have a black 25th anniversary edition. Sold it last week. Want to get this one in mint condition ideally. Going to order 4 new michelins tomorrow, credit card is taking some hits this month.

You have silver ani don't you and I believe your looking to move over to the edition 30 too? (Sure I read a post of yours recently)

:happy2: Yep, indeed after 5 years of the anni, im looking for an ED30, however finding a decent one is hard at the moment, guess im just picky as im wanting a high spec, xenons, highline, MFSW... not to bothered by colour, but least favourite is black.

Any suggestions of places to look, apart from the norm ie trader, pistonheads...PM me so as not to fill up your post. cheers