Fitting Boxster S disks 987

[ryan987]

Hi Guys

Just had my local OPC tell me I need new disks and pads all round on my 2005 16000m boxster S!! Slightly anoyed due to the low milage of the car but I can see they're corroded. Price to do this is £673 fronts and £ 613 real (inc vat and fitting)

I've just sourced genuine front pads, disks and sensors for £445 and was wondering if anyone has any advice about fitting these themselves?

Rear genuine disks were £87+vat each

Any help would be appreciated

Ryan

[Geneve]

Surely the corrosion on the discs can be skimmed.

Common problem, simple solution - if the discs are thick enough.

[Vr6-er]

Some are saying that this is a load of b0ll0cks. OPC's are saying replace and indi's are saying there's nowt wrong with them.

I have 19k miles on my 987 and have been told the same 2 weeks ago. I'm going to ignore the OPC, my brakes are fine.

[MogulBoy]

It's all in here (for the 986) and I assume no significant differences.

The only tool you need that you might not have is a 10mm hex allen key to remove the caliper bolts.

You are supposed to buy new caliper bolts and these are cheap. It's the fitting kits (springs) that cost an unreasonable amount but you can reuse these.

http://www.bombaydigital.com/boxster/projects/brak...

If you have bought non OEM disks then it's worth the effort to pain the hubs (and the circumference of the disks) with zinc paint as otherwise they will look crap when they rust.

I used sebro disks and found that although they came pre-painted, the colour was too dark and the paint very soft so I rubbed them down with wire wool kitchen pan scrubbers and painted them. Took a couple of hours but they still look great.

[onomatopoeia]

Vr6-er said:

Some are saying that this is a load of b0ll0cks. OPC's are saying replace and indi's are saying there's nowt wrong with them.

I had a similar experience on my 986.

[The Griffalo]

Easy job, takes about half an hour a side, probably a bit longer the first time. You'll also need an impact driver to remove the disc retaining screws but there really isn't anything particularly difficult about the job. If you've done a disc and pad change on anything else, the Porsche is easier

[rude-boy]

First thing i'd do is get someone on here to recommend a local indi to you.

Next get them to have a butchers at the disks and pads and give them your opinion.

9/10 it will be to skim them.

[wildoliver]

Had my old mans skimmed cost................£15 cash.

Plus £30 for pads cheap job!

[ryan987]

Hey guys, thanks for the info. My OPC (bournemouth) picked it up in the service back in Dec, I didn't really believe them so paid £30 to my local Indi to check them over. I didn't tell him the verdict from the OPC but he actually said the same. Bit of a pain.

Anyway I left it and tracked the car at Brands on Tues, when on my last lap the pad indicator came on

Basically I managed to get another 3k miles and a track day out of the pads where as my OPC recommended they were changed.

Do you have to take the disks off to have them skimmed? So in theory I could just have all 4 disks skimmed and fit new pads all round and its job done!?

[wildoliver]

Yes you do have to remove them, and yes provided they don't need to much material removing which unless they have been skimmed a couple of times before they should be fine.

[purds]

I had the same on my 986S but ignored the OPC until the brakes eventually really did lose a significant amount of their stopping power (probably a year + after first flagged up by OPC.)
Took off the pads myself and the inside faces were very badly corroded - no way would skimming have resolved this as the surface had very deep pitting.
Replaced myself and took about an hour for both fronts.
Very easy job and a major saving over paying someone to do it for you.
Good luck.

[MogulBoy]

wildoliver said:

Yes you do have to remove them.

Errr no.

I was shocked to discover recently that you can actually have disks skimmed on the car these days!

I can't find the original link I found but here is a rusty old Rover having its disks skimmed in-situ.....

http://forums.mg-rover.org/showthread.php?t=191683

Never heard of a Porsche being done but I imagine that it is possible....but it's such an easy job to remove them, I can't imagine that it's a real benefit.