Albi R27 452/500 (UPDATE - 19.02.2017 - The end)
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Thanks very much @Yiannis197
Agreed, but its already braking my heart trying to get in and out of the car and not rub on it or the upright bolster [MENTION=51430]Renault Wolverhampton[/MENTION] lol.
Top work, awesome looking car.
Replacement seat base, yet another thing that I need to do
Cheers man, the other option is to get it trimmed, but there wasn't enough of price difference to make me not but the whole new base [MENTION=4849]Jcs[/MENTION].
Message [MENTION=51430]Renault Wolverhampton[/MENTION], they will be able to tell you.
Out of interest, what were you quoted for a re-trim? I've been quoted £125 for the side bolster done, so curious what your price was
@Steve Murr quoted me £170 + postage as prices had gone up a lot since he first posted that he did them back in 2012.
Update 06.07.2014
As I was writing my last update I was interrupted by the door bell and I was greeted by a delivery driver with a selection of parcels for me.
Obviously I had a fair idea what was in them, but I still couldn’t wait to get them open. (Yes it was like Christmas arriving yet again)
A pair of dimpled and grooved discs from MTEC Brakes.
The smaller package was a set of Mintex Racing pads to compliment the discs.
I felt that when I was replacing the fronts it would be rude not to replace the rears at the same time, as the pads had never been done on the car. So a set of Mintex MDB1377 were also purchased.
Unfortunately yet more money had to be spent, this time in the form of a pair of axel stands from Halfords.
Yesterday saw me getting around to fitting the discs and pads to the car.
As you can see, the standard discs in place for the last time.
Found a good jacking point on the car that would give the best chance of getting the axel stands in place.
Cars hopefully not going to move anywhere now.
Wheel removed and just a quick check to make sure I know what I need to do.
Trying to punch the brake pins out. They were extremely hard to get moving and were by far the most time consuming part of the job.
Onto removing the calipers.
Cable tied out of the way, so they and the brake line don’t get damaged.
Now onto removing the disc. With the screws out it did take several good hits with a mallet to get them off.
Now for a wee clean up with a wire brush.
New discs in place.
Calipers now also back in place.
Pins and pads finally removed, thanks to giving the penetrating oil some time to work its magic.
Copper grease added to the new pads.
Everything now fixed firmly back in place.
The front pads had definitely seen better days. One of them even fell apart when being removed from the car.
And in typical Northern Irish fashion, when I had one side done it decided to rain on us and halt play for a bit.
The above process was then repeated for the driver side of the car, before moving onto the rear pads.
As I was writing my last update I was interrupted by the door bell and I was greeted by a delivery driver with a selection of parcels for me.
Obviously I had a fair idea what was in them, but I still couldn’t wait to get them open. (Yes it was like Christmas arriving yet again)
A pair of dimpled and grooved discs from MTEC Brakes.
The smaller package was a set of Mintex Racing pads to compliment the discs.
I felt that when I was replacing the fronts it would be rude not to replace the rears at the same time, as the pads had never been done on the car. So a set of Mintex MDB1377 were also purchased.
Unfortunately yet more money had to be spent, this time in the form of a pair of axel stands from Halfords.
Yesterday saw me getting around to fitting the discs and pads to the car.
As you can see, the standard discs in place for the last time.
Found a good jacking point on the car that would give the best chance of getting the axel stands in place.
Cars hopefully not going to move anywhere now.
Wheel removed and just a quick check to make sure I know what I need to do.
Trying to punch the brake pins out. They were extremely hard to get moving and were by far the most time consuming part of the job.
Onto removing the calipers.
Cable tied out of the way, so they and the brake line don’t get damaged.
Now onto removing the disc. With the screws out it did take several good hits with a mallet to get them off.
Now for a wee clean up with a wire brush.
New discs in place.
Calipers now also back in place.
Pins and pads finally removed, thanks to giving the penetrating oil some time to work its magic.
Copper grease added to the new pads.
Everything now fixed firmly back in place.
The front pads had definitely seen better days. One of them even fell apart when being removed from the car.
And in typical Northern Irish fashion, when I had one side done it decided to rain on us and halt play for a bit.
The above process was then repeated for the driver side of the car, before moving onto the rear pads.
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These definitely hadn’t seen the light of day since being put in place in the factory.
Copper grease added to the hub, to make removing the wheel a bit easier in future.
Everything now back in place and hopefully will give me better stopping power than what was in the car before.
The rear pads really had no life left in them, I’m just glad I chose to replace them when doing the fronts.
Now its just a matter of taking my time to run the discs and pads in, before seeing how good they really are lol.
I noticed last night that the thread on my gear know is starting to fray a bit, might have to look into a replacement.
Happy to see this figure appearing on the computer, it’ll be interesting to see what it truly works out at when I come to refill the car.
As always, I look forward to hearing your comments.
John
Copper grease added to the hub, to make removing the wheel a bit easier in future.
Everything now back in place and hopefully will give me better stopping power than what was in the car before.
The rear pads really had no life left in them, I’m just glad I chose to replace them when doing the fronts.
Now its just a matter of taking my time to run the discs and pads in, before seeing how good they really are lol.
I noticed last night that the thread on my gear know is starting to fray a bit, might have to look into a replacement.
Happy to see this figure appearing on the computer, it’ll be interesting to see what it truly works out at when I come to refill the car.
As always, I look forward to hearing your comments.
John
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Pav
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see uve got urself the same setup as me..u will not be disappointed.. truly amazing...u could have used some anti-squeal paste to make sure that they wont be too loud..might not be though-just a thought..
those rears looked bad before replacing..good job that u have done them too...good upgrade ull see..quite cheap as well:thumbup1: the discs will rust up just so u know..ud better get them painted....
those rears looked bad before replacing..good job that u have done them too...good upgrade ull see..quite cheap as well:thumbup1: the discs will rust up just so u know..ud better get them painted....
Good work John, think I will opt for the Mintex pads when mine are due for replacement later this year.
You need to do something about that MPG figure though, way too high
Lol yea I know [MENTION=50966]Adam93[/MENTION], I'm actually doing a wee experiment to see how high I can get the car to run with having the induction kit and decay fitted. It also fits in well with me having to run the breaks in at the minute.
Yea it was actually reading your posts that made me go down that route @Pav, so thanks for that. Their actually not that noisy at the moment so I can't really complain, and as for painting them I'll see how they go through the rest of the summer and might give them a pre winter cost if I think they need it.
Yea they seem to be a great upgrade so far @jimmyd81, but obviously I wont know how good until I get them run in, but going on @Pav's comments I definitely wont be disappointed.
Lol it all depends how heavy your right foot is @Chris91, I've had the car reading higher in the past but thats been over a short term after refilling. The 36mpg has been over the past 120miles, most of which were on B roads.
Front pads were about £60 and the rears were about £20, so both great value for money.
To be completely honest I didn't even notice that. I guess I'm gonna be busy tomorrow lol.
Pav
Moderator
yep..them discs need fitting on the right side..simple swap..hope u happy with ur setup..i cant praise them enough...
Update 07.07.2014
So after it being pointed out to me that I had a made a rookie mistake (god knows how I did this but I’m going to put it down to being distracted by the brake pins) I was up and at it early this morning to swap the discs round.
All good to go now.
I’m surprised more people didn’t pick up on it.
John
So after it being pointed out to me that I had a made a rookie mistake (god knows how I did this but I’m going to put it down to being distracted by the brake pins) I was up and at it early this morning to swap the discs round.
All good to go now.
I’m surprised more people didn’t pick up on it.
John
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