Retrofit: Ceramic Brakes

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    Retrofit: Ceramic Brakes

    We are in the process of retrofitting the OEM Audi ceramic brake package to KfabR8's car and will be snapping some photos along the way.

    With apologies in advance to Kfab, we couldn't resist the absurdity of the following situation. One of our tech's has an '88 GTI and we decided to increase the value of his car by 10x...



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    Re: Retrofit: Ceramic Brakes

    The car should now be capable of doing stoppies:

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    Re: Retrofit: Ceramic Brakes

    We have reduced the price of this Ceramic package nearly 12k to 26,995.
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    Re: Retrofit: Ceramic Brakes

    having pushed my brakes at the track, I can definitely see how they would be beneficial, but not at the price of a new car themselves!
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