If you can lock up your tires while braking (or get ABS to come on) then your brakes are not even your weak point. Can/could you not do that before? Or are you overheating them on the street?

With almost every car I've owned, people always complain about brake sizes and say the car should have come with better brakes. Those people are usually wrong.

A4 rotor = 7.25 lbs

A8 rotor = 11.25 lbs

Not that I care I'm also running 19x8.5's lol

unsprung weight is 10x as bad as sprung weight

ive heard only good things about hawk

What rotor to buy?
 

I have an A8L 2004 and now is time to change the rotors and the pads. I have read all the posts about the rotors and the pads in this forum.
EBS tunning and also genuineaudivwparts.com both claim that they sell the genuine parts from Audi?!
I not an agressive driver and drive mainly highway/city = (80/20%). There are a lot of posts for and against ECS redstuff pads. So, all things considered can I come to the conclusion that the best choice for me in terms of the brake performance, noise, dust, etc. is;

Genuine Audi rotors + Hawks hps?

Thank you for your thoughts,
A.

This argument has been popping up a lot recently, especially on vortex. But I have not seen a single person who has done this upgrade complain about it or wish they didn't do it. I almost decided not to do the upgrade because of all the "weight issues" I heard, but when the mod is done you instantly feel much better braking and the car does not feel any heavier or more sluggish.

For your A8L, yes, stock rotors and Hawk HPS pads are a great combo. You can substitute Zimmerman or ATE plain rotors if the OEMs are too expensive.

A word of warning about HPS: they do squeak a little. Its NOwhere near as bad as Redstuff, but they are noisier than stock pads. But then again, they stop better than stockers. ;)

My HPS pads started squeaking after a few months because I forgot to put the anti-squeal paste on them. But after applying that to the outside of the pads, I haven't heard a peep out of them.

Can you put anti-squeal paste on the pads, even sfter they were installed?
Tnx,

I run Yellowstuffs w/ATE Elliptical Slotted rotors on my A4 with HUGE success. Great cold bite and bite only improves the hotter they get. However my friend ran Greenstuffs on his MINI with the same rotors and hated them. Ive never heard anyone give a great review od reds or greens, but everyone I know whos ever run yellows LOVED them. My friend runs Hawks on his Z32 & loves them, idk what model pad tho.