XYZ Racing Hollow Rear Brake Kit — Bmw 5 SERIES F 10 520 (2010-2016)

The F10 generation 520 hides a real braking demand behind its comfort-biased manners: this is a long, heavy executive saloon, and the rear axle shoulders more deceleration work than the soft ride lets on. Repeated hard stops – a loaded motorway descent, a spirited B-road, the occasional track day – find the limits of the standard rear discs, which glaze and lose bite as heat builds in them.

This XYZ Racing Hollow Rear Brake Kit for the Bmw 5 Series F 10 520 (2010-2016) is aimed squarely at that weakness. A pair of left and right rear calipers and two-piece floating discs sheds heat and unsprung mass at the rear axle, and the kit pairs it with a pad compound chosen for how you actually drive, so the back of the car stays composed when the standard setup would already be going off.

What this brake kit does for your 2010-2016 Bmw 5 Series F 10 520

On the road you feel it first as a firmer, more consistent pedal, helped by the braided lines. The vented two-piece rear discs run cooler than the solid OEM items, so the bite you get on the first stop is the bite you get on the tenth – which matters on a car this heavy when the descent is long or the traffic is stop-start. The three pad compounds let you match the rear axle to use: Street for everyday commuting, Sport for harder fast-road driving and occasional track days with more heat in the system, Racing for circuit sessions where thermal capacity is the priority. Better balanced front to rear, the F10 turns in with more confidence and settles under trail braking instead of squirming on a heat-soaked rear axle.

About the Hollow Rear Brake Kit

This is a rear-axle-specific package built around XYZ Racing’s two-piece floating discs. A vented friction ring on an alloy bell cuts weight and opens up heat paths, keeping temperatures down through repeated heavy braking – the failure mode that warps and glazes a tired OEM rear rotor on a saloon of this mass – and discs can be specified drilled or slotted at the same price. It ships with a choice of three pad compounds: Street for road use, Sport that copes with the higher heat of hard fast-road driving and occasional track days, and Racing for track work. The caliper body is hollow-cast as standard, with a Hollow Racing upgrade for serious track use that drops the dust cover for a 1000C rating and a two-year warranty. Calipers come painted at no extra cost in Red, Yellow, Gold, Black or Anodized Black, with Custom Color in any Pantone for £150, premium polished-forged Titanium, Polished Gold and Polished Silver, and candy Teal, Blue, Red and Orange; centre bells upgrade to two-tone anodized in five colours or to titanium. Because it is engineered for the rear axle of the F10 520 specifically, the disc and caliper sizing is set for this chassis rather than a generic fitment.

Fitment for the Bmw 5 Series F 10 520 (2010-2016)

This kit is sized for the Bmw 5 Series F 10 520 across the full 2010 to 2016 production run, fitting the rear axle of the F10 chassis. Confirm your exact variant and build year using the options above before ordering so the rear disc and caliper sizing match your car.

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Choose your pad compound, disc style and caliper colour for the F10 520 rear axle above, then build yours when you order.