newby with a ed30

[pudding]

You haven't experienced crap brakes until you've driven a Corrado or Golf VR6 

[AJP]

You haven't experienced crap brakes until you've driven a Corrado or Golf VR6 

288mm IIRC? The older generations weren't great!

The 312s aren't terrible, but are easily cooked, without question. My current setup (latest generation R/S3/PP/Clubsport with 340s and 60mm piston) isn't massively more powerful in terms of stopping ability, but do seem to resist fade much better.

Don't get me wrong, they do stop the car better than the standard setup but the main reason I upgraded was to combat sudden and severe fade. They certainly tick that box, and that's with OEM discs and pads, nothing fancy.

[pudding]

You haven't experienced crap brakes until you've driven a Corrado or Golf VR6 

288mm IIRC? The older generations weren't great!

The 312s aren't terrible, but are easily cooked, without question. My current setup (latest generation R/S3/PP/Clubsport with 340s and 60mm piston) isn't massively more powerful in terms of stopping ability, but do seem to resist fade much better.

Don't get me wrong, they do stop the car better than the standard setup but the main reason I upgraded was to combat sudden and severe fade. They certainly tick that box, and that's with OEM discs and pads, nothing fancy.

The earlier 280x20mm setup.  They were so bad they were borderline dangerous!

I haven't experienced fade on the road with the standard MK5 setup yet, which is weird because I come off a particular down hill slip road at well over 100 quite regularly 

I think you lot are just hooligans 

I do like the sound of your setup though and will definitely look into that when my discs and pads are spent.

[cossielee]

few of the cossie . runs about 380ish at 32psi peak and 27psi hold, currently waiting the gearbox to ber refitted as av smashed the 4th 1 this year lol