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XYZ Racing Hollow Front Brake Kit — Volkswagen POLO 9N3 (ONLY FOR MODELS WITH TWO-PIECE OE CALIPER) (2005-2009)

SKU: XYZ-BRK-BKF-VO-33-B-FRONT

  • IncludesFront axle pair (2 discs + 2 calipers)
  • PositionFront
  • Disc Ø286–444 mm
  • Caliper pots4 / 6 / 8 / 12-pot
  • Lead time10–15 working days

Fits Volkswagen POLO 9N3 (ONLY FOR MODELS WITH TWO-PIECE OE CALIPER) (2005-2009)

Brake pad compound

Street: quiet, low-dust, strong cold bite for road driving. Sport: higher temperature range and more bite for fast road and occasional track. Racing: maximum fade resistance for sustained track use (noisier and dustier cold). Match the pad to how hard you actually brake.

Disc size

Caliper grade

Hollow is the standard caliper: a lighter hollow-body forged caliper with a dust cover and a 5-year warranty. Hollow Racing drops the dust cover for sustained high-temperature use (rated to 1000°C, 2-year warranty) — the track-grade choice.

Caliper colour

Painted colours are included. Polished-forged finishes are mirror-polished forged calipers (Titanium, Gold, Silver); candy colours are a deep, mirror-reflection paint. Both are premium upgrades — fuller detail further down the page.

Painted — includedTell us the exact Pantone (PMS) code you want the calipers painted.Polished forgedCandy
Disc style

Drilled discs (cross-drilled holes) vent gas and water and look aggressive; slotted discs (surface grooves) wipe the pad face clean and resist fade under sustained hard use. Same price — choose on looks or how you drive.

Centre bell

The centre bell is the CNC-machined aluminium hat that joins the disc to the hub. Standard anodized is included; a two-tone bell adds an anodized accent ring in your choice of colour; titanium is the lightest, forged option.

Carbon-ceramic rotor

Carbon-ceramic rotors are a special-order track upgrade: far lighter than steel, fade-resistant at extreme temperatures and extremely long-lived. The price follows the disc size you choose above. The standard two-piece steel rotor is included.

Configured price£1,600.00Inc. VAT

Lead time: 10–15 working days from payment


£1,600.00

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XYZ Racing Hollow Front Brake Kit — Volkswagen POLO 9N3 (ONLY FOR MODELS WITH TWO-PIECE OE CALIPER) (2005-2009) — 286 mm
286 mm

The 9N3 Polo is a light car that punishes its front brakes harder than its size suggests, particularly once the GTI’s 1.8T pace is funnelled through a sub-tonne-and-a-bit hatch and a heavily front-biased braking balance. The XYZ Racing Hollow Front Brake Kit swaps the standard front setup for a larger disc and a fixed caliper built to take repeated heavy stops without the fade that flat-spots a factory supermini brake.

This is a front big brake kit aimed at fast-road and track use on the 2005-2009 Volkswagen POLO 9N3. Supplied as a matched pair of left and right calipers and two-piece floating discs, it fits only the cars that left the factory with the two-piece OE caliper, so the bracketry lines up with your existing hub rather than forcing a workaround.

What this brake kit does for your 2005-2009 Volkswagen POLO 9N3

Fit a bigger front disc to a car this light and you feel it on the first stop: a shorter braking distance, a firmer pedal, and brakes that still bite on the fourth and fifth corner of a session instead of going long. The extra rotor diameter adds leverage and thermal mass, which is exactly what the 9N3’s modest factory front brakes run short of once you start using the car’s performance properly. The two-piece floating disc and hollow-vane casting trim rotating and unsprung mass at the front axle and move heat away faster, so turn-in and ride stay sharp rather than being blunted by heavier hardware. Three pad compounds, Street, Sport and Racing, let you match the kit to how the Polo is used, from quiet daily running to back-to-back track laps. Caliper finishes include Red, Yellow, Gold, Black and Anodized Black at no extra cost, so the upgrade reads through the spokes the way you want it to.

