Im sure it will be self explanatory but I am just checking before set the time aside I get everything out to do the job sometime soon. To remove the front brake calliper to change the pads and discs is the bolt to remove the calliper/ mounting bracket pretty obvious? (is it hex head/allen/Torx?) I have done the brakes before on other cars no problems but I have not tried yet on the Octavia. Once I had the wheel off in the dark for something else and had a quick look and couldn’t see how to remove the calliper (as I say it was dark), it looked that It was maybe a case of removing the pin the calliper slides on if there is an allan head in the other end of this? Or is this attached to a bracket that comes off? Sorry this is a really simple question as I say when I had the wheel off before it was dark and now I know I need to do my brakes its plaguing the back of my mind that there may be some special tool or something (although I doubt it, I just don’t have time to whip the wheel off to look at the moment).

If you've done other pads procedure is pretty much the same.

Unplug the wear sensor wire

On the inboard side of the caliper are 2 rubber bungs covering the ends of the guide pins - pull them off.

Remove these, and simply undo the guide pins using Allen key (from memory I think this is an 8mm, which is not a size normally supplied with standard sets and is probably the special tool referred to. The rear pads do require a proper wind-back tool)

^excellent, Yeah I think that should be all I needed to know (and Im sure I would have seen, but at least now I don’t have to worry about it I know I can just crack on with it when I get an evening free), as you say everything else will be as per other cars I've done or obvious enough. Thanks.

Edited 30 March, 201115 yr by Sm1thson

^got it all done no problems. It wasnt 8mm (at least my 8mm key didnt seam to fit) or 6 mm so I'm guessing it was 7mm (which makes sense as you say its a size that isnt normally supplied), it wasnt a problem a Torx T45 fit and did the job nicely.

I don't suppose anyone happens to know if there is a sensor in the back drum shoes on a 1.9 TDi Ambiente?

I've a pad warning on the dashboard, but having bought replacements and taken the wheel off the existing pads have got loads of use left in them yet.

Tom

Edited 5 April, 201115 yr by tomsimmons

^got it all done no problems. It wasnt 8mm (at least my 8mm key didnt seam to fit) or 6 mm so I'm guessing it was 7mm (which makes sense as you say its a size that isnt normally supplied), it wasnt a problem a Torx T45 fit and did the job nicely.

Hi, your right,

I am currently changing the front disks. I have a set of Torx hex allen key / 1/2 drive that I am using and the 7mm one fitted the hex recess in the guide pins.

Peter

^got it all done no problems. It wasnt 8mm (at least my 8mm key didnt seam to fit) or 6 mm so I'm guessing it was 7mm (which makes sense as you say its a size that isnt normally supplied), it wasnt a problem a Torx T45 fit and did the job nicely.

Sorry, I did say it was from memory. I use 3/4 socket drive full set, and just grab the necessary one.