In this DIY video I explain how to replace the front brake pads and rotors on our Mk1 Volkswagen Tiguan which has a TSI 2.0T CCTA or CBFA EA888 Gen 2 engine. This process is identical for the following vehicles: Beetle, Jetta GLI, CC, Passat, GTI, & Eos.
Hey what’s going on everybody today i’ll be showing you how to replace the front brake pads and rotors on my wife’s mark 1 volkswagen tiguan they offer this body style between the years of 2009 and 2018. this has a 2.0 turbo tsi engine if you know a little bit more about these engines it has a ccta engine code let’s get started as far as tools i always use the least
Amount possible because i know not everybody has everything so starting off i have some gloves a couple rags handy some dot four brake fluid some anti-seize some brake parts lubricant a fluid remover for the brake fluid and the reservoir a bungee cord to hold up the brake caliper i have a brake pad piston compressor this is a specialty tool you don’t have to
Have one that looks just like this but if you have one that’s awesome if you don’t you can get by with a large pair of channel locks i have a wire brush a small 90 degree pick a small flathead screwdriver a long 3 8 ratchet a long half inch ratchet a large hammer to knock the rotors off have a half inch drive 17 millimeter socket half inch drive 21 millimeter
Socket a 3 8 drive t30 or torx 30. and then i have a 3 8 drive seven millimeter allen you’re also going to need a floor jack and two jack stands as far as everything you’ll need i have my brake rotors brake pads and set screws the brake pads with the clips go on the inside inside the piston of the caliper and the one with the sensor goes on the driver’s side
Hey if you guys could do me a huge favor real quick go hit that subscribe button for me i’d really appreciate it go ahead and remove the black caps from both wheels so to do that you just take your small 90 degree pick insert it into the hole and then you pull before you lift the car up off the ground you want to break loose all of those lug bolts right there if
You don’t break those loose before you lift it off the ground the wheel is going to turn on you and you can’t break them loose so to do that i have my long half inch ratchet with a 17-millimeter socket i’m going to break those loose lift the car up and then remove those so i’m pretty spoiled here and i have a car lift here so i’m going to lift the whole car up
But what you’re going to want to do is you’re going to want to put the floor jack where i have that arm right there and you’re going to jack the car up and then you’re going to place a jack stand on the pinch weld and lower the car down onto the jack stand we’re going to do that on both sides and then we’re going to remove both front wheels once you remove those
Be ready to catch the wheel because those are lug bolts not lug studs so once you take the bolts out the wheel is just going to fall down so go ahead and remove the cap for the brake fluid reservoir and then what i’m going to do is i’m going to stick it on top of this rag just so fluid doesn’t drip everywhere so the next thing i do is i take my flashlight and i
Put it up to the reservoir so that i can see the fluid level and if you look real closely you can see a minimum and a maximum mark so what i’m going to do is i’m going to take my fluid sucker and i’m going to take enough fluid out until it reaches the minimum line the reason for this is when we decompress the brake caliper the fluid is going to go upward and back
Into the reservoir and if we don’t do this it’s going to come out of the top of the reservoir and make a mess so that’s why i’m taking some of it out so i’ve got another rag and my fluid sucker so what you’re going to do is you’re going to squeeze this before you put it in you’re going to insert it into the reservoir and then you’re going to release and when you
Release that’s going to pull fluid up out of the reservoir into the sucker so once you get it down to the minimum line you’re going to pull this out and you’re going to catch it flip it over and pull it away next thing we need to do is remove this anti-rattle clip so what i do is i take a small flat head screwdriver gonna stick it in right there i kind of hold
Right here just wiggle up and kind of lever this way and then pull this over to the right and then i’ll just come to the bottom kind of the same thing and this clip comes off next thing we need to do is remove these two black caps for these slider pins so you can just get your fingernail behind it and remove that black cap there’s one up top right here as well
So looking at the slide pins they are a seven millimeter allen head so i have my 3 8 drive ratchet with a seven millimeter allen socket so we’re going to break those free lefty loosey and we’re going to loosen those all the way once the slider pins are loose what i’ll do is i’ll loosen this and then i’ll set it on top of the rotor now you just want to be careful
You just want to balance it right there go ahead and take a bungee cord and put it as high as you can on the spring and then you’re just going to hold the caliper you just don’t want it to fall down when we’re messing with the rotor go ahead and remove the outer pad so to do that and just pull it off as for the inner pad i’ll just take a finger on this side and
Finger on this side and kind of wiggle it downward it’s got these clips that clip up into the piston go ahead and put two lug bolts in about halfway by hand we’re going to use those to hold the rotor when we knock it off next thing we need to do is remove this pad carrier bracket and to do that there is a 21 millimeter bolt right here and another one right here
These are really tight so it’s going to take a lot of leverage so i have a long half inch ratchet with a 21 millimeter socket so go ahead and break those loose remove those bolts and when you remove those bolts be ready to catch this bracket what i do is i just lay it down on the ground in the same orientation because it can be confusing for people who don’t do
This every day and then you just put it right back up in the same orientation and then put the bolts in so now that i’ve got the pad carrier bracket off i just took it straight to the ground and laid it down in the same orientation so when i pick it back up it’s going to go on just like that and then you’re going to put the bolts in on the back side next thing
We’re going to do is we’re going to remove this set screw for the rotor it is a t30 or otherwise known as torx so the best method i find is to use an impact gun and that’s going to take it right off i know a lot of people aren’t going to have this so the next best option is going to be your ratchet with a little bit of length on it and then your socket so what
