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[SeanEP3]

My fronts are sticking yet again, 3rd time now. each time ive bought 2nd hand.

going to now look at refurbed or new calipers, but obviously looking for a good price, and ideally, proper nissin ones.

anyone got suggestions?

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[yella]

most local motor factors will do them, on exchange basis. Usually £60 for a rear caliper and £80 for a front caliper. These are the same as brand new, except they have been on a car before being professionally refurbed. if you can i would replace in pairs usually as you'll need to do discs and pads on the axle you change, so if the other one goes shortly after time you've wasted fluid, discs and pads on it. at circa 100k most CTR's start having issues with calipers

[gatecrasher3]

If you can manage without the car for a few days I would recommend www.biggred.co.uk to have your existing calipers refurbished.

They did a really good job on mine and are way cheaper than £165 per side.

[SeanEP3]

do FN2 calipers go straight on?

[1812_s]

If you can manage without the car for a few days I would recommend http://www.biggred.co.uk to have your existing calipers refurbished.

They did a really good job on mine and are way cheaper than £165 per side.

How much do they charge of you send yours off to refurb ?

[gatecrasher3]

It was a couple of years ago now.

They charged me £169 to refurb the calipers and coat them and the carrier brackets in a red polymer coating.

[AdamB92]

Just got a set of rears from Brakes international, the fronts from them are £89 each plus £30 surcharage so you have to send your old ones back. Mine are spot on although when it came to bleeding the nnipples they used were longer than original and they wouldn't bleed properly, just a case of swapping the nipples round from the old calipers.

[SeanEP3]

anyone got an experience in refurbing themselves?

easy to do at home?

mate gave me a set of fn2 front calipers, so wouldn't mind having a go if its easy enough?

[Adi-R]

Its really easy to rebuild a caliper. Just watch some youtube video how-to's and the copy them!

[shaRRpy]

Time for these: :cooldude:

[1812_s]

anyone got an experience in refurbing themselves?

easy to do at home?

mate gave me a set of fn2 front calipers, so wouldn't mind having a go if its easy enough?

Refurbished my front ones at home Sean. Bought a rebuild kit of eBay. £30 comes with new piston and seals.

Used my air compressor to pop the piston out but there are other methods of removing them. After piston is out just clean the bore up really good. If you can get a small electric wire brush type thing it will be really helpful on Grove in which the dust seal sits as quite a bit of surface rust builds up there. ( I didn't have one so had to do the best I could removing it manually)

http://civictype-r.co.uk/forum/viewtopi ... &start=140

[SeanEP3]

nice one bud, i'll give it a go I reckon. cant be that hard!