Recent content by Swaffie

Again sorry for the delay guys! I still havent been able to get anything done so far. @COSTA_P: Yes, i had to mill down a bit of the inside of the disk to make some clearance so it woudn't hit the bottom ball joint. I still prefer this to a spacer. With a spacer your wheel will come out more...

Sorry for the delay guys, i havent been able to get anything done on my car last days. I finished the drawing but i want to know it is 100% correct before i leave it online. Next week i hope the finish the work and solve the scraping problem.

I think it is exactly the problem with the joints you are refering to, but i didn't know how to explain that in English :( I allready had to take of a little bit (about 1,5mm) of the inside edge of the braking part of the disk. With that the scraping sound was gone for 95%. Now i only hear it...

I starten drawing it This week, but u also stil have some metalscraping when turning the wheel completely to one side. At this point i am not sure where this is coming from and i do want to fix this before i will give out a drawing of something that might not work like iT should. On the plus...

I was just talking about that on a dutch GTI forum. This week i will try to make one in something like sketchup. I will keep you posted!

Thirst of all, thanks for the help before! Last week i finally had the change to work on the brakes i had at home since november. As promised i hereby show you the work i have done on the RS3 brakes. Together with information on this forum as well on other forums i decided to go for the RS3...

Thanks for your reply and like ;) Next wednesday i'm going to change my summer to wintertires. At that moment i want to check how everything is mounted and if there is enough space for the RS3 disks. Normaly i would have to use TT-RS disks for the GTI, but i can get a complete RS3 kit for a...

Thanks for your reply! The kit i'm offered has allready the Ferodo DS performance pads. Do you think i won't have any problems with those?

First of all i would like to introduce myself: My name is Thijs, 26 years old, living in the Netherlands and driving a 2005 Golf GTI. The reason i'm visiting your forum is that i'm looking for a big brake update for my GTI. I have been offered a complete front brake kit from a RS3, but it is...