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1) How easy is to change brake discs and pads on an 02 plate Range Rover? Never done it before and am not wanting to keep spending loads on garages for what I'm thinking isn't too hard to do??

2) My FF is running on 20" wheels which is fine but I'm wanting to put some chunkier tyres on (General Grabber style) but they don't tend to go that big?? Any suggestions or do I find some 18/19" wheels instead.

Thanks all
 
chawks said:
1) How easy is to change brake discs and pads on an 02 plate Range Rover? Never done it before and am not wanting to keep spending loads on garages for what I'm thinking isn't too hard to do??

2) My FF is running on 20" wheels which is fine but I'm wanting to put some chunkier tyres on (General Grabber style) but they don't tend to go that big?? Any suggestions or do I find some 18/19" wheels instead.

Thanks all
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Very easy if you know what you are doing. If you don't find someone that does. Whatever size wheel and tyre you fit it MUST be the same rolling radius as a standard wheel and tyre or your speedo will be illegal. The speed indicated will be lower than the actual road speed. On your year of car that is illegal.
 
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Simples....

  • Crack of the wheel nuts while weight on wheels (WoW)
  • Lift vehicle and secure....
  • Remove the wheel nuts and wheel
  • Using a lever, prise off the spring retainer (cover with your gloved hand to prevent it flying off)
  • Depending on how much the disc is lipped either:
  • a) If not lipped - remove the bottom caliper pin (7 or 8mm Allen key can't remember which), then rotate the caliper upwards and withdraw pads
  • b) If lipped - Open the bleed nipple and using a lever, pull the pads away from the disc. While maintaining pressure and fluid still running out, close the bleed nipple to prevent air ingress. Then Remove the bottom cailpier pin and swing upwards to withdraw pads.
  • Using a suitable 12 point socket (as from memory the carrier bolts are 12 point stars) and a long breaker bar, remove the carrier bolts and tie the carrier and caliper assembly up out of the way, becareful not to but stress or twists in the flexible hoses
  • Undo the disc retaining screw and remove the disc.

Refit is the reverse.

Rears is the same aside from having to loosen the handbrake using the adjuster first....

  • Rotate disc until the little rubber bung is at the 6 o'clock position
  • Remove the bung
  • Using a long flat bladed screwdriver, rotate the adjuster cog wheel to loosen the handbrake so the disc can be removed....direction of rotation depends on how the adjuster was fitted, could be up could be down, trial and error will work that one out!
 
Saint.V8 said:
Simples....

  • Crack of the wheel nuts while weight on wheels (WoW)
  • Lift vehicle and secure....
  • Remove the wheel nuts and wheel
  • Using a lever, prise off the spring retainer (cover with your gloved hand to prevent it flying off)
  • Depending on how much the disc is lipped either:
  • a) If not lipped - remove the bottom caliper pin (7 or 8mm Allen key can't remember which), then rotate the caliper upwards and withdraw pads
  • b) If lipped - Open the bleed nipple and using a lever, pull the pads away from the disc. While maintaining pressure and fluid still running out, close the bleed nipple to prevent air ingress. Then Remove the bottom cailpier pin and swing upwards to withdraw pads.
  • Using a suitable 12 point socket (as from memory the carrier bolts are 12 point stars) and a long breaker bar, remove the carrier bolts and tie the carrier and caliper assembly up out of the way, becareful not to but stress or twists in the flexible hoses
  • Undo the disc retaining screw and remove the disc.

Refit is the reverse.

Rears is the same aside from having to loosen the handbrake using the adjuster first....

  • Rotate disc until the little rubber bung is at the 6 o'clock position
  • Remove the bung
  • Using a long flat bladed screwdriver, rotate the adjuster cog wheel to loosen the handbrake so the disc can be removed....direction of rotation depends on how the adjuster was fitted, could be up could be down, trial and error will work that one out!
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As i said easy IF you know what you are doing. I would not think a first day apprentice will be given a brake disc and pad change to do. No matter how precise the instructions are. :D:D
 
wammers said:
As i said easy IF you know what you are doing. I would not think a first day apprentice will be given a brake disc and pad change to do. No matter how precise the instructions are. :D:D
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Maybe not on his/her/their (being gender non-specific here) first day, but surely they could at least have some knowledge of changing the simplest of things which is routine maintenance....heck I was helping my dad changing pads and shoes on his Marina's/Viva's/Ital's/Astra's and whatever else he drove when I was a kid.....by the time I was 6/7 year old!
 
wammers said:
As i said easy IF you know what you are doing. I would not think a first day apprentice will be given a brake disc and pad change to do. No matter how precise the instructions are. :D:D
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i've got the pleasure of trying to fit new silicone intercooler hoses , along with freeing off the turbo actuator arm

can't wait, yeh right, lol don't think my knuckles will remain unscathed

the swear box may fill up rather quickly :rolleyes:
 
Saint.V8 said:
Maybe not on his/her/their (being gender non-specific here) first day, but surely they could at least have some knowledge of changing the simplest of things which is routine maintenance....heck I was helping my dad changing pads and shoes on his Marina's/Viva's/Ital's/Astra's and whatever else he drove when I was a kid.....by the time I was 6/7 year old!
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I wasn't quite as advanced as you, I was around 12 when I first helped my Dad with the brakes on his Jaguar 420 and helped with every car thereafter. So have to agree, changing pads is a simple job.
 
gold rover said:
I wasn't quite as advanced as you, I was around 12 when I first helped my Dad with the brakes on his Jaguar 420 and helped with every car thereafter. So have to agree, changing pads is a simple job.
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was the same with my dad teaching me the mechanics of a car

back then it seemed so much simpler , but now having to plug a computer in if the car even burps, lol
 
Cheers for the idiots guide to doing the discs...do I dare try it ?!?

Sorry FF means Full Fat , used a lot on the Range Rover forums. Or Fecking Fool if talking about this owner
 
I thought it meant faaarkin fick. As in I'm faaarkin fick enough to spend more money on my faaarkin car than them norfeners spend on an aarse guv.
 
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