Hope the forum can help me make up my mind on Rotors, looking at replacing both front and rear sets.
I have basically ruled out the OEM’s mainly due to price unless the forum persuades me otherwise. I am in two minds between the JHM and the Stoptech’s. Are the Stoptech’s worth the extra $619.00?
Whilst on the subject, do I a stay with new OEM pads or do I go for something else, suggestions please?
Would appreciate any feedback.
I cant say anything about stoptech, but i have the sets of front(380mm) and rear light weight rotors from JHM, and can’t complain so far, i dont track my car or anything like that,for daily use and some spirit driving is working fine for me!
I bought OEM when I needed new ones (2012) but they were $302 CDN each. I don’t know what the fuk is happening with them but I think they’re more than double that now?
The JHM ones are very light and work well for street duty. A member here used them on his track car (he’s an experienced driver) and had around 10 track days and a year or so of street driving before they started to wear out. That’s pretty solid for a street rotor.
I had JHM rotors on my old B7 S4 and they were solid. I had no trouble with them.
Some will say ‘they warp…waaaaah’…but reality is that you can’t warp a rotor. You can use a poor pad choice with them, then not bed them, and end up with deposits on the rotors, causing shuddering…but is that the rotor’s fault or the driver?
Thanks,
Appreciate the feedback, only going to be for street use so I think I will go with the JHM setup for now and grab some pads from them as well.
Cheers Rudi
maybe because it’s $800 for front rings only (!!!), and we know almost nothing about their weight etc?
JHM = $468 and they are 8lbs lighter than stock
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hope this works…
Yeah, the 380mm JHM kit seems to be on sale too.
I actually run the Girodisc 380mm kit on the RS5 (for a while now) and am impressed with how it’s held up to the torture I’ve been putting it through. 23.2lbs total.
I actually drove one of the two jhm stage 2 supercharged rs4. That car has the jhm rotors on it and they are working great and how many cars do you know that stop from 125+mph over and over. I also have those on my S4 and after years of abuse they still work great.
Sorry I just wanted to repost this because it was an awesome pic and it was completely on topic. How long did you have that one waiting to post.
I had JHM lightweight 350mm rotors on the front of my old S6, and loved them. Put almost 20k miles on them and they still looked great.
Combine them with some lightweight wheels and you will definitely feel the lack of weight.
Another plus is when you do need to replace them, you only have to buy the rotor rings at a cheaper price, and can reuse the hats.
Yeah the B7 S4 jhm rotors drop 10 lbs per front shockingly. And MAN can you feel it.
RS4 is already pretty light (24 lbs each) for the large size, so it’s tough to shed weight but the JHM front RS4s still shave 4 lbs x 2.
I got shuddering with my stock rotors. Turns out it was uneven wear on the pads. A few hard stops from 100mph at the dragstrip sorted that out
