Member Since: 10 Mar 2017
Location: Gloucestershire
Posts: 1072
Rusty caliper slide pin
What would happen if you had 1 rusty slide pin?
Asking as a friend (who is more hopeless than me ) said he has just found the front passenger bottom slide pin is rusty and hard to slide (it does slide, but he says its jerky).
What damage will that do to his brakes, if any?
16th Mar 2019 5:19 pm
M3DPO
Member Since: 22 Sep 2010
Location: Notts.
Posts: 8043
Wear them out!- tell him to get it sorted It can when others can't,
It will when others won't,
It goes where others don't.
16th Mar 2019 5:24 pm
L319
Member Since: 14 Dec 2013
Location: Herefordshire
Posts: 2079
Pads will stick on, and cook the brakes.
16th Mar 2019 5:57 pm
Philip1972
Member Since: 10 Mar 2017
Location: Gloucestershire
Posts: 1072
Thanks.
He will need (in my opinion) to buy a new carrier and pins.
In the meantime I have told him to clean them up as good as he can and then lube thoroughly.
Cheers
16th Mar 2019 6:03 pm
Bardley
Member Since: 02 May 2018
Location: Hertfordshire
Posts: 437
The carrier maybe ok depending on severity here.
New slide pin kit, and clean out the carrier in first instance. Grease with silicon grease.
Best to do both sides while the tools are out.2011 MY D4 HSE
Previously 2001 D2 TD5, 1996 D1 300Tdi, 1985 90 2.2 petrol.
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16th Mar 2019 6:24 pm
Littlewill
Member Since: 14 Sep 2015
Location: Lincolnshire
Posts: 484
Agree ^^^ I had stuck sliding pins on my front passenger side. It wore the pads out really quickly and warped the disk towards the end as the pads would stick on after hard breaking! Much more expensive than a set of new slider pins.
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