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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 with loosended wheel bolts

Scirocco on jack - remember to loosen wheel bolts first

2. Remove the wheel

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Thursday, September 10th, 2009 Running gear and Brakes No Comments