Brake Change Prices

[MrTesco]

Van is going to need the brakes doing in the near future. I've just had a look on the VW website and it shows me prices for vans over 3 years but not under.

Front disc and pads : £365+vat
Rear disc and pads : £335+vat

So my question is has anyone had brakes replace before being 3 years old and just wondered if the price was much different ?

As i wanted to get them done before the MOT

Cheers in advance

 

[Tourershine]

Van is going to need the brakes doing in the near future. I've just had a look on the VW website and it shows me prices for vans over 3 years but not under.

Front disc and pads : £365+vat
Rear disc and pads : £335+vat

So my question is has anyone had brakes replace before being 3 years old and just wondered if the price was much different ?

As i wanted to get them done before the MOT

Cheers in advance

I did all mine a week ago.
I'm more than capable of doing the job myself, so I don't need to use a garage.

Full Pagid oem standard front and rear discs and pads were £176. They are exactly the same braking power as original set.
Bare in mind that I have the larger brakes.

 

[MrTesco]

I did all mine a week ago.
I'm more than able to do the job myself, so I don't need to use a garage.

Full Pagid oem standard front and rear discs and pads were £176. They are exactly the same braking power as original set.
Bare in mind that I have the larger brakes.

To be fair i was going to get some prices of independents too but just thought id see what vw charged.

My is a shuttle 150 now on the logbook shows T32 and vw say yes but it has the smaller brakes apparently?

I just put my reg into gsf and i can get front and rear disc and pads and some fluid for £166 providing i have got the smaller brakes.

Also out of interest do you know how much fluid they hold?

I did all mine a week ago.
I'm more than capable of doing the job myself, so I don't need to use a garage.

Full Pagid oem standard front and rear discs and pads were £176. They are exactly the same braking power as original set.
Bare in mind that I have the larger brakes.

 

[Tourershine]

To be fair i was going to get some prices of independents too but just thought id see what vw charged.

My is a shuttle 150 now on the logbook shows T32 and vw say yes but it has the smaller brakes apparently?

I just put my reg into gsf and i can get front and rear disc and pads and some fluid for £166 providing i have got the smaller brakes.

Also out of interest do you know how much fluid they hold?

I haven't change my brake fluid yet.
If you do end up doing the job yourself, be aware you will need a brake wind back kit for the rears, and in their wisdom, VW use a very odd sized Allen key to hold the calipers in the carriers. Its 9mm, which most sets don't include. Both bits of kit available off Ebay and not expensive. The job isn't difficult.

If you use a garage, they should charge a couple of hours labour.

 

[MrTesco]

I haven't change my brake fluid yet.
If you do end up doing the job yourself, be aware you will need a brake wind back kit for the rears, and in their wisdom, VW use a very odd sized Allen key to hold the calipers in the carriers. Its 9mm, which most sets don't include. Both bits of kit available off Ebay and not expensive. The job isn't difficult.

If you use a garage, they should charge a couple of hours labour.

Cheers for the help @Tourershine. I do have a mate who does my other car when i can get him free, but being as this is my first new i was gonna try stay VW history but if the prices are that much difference bugger it lol. Cheers again

 

[Dieseldonkey]

Euro Car Parts have a sale on. Finishes at midnight tonight but enter WEEKEND37 for 37% off known big brand brake parts.

Measured my brake discs last night to find there 300ish mm. Think thats 308mm officially. So my 150bhp T32 has wee brakes too.

 

[Tourershine]

Cheers for the help @Tourershine. I do have a mate who does my other car when i can get him free, but being as this is my first new i was gonna try stay VW history but if the prices are that much difference bugger it lol. Cheers again

Service history I get totally, but things like brakes, no one will be that fussed.

 

[Dellmassive]

I think you get the bigger front breaks on the 180/204 engines.

I had this logged on my 180 T5.1 DSG (pads only, not discs)

£99.30 EURO PARTS - FRNT + REAR BRAKE PADS (FNT-101441868 RR-101441248)

£73.74 101441868-Pagid Brake Pads (Front) 101441318-Pagid Brake Pads (Rear)

 

[oldiebut goodie]

Am I reading this correctly - you need new discs on a sub-3 year old vehicle? My T3 had new discs after 25 years but they were not worn out - still well within specs. Has longevity declined that much on VW parts? Pads are a general service item but discs?

