Front Brakes

The Front brakes needed some fettling as when I was taking the driver side one off the main feed flexible pipe snapped off in the unit. At that point I figure it's not worth trying to loosen off the bleed nipples or any of the near side calliper fittings and cut the flexi on the passenger side and stuck them in a plastic box. 

Took them to GB Automotive in Wakefield who did a excellent job refurbishing them for only £265 which is much cheaper that the £475 online prices. 

New Pagid discs are from Euro Car Parts,  £110 for a front set which was the cheapest Pagid disc price I could find online. 

Got some new some new brake cooling baffles . These where difficult to source, but cheap. I had to get one for Rose Passion in France and the other from the USA which was a second hand brand new item. 

The plastic holder for the ABS and pad wear sensor was smashed on both sides so replaced them with some new units from Part Works in Germany. 

There is an earth wire connected to the shock which is for the ABS. This was brown wire on both sides had snapped where it connects into the connection block. New looms are expensive and hard to find. On eBay some 2nd hand units are £50-ish each and new units from £230 for both sides (on back order)

I ended up buying a second hand ones for the passenger and driver side from eBay

The old pads looked fairly new so gave them a light sanding and stuck them back in. 

Please with the end result 😍 

The brakes pads are shimmed, these shims where not present on my car but a quick search on the 944 Parts PDF and it clearly shows them as part 21 below. These shims are different sizes as the callipers have different sized pistons. The front and rear are actually the same calliper, each calliper needs two 40mm shims and two 36mm shims. So for the whole car you need 8 of each. On the forums they claim you don't need them but if they keep the copper grease and the back of the brake pad backoff the piston seals then they are worth it as when the seal split dirt and water can get into the piston edges and you have replace them and before you know it you getting them refurbished again.