XYZ Racing Hollow Rear Brake Kit — Volkswagen GOLF 7 (2WD) 1.4T (2013-2020)

On a front-driven Golf 7 1.4T, the rear axle goes light the moment you lean on the brakes. Weight pitches forward onto the nose, and the standard rear discs spend most of their life loafing. The XYZ Racing Hollow Rear Brake Kit gives that under-worked rear end real thermal headroom and a firmer, more progressive bite, so the car stays settled instead of skating when you brake into a corner.

This is a rear-axle upgrade for fast-road MK7 owners who have already sorted the front end, or who run the odd track day and want the back of the car pulling its weight. Two-piece floating discs with a hollow-vane core trim unsprung mass at each rear corner, and the kit is sized to sit behind the larger aftermarket wheels most 1.4 TSI owners are already running.

What this brake kit does for your 2013-2020 Volkswagen GOLF 7 (2WD) 1.4T

After fitting, the first thing you notice on your 2013-2020 Volkswagen GOLF 7 (2WD) 1.4T is a more balanced pedal. The rear contributes earlier, which sharpens turn-in and reins in the nose-dive that flatters a front-wheel-drive hatch into early understeer. The three pad compounds let you match the rear to how you actually drive: Street for quiet, low-dust daily commuting, Sport for spirited B-road work with the heat range for the occasional track day, and Racing when you are stringing hot laps together and need the rear discs to shrug off repeated heat. The hollow-vane discs shed weight at the least-sprung point of the car, so the rear suspension reacts faster over mid-corner bumps. And with calipers offered in the included Red, Yellow, Gold, Black and Anodized Black, plus premium polished-forged, candy and custom Pantone finishes, the kit reads as a deliberate build behind open-spoke wheels rather than an afterthought.

About the Hollow Rear Brake Kit

XYZ Racing builds this as a rear-axle big brake kit, pairing larger two-piece floating discs with a caliper that adds clamping area and cooling capacity behind the rear wheels. The disc is the headline: a hollow-vane core takes material out of the casting to drop rotating and unsprung mass without surrendering swept area, which helps the rear brakes recover temperature between stops. The caliper is hollow-bodied as standard, with a Hollow Racing upgrade for harder use that drops the dust cover, is rated to 1000C and carries a two-year warranty. It is sold with a choice of three friction compounds, Street, Sport and Racing, so the same hardware can be set up for road manners or track durability, and faces come drilled or slotted at the same price. Caliper bodies come in the included Red, Yellow, Gold, Black and Anodized Black at no extra cost, plus premium polished-forged, candy and custom finishes, for owners who treat the brake hardware as part of the car’s look. On a 2WD 1.4T, where the rear axle carries far less braking load than the front, the gain is consistency and balance rather than headline stopping distance, keeping the rear discs in their working range through repeated heavy stops.

Fitment for the Volkswagen GOLF 7 (2WD) 1.4T (2013-2020)

This kit is specified for the Volkswagen GOLF 7 (2WD) 1.4T built between 2013 and 2020, the front-wheel-drive 1.4 TSI MK7, not the four-wheel-drive or larger-engined variants, and supplied as a left-and-right pair. Confirm your car is the 2WD 1.4T before ordering. Note that many MK7 rear corners run an electronic parking brake, so check your existing caliper type against the kit’s fitment notes when you order.

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Choose your friction compound and caliper finish to suit how your Golf 7 1.4T actually gets driven, then order yours above.