XYZ Racing Hollow Rear Brake Kit — Volkswagen ARTEON (3H7) (2017-2026)

The Arteon 3H7 hides its mass well. At close to five metres long, with the weight of a grand tourer carried over a nose-heavy MQB layout, VW’s fastback leans on its brakes harder than its sleek profile lets on, and the factory rear setup is sized for everyday road use, not repeated heavy stops from autobahn speeds. This XYZ Racing Hollow Rear Brake Kit for the Volkswagen Arteon (3H7) targets the back axle specifically, where a big, fast liftback needs braking balance and fade resistance as much as outright bite.

Fitted to the rear, the kit works with the car’s front-biased weight distribution rather than fighting it, restoring the stopping balance that a heavier-than-it-looks fastback tends to lose on a long descent or a sustained high-speed haul. You pick the friction material to match how the car is actually used, from quiet road duty up to a full Racing compound.

What this brake kit does for your 2017-2026 Volkswagen Arteon

After fitting, the most obvious gain on a car this size is rear-end stability under hard braking: a stronger, more consistent rear clamp keeps the long body settled instead of pitching forward onto its nose. The three pad compound choices let you set rear bite to suit the car. Street keeps things quiet and low-dust day to day, Sport adds fast-road bite with the heat range for occasional track and high-speed work, and Racing holds up under sustained abuse, so the pedal feels the same on the tenth stop as the first. The two-piece floating disc and its hollow-vane core trim rotating and unsprung mass at the rear axle, which the Arteon’s softly sprung tail notices over poor surfaces. And because the kit fits behind the wheel, the caliper finish you choose changes the look of the car the moment it is on the ground, with Red, Yellow, Gold, Black and Anodized Black included at no extra cost and premium polished-forged, candy and custom Pantone options on top.

About the Hollow rear brake kit

This is a rear big brake upgrade built around XYZ Racing’s two-piece floating disc, vented through a hollow-vane core that lightens the rotor to cut rotating mass without giving up thermal capacity. The kit is supplied with a choice of three pad compounds, Street for quiet road use, Sport for fast-road and spirited driving, and a Racing material for harder, sustained braking, so the same hardware can be specified for very different driving. 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. Caliper finishes run from the included Red, Yellow, Gold, Black and Anodized Black through premium polished-forged and candy options to any Pantone as a custom colour, and faces can be drilled or slotted at the same price. Engineered for the rear axle of a heavy, front-biased performance fastback, the focus here is consistent clamp and heat management at the end of the car that the factory treats as secondary, rather than headline numbers alone. It is a considered upgrade for an Arteon driven the way it was built to be driven.

Fitment for the Volkswagen Arteon (2017-2026)

This kit is a direct fit for the Volkswagen Arteon 3H7 chassis across the full 2017 to 2026 model run, and is supplied for the rear axle as a left-and-right pair. Pad compound and caliper colour are selected when you order. Confirm your chassis code and build year before ordering to make sure the rear specification matches your car.

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Set your pad compound and caliper colour for the Arteon 3H7 above and order the kit to suit.