You make it look pretty easy. I've found as I get older, my willingness to take mechanical adventures like this is becoming limited. But who knows, maybe I'll consider this in the future.
You replaced the brake discs with ones that were painted with an anti corrosion coating. Painted discs do not need to be cleaned prior to installation. The brake pads remove the coating in very short order. If you read the install pamphlet it would state “install as is”. Also you presumably cleaned the two sliding pins before re greasing them but you didn’t clean the old grease from the bore holes in the caliper bracket. That should have been done. The rubber boots should be checked for tears or cracks. Finally why did you replace the caliper? Was the piston seized? Calipers last a very long time. 6:46
You make it look pretty easy. I've found as I get older, my willingness to take mechanical adventures like this is becoming limited. But who knows, maybe I'll consider this in the future.
I feel ya. I def consider the amount of my free time a task will take me before I decide to do it or not
You replaced the brake discs with ones that were painted with an anti corrosion coating. Painted discs do not need to be cleaned prior to installation. The brake pads remove the coating in very short order. If you read the install pamphlet it would state “install as is”. Also you presumably cleaned the two sliding pins before re greasing them but you didn’t clean the old grease from the bore holes in the caliper bracket. That should have been done. The rubber boots should be checked for tears or cracks.
Finally why did you replace the caliper? Was the piston seized? Calipers last a very long time. 6:46
Nice job! I like the style of this video, right to the point with a great job of explaining the process through the voiceover 😊
Glad you liked it!
Any videos of a 2021 min coooer countryman rear brakes
If I owned one, I would make that video for you! But unfortunately I don't. If I find a friend one, I will ask them if I can use their car for it.
@TheMINIVlog any update
should have painted them! 😁
I actually tried but my local auto supplies store was all out of high temp paint besides the color silver...