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CLK 55 AMG rear brakes - drilled or not ?

jahewitt

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Does anyone know if the rear brakes on a 2003/03 CLK 55 AMG are drilled ?

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Not sure but I would be very surprised if they are.
 
Well mine are drilled - and I'd expect a 5.5L AMG car to have them as standard!

Looking at the EPC they have W210 disks until '04 when they changed to R171.
 
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I'll have a quick look at mine tomorrow but I am pretty sure that the front ones are drilled but the rear aren't.
 
Not sure that drilled rears are really required for even fast road cars, except for aesthetic reasons of course.

Drilled front, non-drilled rear on the C32 too, like the CLK55.
 
I agree with D'man. Very few even very high performance cars (super cars excluded) have drilled rear disks. Vented yes, drilled quite rare.
 
Photo is this months Mercedes Enthusiast (please don't throw stones at me) shows a CLK63 and that does appear to have drilled rear disks - at least in that photo.
 
GrahamC230K said:
I agree with D'man. Very few even very high performance cars (super cars excluded) have drilled rear disks. Vented yes, drilled quite rare.

Not at all - Jaguar, Porsche, TVR, BMW & Audi all have £50k cars with cross-drilled rears. So do Ferrari & Maserati on their base models.

AMG being pikey if you ask me :rolleyes: .
 
I was wrong folks.
 
My 2001 E55 doesn't have drilled discs. Pads won't suffer from outgassing problems in road use which is what cross drilling was originally intended to avoid but I suppose they might reduce heat or water build up. Personally, I think it's fashion!:)
 
Birdman said:
Personally, I think it's fashion!:)

Spot on there I think - how often do you really need the extra something cross-drilled discs give you for road driving? Not very, if ever!!

But every time you walk up to a car you might notice the aesthestic qualities of a drilled disk. They look grrreat!! (Tony the Tiger coming out in me).

Drilled discs and nicely finished calipers amazing IMHO - Porsche especially. :cool:

Next time you see a chavved-up hatch back with huuuge wheels take a look behind, as small standard brakes do look out of place. Sadly brake upgrades cost serious money and so most boy-racer types leave the original stoppers the car left the factory with, intended to be hidden behind a steel wheel and wheel trim!!
 

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