Hi All,

I started a thread a while ago regarding my grinding rear brakes on my Fabia vRS.

Since then I have purchased new discs and pads and have tried to fit them.

Thing is, on the drivers side rear wheel the caliper will not come off. I am 99% sure there's a stone embedded in the pad which has machined a deep groove in the disc itself. The stone is acting like a locating pin in the disc groove and I can't get the damn caliper off the disc.

The only way I can see to do it will be to grind a slot in the old current disc and then try and slide the stone/pad out of the exit point of the groove which I grind.....any suggestions? If I take the entire disc and caliper off as one unit surely it will be harder to try and lever the caliper away.

Cheers,

Dan

If you undo the two 13mm bolts the pads should stay where they are so the caliper shoudl lever off and then you can prize the pads out. The pads arent attatched to the caliper.

If you undo the two 13mm bolts the pads should stay where they are so the caliper shoudl lever off and then you can prize the pads out. The pads arent attatched to the caliper.

Thanks, I took both the bolts out of the rear of the caliper but it just wouldn't come free of the disc no matter how much persuasion it was given......handbrake was definitely off by the way!

I think your just not giving it enough persuasion. Use either a pry bar or hefty screwdriver and bar the caliper up and away from the caliper carrier. Like lummox said the pads arent attached to the caliper so your stone scenario cant stop the caliper coming off.

The only other thing is the caliper could be seized which is stopping you from getting the caliper off with any ease.

If you can get the other pad (the one that's not got a stone in it) out, that should create some wiggle room in the caliper for you to extract the offending pad.