Help please! My Octy VRS MK1 is in bits. I have replaced the front discs and pads OK, and am now trying to do the rears. However, I cannot get the bleedin caliper off on the first rear I have attempted. The lip is to big on the disc, and the caliper wont seem to release any play to enable me to lift it off. The handbrake is off, and I can feel slack in the cable end. Please help. Am I missing something obvious ? :(:(

If you are changing the rear discs (which I assume you are, rather than just the pads), then you might be as well either filing or grinding the lip off the edge of the disc seeing as you will be binning them anyway, and then prising the caliper off that way. It sounds as though the piston is well tight in the caliper, as mine were when I changed them...I ended up disconnecting the caliper and clamping it in a vice, as even though I have a piston wind-back tool, it would not work with the caliper on the car !!!

Excellent suggestion which worked fine (although I did have to take a hammer to the caliper to knock it back off the disc. Sometimes, the most obvious solution is staring you right in the face. I do find it strange through that if the rear piston winds in, you can't get the tool in there until you take the caliper off, but if you can't take the caliper off to get to the piston, surely it's a bit of a catch 22 situation?

Anyway, the fronts went on OK'ish. Peoples estimates of 30 minutes a corner clearly don't take stubborn bolts, etc. into account. Took me 2 hours for the first one, and 40 minutes for the 2nd.

I'll make sure I have the grinder to hand for the last wheel tomorrow.

Many thanks

No worries...glad you got it sorted :thumbup: