320d M Sport
Tools youll need are -
Jack + Wheel brace to remove your wheels!
13mm + 17mm Spanners.
New Pads!
Elbow grease.
Dead easy this!
So, jack car up, take wheel off. Looking at the caliper youll see 2 nuts at the rear of the caliper facing towards the engine, one at the top and one at the bottom.
Place the 13mm spanner on the nut at the end, and the 17mm on the on the larger nut next to it. Holding the larger nut in place remove smaller nut.
http://www.rs-team.org/Images/Prepa/Plaquettes_av/pl_av4.jpg*
Repeat with top nut but dont remove it, I just loosed it enough to be able to move it a bit.
Slide the pad carrier upwards (should be pivoted by the top nut you loosened) and simply take old pads out.
http://www.rs-team.org/Images/Prepa/Plaquettes_av/pl_av7.jpg*
You can see the piston in the pic above (round bit!) youll need to push that back in order for it to squeeze past your new thicker pads - I placed a spanner across the face and pushed it in.
Put new pads in (make sure u put them in the right way!!) and simply reverse of above; slide carrier back down, put nut back in the bottom + tighten, tighten top nut.
Put wheel back on and jobs a goodun!
Remember to bed the pads in, dont cane it straight away or youll glaze your new pads over.
Easy, once wheels are off and cars jacked up youre looking at 10 minutes tops.
*Pics borrowed from the Clio RS website! Hope they dont mind*
Have a brew and feel chuffed with yourself...
