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Seen this on youtube last night - great video. I'm firm believer in a little DIY if confident & able to do so - I can only imagine what the Audi dealers would charge for this
They charge about £300 for new pads, insane
One of the better YouTube guides around but it’s also worth applying copper grease to the pad contact faces on the calliper carrier brackets, ie the area that these faces contact .....
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Rears are a little trickier plus you need the piston wind back tool.
If anyone is contemplating doing the rears themselves then I strongly recommend reading this first :-
http://www.audi-sport.net/xf/threads/help-needed-epb-do-i-need-a-new-calliper.295464/
The fronts seem easy enough. I've read you should replace the calliper bolt, is this really needed?? The rears I'll just pay to have done as I wouldn't want to mess them up. Think i payed a mobile machanic 60 quid to come fit my last ones on my old car
Hi is this the same process for 2015 Audi s3 8v?
£195 here https://m.audi.co.uk/owners-area/servicing-with-audi/fixed-price-servicing/s-models.html if over three years old...They charge about £300 for new pads, insane
Is it not a push back piston, or are the grooves and marking on it to be wound back in?Rears are a little trickier plus you need the piston wind back tool.
If anyone is contemplating doing the rears themselves then I strongly recommend reading this first :-
http://www.audi-sport.net/xf/threads/help-needed-epb-do-i-need-a-new-calliper.295464/
Is it not a push back piston, or are the grooves and marking on it to be wound back in?
Grooves are there for the wind back tool which is required but on mine it still wasn’t far enough back to fit the new pads so I had to push it in the last 1/4 inch.
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looks like i should invest in a new wind back kit! (my last set got stolen!!!)
Oh no !! I bought a cheapish universal one from amazon which has about every adaptor under the sun and probably some for cars that haven’t even been invented yet !!!
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i think I'm better off going down the cheaper route now I'm out of the motor trade.
how is revo stage 2? I'm looking at their stage 3 package!
Stage 2 is/was epic in combo with CTS boost hoses, DV+ etc but now I’m stock ready to trade it in. Shame really would have liked to have seen it out and gone all out with the bigger turbo. Revo stage 3 looks appealing especially when you trade in your existing turbo .
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Your car will have "wear sensor(s)" which illuminate a dash warning light at about 2mm of pad thickness (11mm new). The problem with relying on this is that not every pad incorporates a pad wear sensor and pads can wear at slightly different rates. In an ideal World pads need to be inspected regularly at services and changed at about 3mm.I drive a 14 plate S3 8V - will it warn me when the brake pads need replacing?