Removing and installing brake pads, rear brake CII 41: VW Golf Cabriolet
Step-by-step removing and installing brake pads, rear brake CII 41 for the VW Golf Cabriolet: 12 steps.
Workshop procedure for VW — the exact step sequence and torque figures, straight from real workshop data.
🧭 Before you start
Fits: VW Golf Cabriolet (517, 2011–2016)
- Opens: brake fluid
- Special tools named: T10165/1
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- Remove securing bolts from brake caliper, to do this counterhold on guide pins.
- Use only methylated spirits for cleaning the brake caliper housing.
- Ensure that brake pads are seated correctly in pad retainers (arrows).
📋 Procedure
- Remove rear wheels.
- Remove securing bolts from brake caliper, to do this counterhold on guide pins.
- Remove brake caliper and secure with wire so that weight of brake caliper does not strain or damage brake hose.
- Remove brake pads and anti-rattle springs (arrows).
- Thoroughly clean contact surfaces for anti-rattle springs (brake pads) on brake carrier, and remove corrosion.
- Clean brake caliper. [Note: Use only methylated spirits for cleaning the brake caliper housing.]
- Screw in piston by turning knurled wheel of piston compressing tool T 10165 clockwise, ensuring that protective cap is not damaged in the process.
- To aid screwing in, use special tool T10165/1.
- Insert pad retainers (arrows) and brake pads into brake carrier.
- Ensure that brake pads are seated correctly in pad retainers (arrows).
- Secure brake caliper with new self-locking bolts.
- Fit wheels. [Note: Repair kit contains 4 self-locking hexagon bolts for securing brake caliper. These must be installed under all circumstances.After every brake pad change, depress brake pedal firmly several times with vehicle stationary, so that brake pads are properly seated in their normal operating position.Check brake fluid level after changing brake pads.]
🎬 Related video tutorial
Independent AUTODOC tutorial for the same job, filmed on a different model (SHARAN 1) — the technique carries over, the fasteners and figures on this page are the ones for your car.
How to change rear brake pads on VW SHARAN 1
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TorqFix was built by a mechanic — after a 2,700 km drive with five roadside repairs that no diagnostic tool could explain.
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