Cupra Rear Brake Calipers

chr1sd

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Mar 16, 2014
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Changed rear discs and pads today on my 2007 cupra and the calipers were in a right state. I had to use a breaker bar on the end of my rewind tool to get the pistons back in. Anyway, after resembling them i could turn the wheel by hand but it wasn't spinning freely. And as i thought, the rear wheels are hot after driving. the car rolls so they don't appear to be totally seized, but are obviously rubbing. Has anyone had to replace rear calipers before. Not something i expected to have to do after just 60k miles.
 

chr1sd

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Mar 16, 2014
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Newcastle Upon Tyne
New calipers and brake pipes later.... shiny :)
And feels like ive taken 2 ton of sand out my boot. must have been biting on for a while.

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AlexK1

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Apr 20, 2014
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Looks much better with new shiny parts on! I've got to do my rear brakes next month so hopefully won't find the same problem


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Dodsy

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Dec 30, 2012
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Seized rear calipers are common across the whole leonmk2/golfmk5 platform


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chr1sd

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Mar 16, 2014
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Newcastle Upon Tyne
drives like new now, must have been biting on for a while. Not bad really, i got the calipers from Eurocarpart's for £106 each. All told for new discs, pads, calipers and pipes came to £330. If anyone ever needs to replace the calipers, i would pickup some new brake pipes. Mine split trying to separate them from the flexi section.
 

AlexK1

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Cheers for the advice. I was pricing up brakes all round and was just looking at standard discs with the ds2500 pads and upgrade brake pipes to HEL or Goodridge


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ClarkBoyJr

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May 7, 2014
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if the calipers werent badly seized you can most of the time unseize them by working the piston on the calipers back and forth and squirt some wd40 to help aswell and just clean up the sliders aswell ! atleast you sorted the brakes though
 
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