Been chatting with Awesome Al today and I think he'll be along later with a possible solution to members who want to upgrade to braided steel lines.
Cheers,
Mike
Thanks for the little introduction Mike
I’ve had a look into the Brake hoses and it looks like the best priced option will be the Goodridge ones rather than us making up a batch in house.
We weighed up the Mk4 Golf GTI hoses against the A2 that we have got in the workshop and they just weren’t quite long enough.
After a little bit of digging we found that the next one up was the Mk5 GTI Hoses. Now these are even better as they have the metal clip ring around the middle of the hose (which is moveable) and are a slight bit longer than the standard A2 Hoses!
Now these are £32.50 + VAT (£38.19 inc VAT) for the Braded hoses with the Nickel plated ends, or if people wanted the Stainless ends, we could do them for £38.50 + VAT (£45.24 inc VAT).
This is just for the Two front brake hoses as I mentioned to Mike, the rears are braded as standard due to axle movement so you won't really need to replace them!
These Goodridge hoses seem as if they'll be a slightly cheaper alternative than the original VAG supplied brake hoses and much better quality than standard too.
I have one set of the Braded hoses with Nickel plated ends on the shelf ready to go if anyone iminnantly after an upgrade, the hoses with the Stainless ends would be about a week to a week and a half for delivery from date of order.
Let me know what you guys think!
Cheers, AL.