Chaging Brembo brake pads on a VW Touareg
02 June 2012, 05:47 PM
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Chaging Brembo brake pads on a VW Touareg
Seriously if you have one of these with Brembo four pots (and two pot rears) which hasn't had the brakes touched for many years (not lubricated/maintained). Don't even try to change the pads without a spare set of pins, a grinder and a set of suitably sized drifts.
FFS what a sh*tty design. The pins that hold the pads in seize in solid, causing them to bend when removing them. No amount of soaking in penetrant and rost off ice would allow them to budge.
What is wrong with using a snap pin like most other Brembo/Girling calipers to hold the pins in which can be easily removed without going medieval on them ? Instead of the wedge fit collar which corrodes and seizes into place making it impossible remove that VW (and Porsche on the Cayenne) use?
BTW the pins are £20 a pair! So £80 to do the whole car (in addition to the pads and pad wear sensors)
Classic case of the German's allowing the Italians to make their brakes.
Give me ATE anyday.
/rant off
(Guess who spent the morning changing the pads on a Touareg?
)
FFS what a sh*tty design. The pins that hold the pads in seize in solid, causing them to bend when removing them. No amount of soaking in penetrant and rost off ice would allow them to budge.
What is wrong with using a snap pin like most other Brembo/Girling calipers to hold the pins in which can be easily removed without going medieval on them ? Instead of the wedge fit collar which corrodes and seizes into place making it impossible remove that VW (and Porsche on the Cayenne) use?
BTW the pins are £20 a pair! So £80 to do the whole car (in addition to the pads and pad wear sensors)
Classic case of the German's allowing the Italians to make their brakes.
Give me ATE anyday.
/rant off
(Guess who spent the morning changing the pads on a Touareg?
)
Last edited by ALi-B; 02 June 2012 at 05:55 PM.
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