About the Hollow front brake kit

XYZ Racing builds this as a front-axle big brake kit: an oversized two-piece floating disc paired with a fixed caliper and a mounting bracket cut for the 9N3’s two-piece-caliper hub. The caliper is hollow-bodied as standard, lightening it where it sits unsprung at the wheel, and the floating disc is engineered to keep swept area and thermal capacity high while shedding rotating weight. A fixed caliper clamps the pad more evenly than the sliding OE unit, which is what gives the firmer, more consistent pedal under load. The kit is offered with three pad compounds across Street, Sport and Racing, so the same hardware can be specified for road, spirited road, or circuit duty. Included paint colours are Red, Yellow, Gold, Black and Anodized Black, with a Custom Color in any Pantone, premium polished-forged Titanium, Polished Gold and Polished Silver, and candy Teal, Blue, Red and Orange as upgrades, plus a Hollow Racing caliper rated to 1000C with a two-year warranty for serious track use. On a front-wheel-drive supermini that does most of its braking through the front axle, concentrating the spend up front is where it works hardest. Everything is sized around the wheel clearance and bracket geometry of the factory two-piece caliper cars rather than the single-piece variants.

Fitment for the Volkswagen POLO 9N3 (2005-2009)

This kit fits the Volkswagen POLO 9N3 built from 2005 to 2009, and only those cars supplied from the factory with the two-piece OE front caliper. Confirm your car runs the two-piece caliper before ordering, as the single-piece variants use different mounting geometry. It is a front-only kit covering the front axle of the 9N3. Discs come drilled or slotted at the same price, and centre bells can be upgraded to two-tone in five anodized colours or titanium at checkout.

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Choose your pad compound and caliper finish, then configure your 9N3 front brake kit using the options above.

What’s in the kit

Front axle kit — supplied as a complete bolt-on assembly.

  • 2×Two-piece floating discs — 286–444 mm: you pick the exact diameter with the "Disc size" option
  • 2×Lightweight aluminium centre bells
  • 2×Forged aluminium calipers — 4 / 6 / 8 / 12-pot
  • 2×High-stiffness mounting brackets
  • 2×Braided stainless steel brake lines
  • 4×High-performance brake pads (1 set)
  • 1×Fitting hardware & tools pack

Choosing your spec

Every kit is built to order around the choices you make above. Here is what each option actually changes, so you can spec yours with confidence.

Brake pads — Street, Sport or Racing

Every kit ships with a full set of high-performance pads; the compound is your call.

Street is the right default for fast-road driving — a strong, progressive cold bite with low noise, low dust and long disc life. Sport raises the working temperature and adds bite and fade resistance for hard road use and the occasional track day, while still behaving on a cold morning. Racing is a track compound built for sustained abuse: huge fade resistance and bite once heat is in it, at the cost of more noise and dust when cold. Match the pad to how hard you actually use the brakes — there is no benefit to a race pad that never gets up to temperature.

Caliper grade — Hollow vs Hollow Racing

Hollow is the standard caliper on every kit: a hollow-body forged caliper, lighter than a solid one, fitted with a dust cover and backed by a 5-year oil-leak warranty. For most fast-road and spirited track use it is all the caliper you need.

Hollow Racing is the track-grade upgrade. It runs the same hollow body but without a dust cover (so there is nothing to melt at sustained high temperature), uses a twin-metal piston that isolates heat travelling from the disc to the oil seal, and is rated to 1000°C. Available 286–380mm (front). Warranty is 2 years on oil leaks and 10 years on appearance. Built for professional racing and repeated track days.

Hollow Racing caliper

Caliper colour & finish

Painted colours (Red, Yellow, Gold, Black, Anodized Black) are included at no cost. Want an exact match to your car? Custom Color (+£150) paints the calipers to any Pantone code you supply (15–20 day lead time).

Polished Forged finishes are the flagship: a forged caliper given a mirror-polished surface treatment that shifts colour with the viewing angle. Beyond the looks, the polished surface dissipates heat better, resists rust and stands up to the weather. Choose Titanium (neochrome, +£350), Polished Gold (+£300) or Polished Silver (+£250). They look their best paired with a titanium centre bell. Care: clean only with a dilute neutral cleaner or water.

Candy colours (+£200) use a deep candy-paint and polishing process for a mirror-reflection, boutique finish — pick Teal, Blue, Red or Orange (shown below right).

Polished forged caliper finishes
Candy caliper colours

Centre bells

The centre bell is the CNC-machined aluminium hat that joins the disc to the hub. The standard anodized centre bell is included. The Two-tone bell (+£200) adds an anodized accent ring — choose Red, Yellow, Orange, Purple or Silver right here at checkout. The Titanium centre bell (+£500) is a forged titanium bell (bolts not included) that finishes off the polished-forged look.

Two-tone anodized centre bells
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