Slim Jules’ Golf
Gti Of Car.
A change is as good as a break, but a change of brakes is
better than both…
Okay,
okay. I said I would be installing some lovely Kenwood Audio into the Golf this
month, but I lied. I’m actually doing that next month as I had a more pressing
issue to sort out first, quite literally! If you cast your mind back a few
months to Modest Matt’s list of faults on my Golf, one of them was the worn
discs and pads! Well, as you can imagine, this problem was only going to get
worse, and it did, so I decided to resolve this problem with a brand spanking
new set of discs and pads from the lovely guys at EBC! I always think it’s
worthwhile upgrading your discs when renewing them, the difference in price
from replacement VW units is negligible. Sure, you can buy cheaper non-branded
alternatives on the Internet, but compromising on the things that stop your car
isn’t something I’d be willing to do.
You can buy cheaper non-branded
alternatives on the Internet
After
speaking to the guys at EBC and discussing my needs they recommended their USR
discs combined with their Greenstuff pads. The pads are designed for ‘spirited
street driving and performance on cars under 200bhp’ and that pretty much sums
up my Golf and needs. The other benefit of these pads is that they use EBC’s low
dust compound, so I don’t have to order Midge to clean my rims every two days,
giving him more time to make my tea, result! As you can see from the pics, Matt
wasn’t wrong when he said my brakes needed changing, and although it might look
like I got him to do all the work, I can guarantee I got my hands dirty this
time (well someone had to take the pics), and after a bit of a wire-brush and
dashing of copper grease, everything fitted up perfectly.
USR discs combined with their
Greenstuff pads.
As
we were replacing all the discs and pads, I thought I might as well upgrade the
brake lines too, as the stock ones were looking a bit suspect. Again, I went
for a leading and well established manufacturer, and bought a set of awesome Goodridge
Phantom lines. Obviously, when you replace the lines you need to bleed the
brakes through, so for this I hired the help of Midge (when he wasn’t making my
tea) to pump the pedal (well he needs the exercise), and after our 6th attempt,
because of an air lock we couldn’t seem to shift, everything was notched up and
ready for a road test. It’s amazing the difference the new set of discs, pads
and lines have made and really has highlighted how bad my stock set-up was.
Now, where’s that head unit…
I thought I might as well upgrade the
brake lines too, as the stock ones were looking a bit suspect. Again, I went
for a leading and well established manufacturer, and bought a set of awesome
Goodridge Phantom lines.
