This info is all just how I do it. I'm not responsible if you have any issues or anything else from doing it this way or any other way.

Now that I can post again I will post more detail. For the rotors quite a few places will resurface them for pretty cheap or if they are already too thin or you want new ones you can buy a new set. If they aren't warped or don't need turning some just take a die grinder to the surface.


Anyway to do the brakes you basically remove the wheels. On the back of the caliper you should see two bolts. Remove these two and then pull the caliper off. Once off the pads will just come out. Shouldn't be in there too tight. Then you see two bolts on the back of the bracket the caliper bolted onto. Remove these and you can remove the bracket. Once the bracket is off the rotors just slide off.

You now put rotors back on and the caliper bracket back on.

Then take a c clap or they make tools for this. I think it's called a brake pad spreader but not sure. I have one I use or I've also used clamps. Anyway put the old pad back in and use it with the tool or clamp to push the piston back in. Once the piston is back in fully you should be able to easily slide it over the rotor with the new pads. The shop I used to work at would take the cap off the brake fluid resivor and put a rag over it incase it pushed fluid out when you pushed the pistons back in. So put the new pads in and slide the caliper back into place. I put grease where the pads touch the metal and have to slide but don't get any on the actual pad. Then just grease up the slide bolts and make sure the slides are freed up and put the bolts back in. You should now be done. Well, you have to put the wheel back on.

It's a pretty simple job. Not sure if I made sense or not. If anyone has any questions I can try to answer them. All in all it's probably a 15minute job per side. 20 minutes max. It's super simple and once you do that you will see. It also usually saves you quite a bit of money.

 

oh, well theyve already been referbished since they were at the shop, but ill remember that from now on. Quick question though, is the time off on the forums or were you really up at 5:06am posting this lol Ya that sounds simple, I took out the bolts on the caliper but couldnt get it off. So i said F it cuz i needed to go in like another 15 min and the way things were going it wasnt going to get anywhere, found out then that i had an appt at the dealer so i let them do it . Thanks a lot though , ill be doing it from now on and for a much cheaper price, at least though my breaks are fixed afer strauss f'ed them up.

 

Time must be off because I wasn't up at 5 am. I was up late so it may have been 1:30 or so not sure but it wasn't 5.

Who is strauss?

Yeah to get the caliper off I take a large screwdriver or pry bar and pry the side up. I'm not sure if it's the top or bottom and I think it's different on each side. Whichever side can come out I pry it out then lift up on the other side or pull it down and it slides out. I don't know how to explain it. It would be soo much easier to show someone in person as It's hard to explain this stuff lol.

 

15 a side if u just slap new pads in there and hope for the best. Ide say 25min a side if u do the job complete. Pull out the slides and clean all the rust off them, grease the slides put them back in. Get all the rust off the caliper braket where the pads rest, put a little anti sease where the pads rest to make sure they can move foward and back easy when u apply the brakes. Theres more work than just putting new pads on if u want ur brakes to work right.

 

Strauss Auto, its a shop. A very ****ty shop.

 

I know how to do them right and believe me I do I don't just slap them together and I still stick with my 15-20 minutes a side. It might take 25 if I'm going slow but if I try I can usually do them in 15-20 a side and that's not just slapping pads in there.