Muckipup et al, the final verdict is
Very happy with them, an excellent upgrade, loads of pedal feel and really hauls the car down in a way that the old brakes didn't, be aware when you first bed them in with some serious high speed braking you will get lots of smoke and associated worrying smells but seems to be normal, this soon dissapears when all the crap is burnt off. I took it reasonably easy on the brakes as I didn't have sticky track tyres on the golf and you need the stopping power of the brakes of which there is lots as well as the grip of sticky tyres which is a little lacking with my dunlops.
The biggest differences are:
1) You can feel the brakes bite and start to brake very early with these brakes which enables you to control your braking so much better and scrub off just the right amount of speed to still enable you to carry speed around the corner, the feel and control is by far the biggest difference and you need to experience it to beleive the difference it makes in this area
2) Outright stopping power feels much better, how much of this is subjective I don't know but it gives you a lot more confidence you can stop
3) Finally you get more stopping p[ower earlier, i.e. as soon as you start to use the brakes you start to get serious stopping which I didn't feel at all with the old brakes.
All the above is with the ferodo's didn't get a chance to get better pads, but will only get even better with better pads.
Finally, have just changed insurance company and they liked the fact that I had done the brakes as well as all the engine mods, my insurance actually went down.
They also look awesome, I keep going to look at them and point them out to all my friends - how sad is that?
Haven't had a chance to try fitting the pescara's hopefully at the weekend, the only downside is I am still worried about the caliper / wheel clearance, but has been fine so far so will probably not go with an spacers as don't really like spacers.
So definietly highly recommended by me
