Removing Front Brake Pads

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Remove wheel. → Removing Wheel .
Remove the safety bracket and extract the retaining pin inwards.

Fig 1: Removing Front Brake Pads
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Pull out the warning contact wire on the brake calliper and remove the warning contacts from the brake pad plates.
Remove brake pads using the brake pad puller. Always observe the following important points:

If necessary, remove a little brake fluid from the reservoir by suction in order to prevent an overflow when the disc brake pads are pushed back.

Press the brake pads back as far as possible using the piston reset tool. Piston reset tool Nr.144 .

Pull out brake pads together with the vibration dampers. If this is not possible (depending on the amount of wear on the brake pads), use a spatula to detach the vibration dampers from the brake pad backing plate before removing the pads.