[themishmosh]

So first time doing german car brakes. Was doing just the rears as the fronts appear to have some 10k miles left.

Problem 1: rotor was difficult to remove--the parking brake shoes were gripping the inner surface of the rotors. Was I supposed to relieve cable tension somehow? The parking brake lever was not activated.

Problem 2: I bought an aftermarket pad sensor. It seem like it was too big to fit in the slot on the pad. Eventually, part of it clipped in and the rest of the clip disintegrated. I also tried to carefully remove the stock sensor clip and it disintegrated too--brittle plastic.

Comments appreciated.