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Originally Posted by StealthBomber
Many thanks for this Steve. Saved my bacon - I'd never have worked out how to back off the park brake (EMF) without this.
I'd add a couple of refinements to your operation:-
- You need a 15mm spanner to hold the back nut on the calliper as you undo the 13mm nuts.
- I found it easier to unbolt the calliper bolts and remove the assembly before removing the EMF as the EMF bolts are easier to access that way.
- It is possible to bolt the EMF actuator on 180 degrees out if you do it before refitting the assembly - be aware!
- The EMF piston is easily wound out (clockwise!) using a 7mm allen key.
- You need to have the handbrake OFF in order to reset the pad wear indicator.
- The handbrake and auto-hold all just reset automatically.
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I successful replaced my rear rotors and pads on my 2011 x3 (F25) using the same steps outlined here. However, after my parking brake does nothing and the Auto H just displays a message about manually applying brakes.
Anyone have any experience with those issues?
------- EDIT - June 3, 2016 ------------
I had my local BMW service dept, where I have a good service "advisor", look at it quickly and they resolved it, for free, and only listed these details:
"REAR BRAKES NOT CALIBRATED AFTER REAR BRAKE REPLACEMENT BY OUTSIDE SHOP. PROPERLY CALIBRATED REAR ELCTRO MECHANICAL BRAKE CALIPERS"
I'm not what they exactly did to calibrate it...