So today I got round to fitting my new rear calipers, I will probably try and do a little how to guide as I noticed there isn't anything in that section of the forum regarding rear calipers and seeing as these cars aren't getting any younger it is no doubt a common problem and will help a few people out tackle the job themselves as it's not at all difficult
I do apologise for some of the pictures as it was quite sunny today and trying to get the camera to focus properly was proving to be a challenge in itself.
So first thing to do was to get the rear of the car jacked up and secure on axle stands with the wheels off.
Once the car is jacked up, reach inside and removed these screws from the handbrake console (note there is one on the other side as well)
Once that is done, remove the handbrake console and you shall be greated with the handbrake cables
Take your trusty 12mm spanner and loosen (anti clockwise) the centre nut fixing,
You should loosen it a fair amount as I shall explain later, something so that it looks like this
I then removed the handbrake cable from the caliper, I did this by using a 1/2 socket extension and pushing down on the lever, this allowed me to push it down far enough and with the help of the slack cable from what I loosened off in the cabin to just pull the cable away from the caliper.
The last part for the cable is that its bracket is bolted to the caliper, so lay down and you will see these 2 bolts holding the bracket to the caliper. A 12mm socket and an extension on a ratchet will get these removed nicely.
That's everything to do with the handbrake removed
That just leaves to remove the caliper mounting bolts. Once those are removed the caliper may be a bit stuck in place, just took a flatblade screwdriver to pry the caliper away from the pads
Note I left the fluid line on the caliper because I wanted to get everything transfered onto the new caliper and that all bolted up to reduce the air getting in the system, so just tuck the caliper to the back on the rear control arm.
Just for my sake of being OCD I decided to check how much meat I had left on the discs and pads so I measured them up with a vernier caliper
And the disc measurement
So there was plenty of life left in them, the discs were still reading 10mm thickness and the pads had loads of life left in them yet so quite pleased with that.
Then it was time to pull the sliders out, out came the top, not looking too shabby.