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Changing rear brake pads on an Octavia

Stovepipe · 2018-01-22 11:13:56

Hi all, I recently changed my pads on the rear of my Skoda Octavia, which is a 2005 model. A few things came to light; there are three shapes of pads, some of which have springs attached and some which do not; the need to wind in the piston on the caliper meant that I needed the wind-in tool. It was easy to use but,…

22-01-2018 11:13am

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Hi all,
I recently changed my pads on the rear of my Skoda Octavia, which is a 2005 model. A few things came to light; there are three shapes of pads, some of which have springs attached and some which do not; the need to wind in the piston on the caliper meant that I needed the wind-in tool. It was easy to use but, curiously enough, only fitted the left-hand one and was slightly too small to fight the right-hand one so I had to use a long-nosed pliers to wind in the piston, which, thankfully, went in easily; the cheapest pack of aftermarket pads came with no new bolts or springs; the mid range price set (Borg) came with all new bolts and springs; to fit the right hand pad, I had to take off a thin, sheet-metal backing plate off the pad to get it to fit into the caliper. Clearly, my calipers are not an equal set, although they are identical to look at. Finally, to get the handbrake back into adjustment took quite a few turns of the nut, which is a 10mm nut buried behind the ashtray in the rear of the plastic console that the handbrake sits in. Start to finish, about an hour.

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