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ChrisGT's Black 5 door GT TDI 170
ChrisGT:
Here's the advisory sheet, it just mentions the front offside disc but they're all pretty rough on the inside faces and outer edges so just going to replace them all. The parking brake performance that it mentions is because of the stuck caliper, the nearside he said was really good but the offside one was only just a pass so that's why I'm getting the new caliper.
Chris
ChrisGT:
Gave the golf a good wash and quick coat of Gtechniq C2 for being good and passing it's MOT. haha
Not looking too bad for a 10 year old car.
Chris
ChrisGT:
Managed to get loads done on the golf today, again massive thanks to Murray and the use of his lift! New discs, pads and a new rear caliper. Also gave the calipers a really good clean up and will hopefully have time to paint them soon. Will put up a proper update tomorrow with the pictures.
One other little thing arrived today:
Just something silly but I like it, pleased with how standard it looks, most people will probably never notice it. Now I need to get one for the other blank. Not sure if I should get another eject or if I should get one of the oil slick ones or something.
Chris
ChrisGT:
New discs and pads fitted all around, new offside rear caliper plus a bit of new brake pipe, wire brushed and then painted the rear dust shields with a quick coat of black paint to protect them a little longer and can only get to them when the discs were off. Calipers cleaned with needle gun and then air powered wire wheel to give them a good freshen up ready for painting which I'll hopefully manage to do in the next few weeks. They'll just need a good wash, quick once over with wire brush again and then some IPA before primer and paint.
Some pictures, all from Iphone 4 so not the best quality but you get the idea.
So this is the front offside disc which was the advisory on the MOT last week. as you can see the inside face of it is pretty bad, the outside face didn't look too bad but it was definitely time for them to be changed as it had quite a bad lip and quite deep waves/grooves on both faces:
Inside face:
Outside face, this was the worst part of the outer lip:
Rear dust sheilds are both pretty corroded on the bottom edges but mounting points all seem to be fairly solid so gave them a quick once over with a wire brush and then some black paint to protect them a little:
Before:
After, not perfect but a lot better and hopefully will help it last a bit longer:
Front caliper 50/50 cleaned up:
Front caliper fully cleaned up:
New rear disc, pads, caliper and brake pipe (just the little solid pipe that goes from caliper to flexible pipe - I wouldn't have known where to start with that but Murray just made one up in a couple of minutes :drinking: ):
New front disc, pads and caliper all cleaned up:
all back together and back on the ground looking much better:
Can't wait to paint the calipers red as they'll look so much nicer but even just cleaned up they look a lot better.
The new brakes feel really nice, obviously only done about 20 miles with them but they're silky smooth with plenty of progressive bite. Really impressed with the delphi stuff that I got, well packaged, came with everything you needed, little fitting kit bits etc and seems to be nice quality.
Couldn't have done it without my friend Murray and having the car up on the lift just makes life so much easier!
Chris
ChrisGT:
Bit of Gtechniq C2v3 beading, it's amazing how well this product works and how long it lasts for just being a spray on/wipe off product.
I've also spent a bit of time going back through this thread and have edited my first post to make a thread guide and mods list so if anyone is looking for something in particular that I have done then it should be easier to find. I'll try and keep it updated as I do more as I do have quite a few more plans for the car and will post part numbers/useful info in there too. :happy2:
Chris
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