Knocking & Dealer brake pricing

**leemondthefirst** · 23-08-2022, 06:44 PM

Hi all. Am due to take my 2018 Tiguan Allspace in for its 45000km service.

The Brake Pad warning came on recently, so I enquired with Southern Volkswagen in Adelaide what is was to look at it. They gave me a ballpark figure of $1200 for front pads and rotors, is that normal? Seems ridiculous to me.

Front shocks also seem very harsh. They seem to drop hard when going over small bumps or speed bumps, there is now an obvious knocking pretty regularly. I’ve asked them to look at this also but has anyone else experienced this issue?

**Dinogzav** · 24-08-2022, 09:14 AM

Dealers pricing is always excessive. My opinion is go find an independent mechanic and you will get far better results. Ring a brake company and get a quick quote off them and you will find out quickly whether the dealer is on the mark.

**Lucas_R** · 24-08-2022, 11:17 AM

You are paying dealer prices for genuine parts which is always the most expensive option. If you fitted good quality aftermarket parts such as Bosch, DBA or Brembo disks and pads you would pay about $600-800.

As for your suspension noise, its likely to be your strut tops and strut bearings in the front suspension. Its a very common occurance on the Golfs and the Tiguan is based on the Golf platform/suspension.

**ACID** · 24-08-2022, 04:58 PM

Perfect chance to buy some after market pads. The OEM pads are the most dust inducing pads I've owned and can't wait to change them out.

**Lucas_R** · 24-08-2022, 05:03 PM

If you want pads that are more gentle on the disks and basically zero brake dust, look at the ceramic pads from either ATE Ceramic or Akebono Euro Ceramic.

I have the ATE's on my Golf and the Akebono's on my SQ5, and the Akebono's are the lower dusting ones out of the two.

**ACID** · 24-08-2022, 09:02 PM

^Thank you for the tips

**Lucas_R** · 25-08-2022, 09:12 AM

Originally Posted by ACID

^Thank you for the tips

You can source the ATE Ceramic pads via various places locally, i got mine from Harding Performance. They also sell the ATE disks if you wanted to grab those?

ATE Front Ceramic Brake Pads - MK7/7.5 R, 8V S3 - Harding Performance

ATE Rear Ceramic Brake Pads - MK7/7.5 R, 8V S3, MK7/7.5 GTI - Harding Performance

**Sharkie** · 25-08-2022, 11:22 AM

Originally Posted by Lucas_R

You are paying dealer prices for genuine parts which is always the most expensive option. If you fitted good quality aftermarket parts such as Bosch, DBA or Brembo disks and pads you would pay about $600-800.

With my current (very dusty) stock pads having eaten most of my front discs now after 30,000km, I got DBA T3 Slotteds and ATE Ceramics pads (for the front) for $600. Fitting (by me is free) so massive saving over VW dealer OEM parts with a substantial improvement in performance (and less dust).

**drivesafe** · 26-08-2022, 05:40 AM

Originally Posted by Lucas_R

As for your suspension noise, its likely to be your strut tops and strut bearings in the front suspension. Its a very common occurance on the Golfs and the Tiguan is based on the Golf platform/suspension.

Hi Lucas, I have the same knocking, what is the fix?