Changing the front disks and pads on a Clio 1.5 Dci

[Shinobi]

Hi Guys,

Just bought some pads and disks for the DD and hoping to fit them at the weekend, is it a big job? I'm not to bad with a spanner and should have about 6 hours to complete the job lol. Garage quoted £200 fitted I bought the parts for £55.60 delivered.

Any tips or good guide to changing them?

Thanks

[megamaniac]

as long as you have the relevant tools they are a doddle,an hour /hour and a half tops i would say.

[GTP rpm]

The Torx40 bolts that hold the discs on can be a pain, if some monkey has over-tightened them previously. Before you take the brakes apart, with that corner jacked up and the wheel off just get someone to put their foot on the brake while you try to crack them off.

If you've got an impact driver, you'll be fine. Otherwise;

- 1x13mm at the bottom of the caliper. Lift caliper up on top slider.

- Remove pads, push piston back on caliper with some plumbers grips (make sure you have the cap off of the brake fluid reservoir - wrap some rag around the top to prevent spillage. Slide the caliper off of the top slider and with a coat hanger, hook it up attatched to the coil spring so not to damage the flxi-hose.

- 2x18mm bolts holding the carrier on. These can be quite tight, so roll your sleeves up! Make sure you take a wire brush to the carrier on the area's that make contact with the pad. Otherwise you'll get premature wear and/or a brake imbalance after some time.

- Remove the 2xTorx40 bolts (read above if you haven't regarding these).

- Hammer the disc off, it'll probably be on there quite tight.

Make sure you clean the face of the hub up a lot. You want the new disc to seat on there nicely! If you don't, brake judder can occur.

Put the T40's back in, don't do them too tight - they're only designed to locate the disc really! Put the cleaned up carrier back on, do the 2x18mm bolts up tightly. Apply copper slip to the parts of the pads that make contact with the carrier and pop them in and make sure they are free. If they are tight in there, you haven't cleaned the carrier up enough!

Slide the top slider in of the brake caliper, swing it back down to clear the pads. Make sure both caliper sliders are free...apply copper slip to them if they're not super smooth, then just do the 1x13mm bottom caliper bolt up and that's about it!

If you get stuck, or want torque settings let me know. Or, if you're close to Bucks give me a shout.

HTH, Ian

[Nick_F]

Go to agricultural supplier and find a horse-size syrynge: absulutely invalusble for spillage-free removal brake fluid from reservoir, and then for topping back up when job is complete.

[Shinobi]

Thanks for the tips guys, looks like I should be fine then. Hopefully...