You’re going to do is because this is a very very shallow bolt or screw you’re going to apply pressure towards the rotor and then you’re going to break it free now more often than not the rotor is going to be rusted to the hub or the wheel bearing so i find the best route to get the rotor off is to just take a dead blow hammer and it only took me two hits to
Knock it free i’ve already knocked it free but this is what it’s going to look like once you knock it free go ahead and hold the rotor and remove those two lug bolts we had in there and then you’re just going to catch the rotor and bring it down to the ground go ahead and take a wire brush and brush off any loose rust don’t need to spend a lot of time you just
Want to get all that loose stuff off of there both of these slide pins are identical so just go ahead and push upward and remove them go ahead and take a rag and remove all of the old grease from the slide pins clean those off and then what i’m going to do is i’m going to take my brake parts lubricant and i’m going to lube these pins up i’m going to leave about
A fingers length right here without any grease on it so start at the bottom work your way all the way around and that’s it go ahead and take your slide pins take the side with the threads put those in first it’s going to go like that and you’re going to push it down until it’s flush right here do that for that one and the other one next we’re going to decompress
The piston up into the caliper i’ve actually already done it the video didn’t record when i was doing it but i’m still going to show you how to do it so there’s a different there’s a couple different ways you can do this you can have a specialty tool like this and what it’s going to do is it’s actually going to go in between right there you squeeze the handle and
It opens up i know most people aren’t going to have this tool so i’m going to show you the method that most people can do most people are going to have some kind of set of large pliers like this so what you’re going to do is you’re going to take the top joint right here put it on the outside of the caliper and then put the lower joint and you can put it on the
Bottom side of the piston right there like i said i’ve already compressed it but you’re going to put it like that and then you’re going to squeeze very slowly and that piston is going to go upward into the caliper right here uh you don’t want to go too fast because if you go too fast you can actually damage the master cylinder where the fluid reservoir is at so
You’re going to find the set screw hole on the hub or the wheel bearing then you’re going to do the same thing on the rotor it’s right there and you’re going to match those up you’re going to hold it up there line up the holes then you’re going to take your set screw and you’re going to tighten that down so you’re going to take your brake pad carrier bracket and
At least one bolt you’re going to bring it up in the same orientation just like that and then i like to start with the top one go ahead and feed that in by hand then once you got that in a few threads that’ll hold it up and then i’ll throw that bottom one in as well once you’ve got them both in by hand go ahead and tighten them both down so i have two lubricants
Here one is for the slide pins and one is for the brake pads we’re going to take this one and we’re going to put it right here on the brake pad right here right here right here and right here next up we’re going to take our inside pad the one with the clips and you’re going to put the rounded side towards the inside of the caliper now what we have to do is put
These two actually three fingers pretty much upward at the same time you don’t want to get it cockeyed because it really won’t go in right so you need to get them pretty straight and then you’re going to push upward go ahead and take your outside pad it’s going to go like this and you’re just going to hang it with those fingers so go ahead and release the bungee
Cable you can just let that hang there or remove it and then you’re going to take the caliper make sure that the line is not twisted right here and then you’re gonna you’re gonna feed it on just like that and then you’re going to hold it right there so right here we’re pushing the pin and we’re going to line it up with the threads so once you’ve got them lined
Up you can go ahead and tighten both of those down so now that my pins are lined up i’m just going to go ahead and tighten those down tighten them all the way go ahead and put your slide pin caps back on next we want to take our anti-rattle spring and put that back on so it goes like this so what i do is i put this right here and i put the bottom one in the hole
And then i take the top one and i barely put it in the hole right there and then what i’ll do is i’ll come over here just use my thumb to get it over that one right there so we’ve got both of these over both of them in the hole but what i’ll do now is i’ll take my my screwdriver and i’ll tap both of those all the way into the hole now the only difference on the
Driver’s side is the inside pad has a electrical connector for the sensor so what you’re going to do is you’re going to do the same process you’re going to put the caliper on and the cable is just going to feed upward in between the pad carrier and the caliper itself it’s going to go straight upward and that’s the connector right there so you’re just going to have
To release that connector i like to use a pocket screwdriver so what i do is just something like this and that releases it and then i can pull it off just like that so the routing it just kind of goes in between right there i’m going to get the flashlight on it just goes in between like that and then go straight upward to where we had it connected go ahead and
Put the wheels on insert the lug bolts and tighten them down by hand lower the vehicle down onto the ground and then torque them down after you torque them down you’re going to take your black caps pretty easy to put back on you just kind of center them up and then push in pump up your brake pedal until it’s stiff now what i’m going to do is i’m going to top off
The brake fluid but if we come down here and look real quick you can actually see that the fluid level raised from minimum to right in the middle so i’m going to top it off until it says maximum go ahead and reinstall your brake reservoir cap you want to make sure that this little finger right here goes in that groove right there on the right front corner last
Step is to drive the car about three to five miles with light to moderate braking you want to break the front brake pads in with the rotors so a lot of rotors nowadays come with a coating on them so there’s going to be a lot of scrubbing within those first few brake applications but that will go away and that’s it you’ve successfully performed a front brake job
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How to Replace The Front Brake Pads and Rotors | Mk1 Volkswagen Tiguan (2009-2018) By Red’s Volkswagen Repair
