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Posted: **Wed Jan 06, 2021 10:08 am**

Hey there, so I have a 2016 1.8 gti and I'm going to change the discs/pads over the weekend (312x25 front, 233x9 rear) but for the life of me I can't find the torque settings for the calipers or brackets. Does anybody know them or how I could find them out? Thanks a lot.

This would be my first foray into working on a car myself and my first nice purchase at that so I'd like to do it right.

Posted: **Wed Jan 06, 2021 10:53 am**

You could buy a workshop manual from easymanuals it is just a copy of the official workshop manuals made available to non VW workshops. I did that for my wife's August 2015 Polo 1.2TSI 110 and my February 2011 S4.

Edit:- as a back up for normal jobs, the Haynes workshop manual is also helpful, though it is based on the earlier 6R Polo and will not include the GTI, but many suspension etc jobs will be similar.

Posted: **Wed Jan 06, 2021 3:03 pm**

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Posted: **Wed Jan 06, 2021 3:08 pm**

Thanks Amer, remember FIS III is 256mm, FN 3 is 288/312mm. GTI has the bigger brake.

Posted: **Wed Jan 06, 2021 4:30 pm**

Cheers Amer, life saver. Do you have any diagrams/info on the rear discs as well? I'm doing an all round change. I reckon I'll get a manual eventually but right now I'm only after the torque.
Thanks!

Posted: **Thu Jan 07, 2021 7:22 am**

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Posted: **Thu Jan 07, 2021 10:03 am**

Fantastic cheers man. Mystery solved now! Looking forward to the weekend.

Posted: **Thu Jan 07, 2021 10:44 am**

Cheers mate, get your self ceramic grease and grease the guide pins, and hub surface and lightly the parts where pads slide ( metal on metal) will help down the road.
Ceramic grease is safe on metal, rubber...

Posted: **Thu Jan 07, 2021 10:54 am**

amer6R wrote: Thu Jan 07, 2021 10:44 am Cheers mate, get your self ceramic grease and grease the guide pins, and hub surface and lightly the parts where pads slide ( metal on metal) will help down the road.
Ceramic grease is safe on metal, rubber...

Are you sure that "ceramic grease" is safe to use with rubber (as in applying it to guide pins that have rubber dampers)? I though that "copper" and "aluminium" and "ceramic" greases were all normally greases that do react with rubbers but that they had copper or aluminium or ceramic powder loaded into the basic grease. I'd only ever silicon grease on brake guide pins that pass through rubber dampers.

Posted: **Thu Jan 07, 2021 10:56 am**

Yes it is safe + its more resistant to heat

Copper is no go with rubber parts.

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