Would u believe I did this job on my neighbours A3 sportback today. Calipers, discs and pads. Took me 3 hours. When I looked at the job I broke my piston retraction tool trying to retard the piston !! So likewise recommended new calipers. You,re ment to bleed the caliper fully before touching the handbrake connection or reconnecting the cable. Everything went to plan today and I bled the whole system, got rid of old/ green brake fluid.
@@duncan649I agree; I read online (auto doc) was 155NM, and Audi forum was 180-200Nm plus 180 degrees then somewhere else said just do it tight enough with a breaker bar making sure not to over tighten is so I thought sod it; I’ll just tighten it to 200nm that’ll be enough. After torquing I felt the nut with a breaker bar and it felt like if I went anymore something would go wrong so my gut instinct felt like 200nm was more than enough. Furthermore when losing the original nut (m18) it felt lose and didn’t take much to undo. Apologies for the long paragraph. This is my experience 😂
@@claireholdsworth5189 . Yeah. I recently changed the front bearings on my son's Audi, so naturally I didn't want the wheels to fall off! Used breaker bar to tighten 'enough' and they ain't fallen off yet!
Nice job and video ! I had to change the same caliper too ^^ And now wheel bearing on the other side but I ordered the wrong size on xzn thanks to AUTODOC how to 🙄
great info content m8,184k is good i have 1.6tdi A3 10 plate,they do moon miles,top car.😁
Nice job! Thanks for superb video
Bearing 30mm or 32mm? my audi a3 1.6 TDI 77kw.
Très bien
Would u believe I did this job on my neighbours A3 sportback today.
Calipers, discs and pads. Took me 3 hours.
When I looked at the job I broke my piston retraction tool trying to retard the piston !! So likewise recommended new calipers.
You,re ment to bleed the caliper fully before touching the handbrake connection or reconnecting the cable.
Everything went to plan today and I bled the whole system, got rid of old/ green brake fluid.
The wheel bearing bolt torque is 180 N.m + 180° ? Pretty tight.
looked overtight to me whatever the manual said.
@@duncan649I agree; I read online (auto doc) was 155NM, and Audi forum was 180-200Nm plus 180 degrees then somewhere else said just do it tight enough with a breaker bar making sure not to over tighten is so I thought sod it; I’ll just tighten it to 200nm that’ll be enough. After torquing I felt the nut with a breaker bar and it felt like if I went anymore something would go wrong so my gut instinct felt like 200nm was more than enough. Furthermore when losing the original nut (m18) it felt lose and didn’t take much to undo. Apologies for the long paragraph. This is my experience 😂
@@claireholdsworth5189 . Yeah. I recently changed the front bearings on my son's Audi, so naturally I didn't want the wheels to fall off! Used breaker bar to tighten 'enough' and they ain't fallen off yet!
Nice job and video !
I had to change the same caliper too ^^
And now wheel bearing on the other side but I ordered the wrong size on xzn thanks to AUTODOC how to 🙄
My current issue is whether I should follow AUTODOCS' instructions regarding an XZN #16 or the XZN #18 as he uses.
Can you answer that?
@@MariusKold xzn 18 😉
I have a 2010 A3 TFSI and for the life of me I couldn't replace the rotor without having to take out the caliper bracket.
Your discs are bigger...
@@carstenhjorth5587 That must be it.