Well, I've finally finished changing all the discs and pads on Fivey and it only took about 20 hours over 5 days.
The fronts weren't too difficult, the time consuming part was cleaning the area where the pad locating spring clips fit, my car is nearly 7 years old so there was a lot of dirt and corrosion to remove.
The rears were an absolute nightmare! To get the discs off you need to remove the calliper carrier and to get that off you need to take off the stub axle. The ABS sensor wouldn't come out of the backplate so the cable had to be disconnected where it joins the body.
The nuts securing the stub axle to the rear axle needed an impact wrench to loosen them and the only way to get enough room to get the wrench in was to remove the rear shock absorbers and springs.
Once I finally had the stub axle off the car I needed to use the impact wrench to loosen the Allen bolts securing the calliper carrier, three came out okay but one rounded off so I had to weld a nut on to it to free it off. I decided to replace all 4 bolts which caused a further delay while the dealer got them in.
Again there was a lot of dirt to clean off the callipers but once they were cleaned it all went back together easily enough.
So there you have it, if you don't have a well equipped workshop and loads of time to spare don't even consider changing the rear discs.
The fronts weren't too difficult, the time consuming part was cleaning the area where the pad locating spring clips fit, my car is nearly 7 years old so there was a lot of dirt and corrosion to remove.
The rears were an absolute nightmare! To get the discs off you need to remove the calliper carrier and to get that off you need to take off the stub axle. The ABS sensor wouldn't come out of the backplate so the cable had to be disconnected where it joins the body.
The nuts securing the stub axle to the rear axle needed an impact wrench to loosen them and the only way to get enough room to get the wrench in was to remove the rear shock absorbers and springs.
Once I finally had the stub axle off the car I needed to use the impact wrench to loosen the Allen bolts securing the calliper carrier, three came out okay but one rounded off so I had to weld a nut on to it to free it off. I decided to replace all 4 bolts which caused a further delay while the dealer got them in.
Again there was a lot of dirt to clean off the callipers but once they were cleaned it all went back together easily enough.
So there you have it, if you don't have a well equipped workshop and loads of time to spare don't even consider changing the rear discs.