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After discovering the above issue, the clio was off the road for the week whilst waiting for parts to arrive.
In the meantime I cleaned up the carriers to bare metal and painted them anthracite.
Genuine rear discs and brembo pads arrived from @Kev@KAM. Went for brembo rears this time over...
Is the main seal the one around the piston? Ik struggling to find any for 50/corner, especially at short notice! Might have to wince and pay ecp prices. Just dont want the whole system to leak dry!
Just fitted a set of new genuine discs and brembo pads. All went okay, or so I thought.
I'd forgotten to fully torque the caliper to the hub so went back out to click them on the torque wrench and noticed fluid on the nearside wheel...
Appears its leaked by the piston boot and dripped down. Is...
Noticed a slight knocking noise on wednesday that eventually got worse towards the end of the week. Mainly when driving slowly, disappearing when going faster.
Thatll be it then. 🙃
Turn the heaters off/go for a short drive and take some coolant with you.
I just kept the cap off and ran the car for 20 mins whilst squeezing the top hose.
Undid the bleed screw again and coolant pissed straight out with no air.
You definitely need to lower the subframe.
Basically, undo pinch bolt on rack, remove nearside subframe bolts, fully loosen drivers side bolts.
Remove hubs both sides, disconnect ARB, remove shocks as it's easy to. The whole lot then wiggles out the passenger side
Been proper cracking on with this!
Going back to this post, the first photo is of your alarm system. If you cut open the bundle youll find a connector inside where it joins to the LED. I've unplugged mine and trimmed it down, laziness from the alarm fitters!
The connector under glovebox...