Changing Front Brake Pads
This is a guide to changing the brake pads. This was on a Mk2 Scala – with help from Ant it did have vented disks, back to solid now, as vented wore out!
I just acquired some Mitex pads, that have barely been used, so I decided to change, as the others only had about 4mm left.
Tools needed:
6mm Allen Key
11mm Spanner
Wheel nut wrench
Jack
1. Loosen the wheel bolts, apply the handbrake and jack up the car.
Scirocco on jack - remember to loosen wheel bolts first
2. Remove the wheel
3. Turn the wheel in the direction that makes the brake calliper more accessible.
Wheel off - turn steering for easier access
4. Using a 6mm Allen Key loosen the bolts holding the calliper to the brake carrier
use allen key to remove caliper bolts
5. Push the calliper forward at the top and pull away from the bottom
ease caliper forward
6. Rest the calliper on top hub or something else, so prevent straining the flexi-hose.
support the caliper to avoid straining hose
7. Place the new / replacement pads into the brake carrier.
insert new pads
8. The calliper may need adjusting, push the piston back, if it won’t move then loosen the bleed nipple and push thepiston back so that there is enough space for the disk and pads, then retighten the bleed nipple.
9. If you’re lucky, you may be joined by some company.
the supervisor!
10. Fitting, is the reversal of fitting.
11. If you’ve loosened the bleed nipple to re-fit the calliper then the system will have to be bled.
Hope this helps someone 
Richard aka sciroccoaustin/Austin