 

[Tourershine]

Am I reading this correctly - you need new discs on a sub-3 year old vehicle? My T3 had new discs after 25 years but they were not worn out - still well within specs. Has longevity declined that much on VW parts? Pads are a general service item but discs?

Mine lasted 45k and they are worn out.
Ok, I could of got more out the rears, but not much more, and for the price, it just wasn't worth the hassle.

Many garages change discs at the same time as worn pads these days, where as old school we'd only change the pads until the discs were 'waaffer thin'

 

[Skyliner33]

I think you get the bigger front breaks on the 180/204 engines.

My 180 has the smaller brakes. It's a T30 not T32 if that makes any difference. The geek in me is curious as to what exactly is the criteria for VW to put on the big brakes.

 

[Dieseldonkey]

I'm sure I saw talk on another thread where a claim was made that they reverted back to small brakes on some of the heavier and mid range power output van's as a cost cutting measure post dieselgate. (Like deleting the traction control switch).

To be fair I've never had a problem bringing my van to a halt on the brakes it's got, but maybe once ist time to replace worn parts, I'll look at costing the upgrade.

Mines started life in 2016 as a T32 150 DSG LWB Shuttle.

 

[Dellmassive]

From memory VWCV wanted to to do a disc swap every 3rd pad swap. (Fronts).

But there is a set criteria. Ie pads min thickness 2mm, so recommend replacement below 25%.

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Bit more info at the bottom of this page.

T6 Service Intervals & Inspection, Flexible & Longlife

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[Dellmassive]

It looks like euro carparts has these listed:


Brakes:

Pads:
308mm Pagid Brake Pad (Front Axle) Product Code: 101441298
340mm Pagid Pagid Brake Pad (Front Axle)Product Code: 101441868
294mm Pagid Brake Pad (Rear Axle) Product Code: 101441318

Discs:
Smaller 308mm Front: Pagid Brake Disc (Front Axle)Product Code: 104441288
larger 340mm front; Pagid Brake Disc (Front Axle)Product Code: 104442118
standard 294mm rears: Pagid Brake Disc (Rear Axle)Product Code: 104441368


small:


Large:

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[Captain Mainwaring]

Euro Car Parts have a sale on. Finishes at midnight tonight but enter WEEKEND37 for 37% off known big brand brake parts.

Measured my brake discs last night to find there 300ish mm. Think thats 308mm officially. So my 150bhp T32 has wee brakes too.

I have a 150ps T32 as well. The salesman told me I had the bigger brakes because it was a T32 rather than anything to do with engine power

 

[Dieseldonkey]

I have a 150ps T32 as well. The salesman told me I had the bigger brakes because it was a T32 rather than anything to do with engine power

Out of curiosity, what year T32 @Captain Mainwaring ? Does it actually have the larger brakes that the salesman states?

 

[Captain Mainwaring]

@Dieseldonkey It was registered October 2016 and yes it looks like they are the bigger brakes. The original 17” wheels were a pretty tight fit over the callipers

 

[chriscroft]

My rear discs are a disgrace with corrosion at 36k miles, because we travel lightly loaded, I guess they hardly get used under most braking conditions; the fronts discs by comparison look in very good nick. (Big Brakes)
My Van went in for some warranty work (new timing belt tensioner and belt); VW told me the rear brake pads were shot, and the discs need changing due to corrosion, after sulking and telling VW as it's corrosion as opposed to ware it should be covered by the warranty (that argument didn't get very far); I had the rear pads changed (but not the discs); in hindsight a stupid decision on my part I think.

 

[Ads_Essex]

With the vans that have big brakes; are the rears bigger too, or the same as the rears on other vans?

 

[Mooncat]

New pads may clean the discs up depending on how corroded they are. I had the same problem on mine (only 25K) and decided to do a disc and pad change whilst I was swapping from winter to summer wheels about a month ago. At £45 for discs and pads and an hour of my time it wasn't a difficult decision!