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Posted: **Thu Feb 05, 2004 6:39 pm**

posting this for a mate as he's knakered his brakes up today

Flyin Flea wrote:
s**t day!

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Need to fit some new rear brake pads to my A3 T-sport before I flog it (coz I moved it last week.... cept the chuffin pads had ceased to the disks... so when I moved the car, the fookin things were ripped outta their seats! ). So Ive spent aaaaall afternoon tryin to fit new pads.... cept, I cant get the pistons back into the calipers. Had clamps n all sorts on em, lil buggers just wont slide back. (Yes I did take the top off the fluid reservoir). So now Im just well n truely fooked off, that Ive spent all afternoon grazin me knuckles to not acheive nowt.
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Sooooo.... anyone got any ideas how the bugger you push the rear brake pistons back in on a '98 Audi A3??

* - They aint a tradition rear brake.... coz they're disk brakes, the handbrake somehow squeezes the caliper on to the disk. So Im guessin theirs some sorta self-adjuster I need to release... cept their aint nowt!
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Posted: **Thu Feb 05, 2004 6:45 pm**

Your mate will be pushing all day. To get the piston back on ANY rear caliper, you have to screw it in, that is why there are kinks in the piston. There is a special tool VW dealers have to do this or he can try his luck some other way, but that is the only way to do it.

Posted: **Thu Feb 05, 2004 6:48 pm**

cheers for your help mate

Posted: **Fri Feb 06, 2004 12:16 pm**

I know this tip is useless now, but you do not need a tool to push the piston back.

I've done it without, all you need is a heavy gauge spanner and brute force, use the caliper to put the spanner in at an angle and then push till your temples burst.

Des

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