VW Racing Big Brake kit product review

[jabbalad]

what do your original bolts look like? and can you get a pic of where the bolt seats in the wheel?

[xht20]

i don't know how the original bolts are looking like. I gave them away to someone else. All i can say is that today i talked with Sam and they will change my brake kit with a new one . I'm so happy. Hope this time works and i will have a chance to enjoy the brakes  

[MAT ED30]

  nice one its very strange  but i am sure vwr will sort it for u

[xht20]

i know, but at the end of the day everything is OK when it ends OK

[MAT ED30]

i know, but at the end of the day everything is OK when it ends OK

so true  let us know how things go

[tony_danza]

Teff, speak to someone on here with a VRS and ask them what bolts it should have - assuming you have the standard wheels. That way you know you've covered every possibility.

See the lug bolts, conical and spherical - which one?

[xht20]

Ok tony, tomorrow i will speak a friend of mine from here who has a Octavia vRS with standard wheels. Thanks for the picture. I have BBS CH wheels.

[tony_danza]

BBS CH should be conical - if you were sent the spherical, that's what is causing your wobble. If the bolts are correct, then VWR have everything covered with the new brakes.

Good luck.

[xht20]

i know, but at the end of the day everything is OK when it ends OK

so true   let us know how things go

i will do so MAT, thank you all guys for your help

BBS CH should be conical - if you were sent the spherical, that's what is causing your wobble. If the bolts are correct, then VWR have everything covered with the new brakes.

Good luck.

But if the bolts weren't the right ones, shouldn't the wheel wobble under normal driving also? (in acceleration)

[tony_danza]

When things go wrong, they do it in the most annoying way possible.

I'd at least see if you can borrow a set of correct bolts before you send them back to the UK and try them, just in case.

[xht20]

This week i will receive the new brake kit from VWR, Hope this time works. I just talked with Sam today and he said to me what they-ve improved to the brakes.

• Pad retaining sleeves have been modified so that there is no chance of the pad “catching” on the sleeve and preventing it from returning to it's correct position, so stopping the pad touching the disc when the brakes are not being applied.
 
• Pads are DS2500 and have been champfered.
 
• The aluminium bells has been checked to ensure concentricity and falls well within tolerances allowed..
 
• The discs has been checked for; balance, flatness and runout. Again they fall well within tolerances.
 
• The Disc & Bell assembly have been checked for flatness and remain in balance. Again, they fall well within tolerances.
 

In this picture, i saw that there is a difference between the 4 bolts and the security-bolt. The security-bolt has that round part (i don't know the term) bigger than the other 4 bolts. Could this affect in some way the car?

[chungster]

Looks to me the 4 main bolts are tapered type and the security bolt is radius type?? You need to know which type of bolt seats perfectly in your wheels as it is them that determines which type of bolts u need to use!

[Poppa Dom]

Standard bolts are most definitely radius, it does sound as though your bolts are tuner bolts, which are conical with a 60 degree taper. You need to get a security bolt that has the same profile as the bolts that you are using. Take a look at the McGard m14*1.5 bolts, stock code 27181su 

[xht20]

i don;t know what to say, i don't like to repeat myself, but if it the problem was because of the bolts wouldn't be normal that when i accelerate to feel the same vibration that i'm feeling when i'm braking?

[chungster]

wrong bolts for the wheels you have is just dangerous and yes u will feel vibrations accelerating and braking as the wheel is not mounted securely to the hub at all! 

you must check the bolt seat pattern for of your wheels, whatever they are, and use bolts that are suited to that. Take a wheel off and put the normal bolt and the security bolt thru the holes to see which one seats perfectly.

Then get a whole set of those type of bolts.

You can not mix and match the 2. Its one of the other.