Stage 1 & Insurance?

[TrickGTI]

Dont forget to upgrade your brakes after a remap, the standard brakes aren't really up to 200bhp 

Not going to take it of subject for long but i did a track day in my stage 2+ golf gti and the brakes handled themselves brilliantly. VW wouldn't have put them on the car if they could only just cope with 200bhp. more to the point if your getting the standard brakes to their brake fade point on the road I don't think that's going to be your only problem! 

P.s always best to tell insurance as you never know what's round the corner! Maybe one of these people maxing out there brakes 

[reflex11]

just rang up insurance and they said for £180 I can go up to 250bhp, exhaust & induction kits don't change my insurance either 

[gigolo456]

Wow, thats good, who is that with then?

[GrayMK5GTI]

Dont forget to upgrade your brakes after a remap, the standard brakes aren't really up to 200bhp  

Not going to take it of subject for long but i did a track day in my stage 2+ golf gti and the brakes handled themselves brilliantly. VW wouldn't have put them on the car if they could only just cope with 200bhp. more to the point if your getting the standard brakes to their brake fade point on the road I don't think that's going to be your only problem!  

P.s always best to tell insurance as you never know what's round the corner! Maybe one of these people maxing out there brakes  

My brakes can fade at 60mph   never had such poor brakes on either of my civics or my Focus ST. Perhaps some are better than others but the general opinion (mine included) is that they aren't up to the job  

Hence 40+ pages of NQSBBQ and numerous discussions of upgrades.

As Robin always says, nothing wrong with a spirited drive, it's irresponsible driving that causes accidents and you don't have to be driving irresponsibly to get brake fade (at least not with my brakes)

Seems like common sense to me if you upgrade the engine power, you upgrade that brakes to go with it?

All 250+ bhp golfs / scirroccos have stronger brakes so looks like VW are of this belief also.

Gray

[rob172cup]

Ive never had brake fade with my stamdard brakes ?? although I did buy ther car off trickgti!!

[GrayMK5GTI]

Ive never had brake fade with my stamdard brakes ?? although I did buy ther car off trickgti!!

Mine seem to fade all the time now (even slowing for a roundabout at 60mph) without foot hard on the pedal. I thought everyone's were this bad??

[donovan2123]

Again no brake fade here with OEM parts from vw. I did however have real bad fade when using pagid pads from ecp.

Dont forget to upgrade your brakes after a remap, the standard brakes aren't really up to 200bhp  

Not going to take it of subject for long but i did a track day in my stage 2+ golf gti and the brakes handled themselves brilliantly. VW wouldn't have put them on the car if they could only just cope with 200bhp. more to the point if your getting the standard brakes to their brake fade point on the road I don't think that's going to be your only problem!  

P.s always best to tell insurance as you never know what's round the corner! Maybe one of these people maxing out there brakes  

My brakes can fade at 60mph   never had such poor brakes on either of my civics or my Focus ST. Perhaps some are better than others but the general opinion (mine included) is that they aren't up to the job  

Hence 40+ pages of NQSBBQ and numerous discussions of upgrades.

As Robin always says, nothing wrong with a spirited drive, it's irresponsible driving that causes accidents and you don't have to be driving irresponsibly to get brake fade (at least not with my brakes)

Seems like common sense to me if you upgrade the engine power, you upgrade that brakes to go with it?

All 250+ bhp golfs / scirroccos have stronger brakes so looks like VW are of this belief also.

Gray