The weather has been 'on and off' and have had to prioritise the nice days to garden jobs,but I did manage an hour on the brakes at the weekend. Been a mixture of good and bad - the Apec Discs look good but was surprised that the Apec Red Pads were 'directional' with no proper fitting instructions i...

Hi George Both our cars (2005 GV and 2008 Sportage) have 16'' wheels - I would not dream of changing them because they give that extra protection against our wonderful potholed roads - we do still try to avoid the worst of them - sometimes 'slaloming' along the road - but obviously one cannot always...

Forgot to say - that I have loads of other 'outside jobs' which have piled up during our non stop rains,I will have to prioritise them but will carry on with this job as and when I get the time.

I put this here because it reads over to other models esp Jimny etc We have a low mileage Grand Vitara 1600 (55k) which passed mot the other week with only 1 minor advisory. But I had had the front wheels off to clean up the pad carriers etc and noted that all the components were very corroded,one o...

Hi George I would say you are better off staying with the 17'' wheels,because I assume (rightly or wrongly) you would end up with lower profile 'rubber band' tyres with 19'' wheels ? Higher profile tyres cope better with potholed/uneven road surfaces and the occasional off road excursion and also lo...

Hi George
Welcome aboard from sunny perthshire

The various parts have been trickling in over the last 3 days so I will start my front brake 'refresh' as soon as (1) I catch up with other domestic outside jobs and (2) we get a few days of consistent dry weather.The weather up here has been wet wet wet with just an occasional dry day popping up so...

Hi Fb and welcome aboard

OK have given up trying to source some caliper brackets for the GV - they seem to be available for later models but not ours LOL So I have ordered all the basic parts - Apec Discs and Pads,Apec O/S flexy hose,Blue Print N/S flexy hose - all from https://www.ebay.co.uk/sch/i.html?_ssn=carpartsinmotio...

On the occasional dry day - I manage to get some car jobs done LOL I jacked up the N/S yesterday to have a close look at the front brake parts - and yes much the same as the O/S - all parts extremely corroded inc the slide pins (I managed to free off the upper slider again). Not a surprise really as...