Sics Consolidated Faded Moderns Thread - 2006 Golf Mk5 GTI & 2004 BMW Z4 2.2

[The Reverend Bluejeans]

No, just Siemens. M54’s only ever used a Siemens engine management system, not Bosch.

[SiC]

#LivingTheDream

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While uploading that photo, I realised that garage door actually cost more than what those two heaps combined were to buy.

[Hooli]

Better build quality on a roller shutter door too I'd bet!

[SiC]

Better build quality on a roller shutter door too I'd bet!

The main mechanical bits are made by Somfy. Which is French.



So probably yes!

[SiC]

Had a quick flick through the history to see if I could find anything MAF related. I couldn't.
However I did find this receipt from 2008.

So the passenger seat mat has been broken for at least 16 years.

[SiC]

MOT booked for the 10th May

[christine]

New working module here , made by a great bunch of lads , safely removed from my scrapped Golf , should your fix fail though i expect you could knock one up in 5 mins yourself . Only a few bits in it ....

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[SiC]

It's all coded out so the car is happy without one now. Thanks anyway

[SiC]

If you own an Audi A8, the front bumper needs to be removed every weekend.
If you own a BMW Z4, the car needs to be raised every 200 miles...

I was going to chuck this into a garage to sort the handbrake, but I thought I'd at least investigate at first.
Put the parking brake in its service position. Basically latch off the handbrake lever spring. Took quite a bit of force to do that.

Out of the many old wrecks I've bought over the years, including a lot of British Leylands finest, I have never seen a handbrake ratchet worn out. I know there are a lot of BMW lovers and VAG haters on here but my 200k Golf is holding up on the miles much better than this 177k BMW. Nowhere near the same amount of trim, interior and part wear like this car.

 
I'm getting good at pulling BMW rear brakes apart now. Pads, caliper, caliper holder and disc all removed. Pretty obvious now what the issue with the handbrake and the rubbing noise I was getting was from.


That's the drivers side. The passenger side (where I actually thought the noise was from) was how it should be.

 
So what happened? Well the shoes are held in by spring retaining (beehive?) clips. These are mounted into the back-plate.
Which was rusted out completely.

Thankfully the bolts for the shield came out without snapping.

So new backplate time. These are supposed to be mounted by removing the hub and driveshaft. However I'm not doing that just for a backplate and handbrake mechanism. Far too much risk of ruining bearings and making this a much larger job.
Instead what I'm going to do, and most other people do, is snip off the caliper side and slot it in through the hub.
Basically an extra cut in the one I put in here. Just the one slot meant the backplate was pretty bent and warped it. It needs to be fairly flat for the handbrake setup to work properly.

 
I could get new backplates off eBay for £22 delivered. But won't arrive till Thurs or Fri. 
Instead Febi on Amazon to the rescue again and should be arriving today. I'm doing both sides as the other is pretty bad too and I don't want to be doing this again.

While I had the backend up, I removed the wheel arch liner to give the drains a good probe. Thankfully mostly clean and dry.

[The Reverend Bluejeans]

Cut and reweld is the best way. The rear wheel bearings never survive and you would have found the rear driveshafts rusted and seized into the rear hub anyway.