Minutes. Time is taken up putting car on stands, removing wheels and a bit of bleeding etc.

I always replace all the carrier bolts as well. When I repkaced the caliper assembly, I also took the opportunity to replace the fkexible hoses that were starting to look a bit ragged. 2014 5.0 L405 Supercharged Autobiography & 2015 3.0SDV6 HSE Lux Discovery 4
2005 4.2 L322 Supercharged Vogue SE & 2011 3.0SDV6 HSE Discovery 4
2002 4.4 Vogue
2000 4.6 Vogue
2010 Freelander 2 TD4 HSE
2009 Freelander 2 TD4.e 2009
1992 Mercedes 300D
1986 Renault 2.1 Turbo D
1976 Morris Marina 1.8

pld118 wrote:

Thanks again for the interesting replies.

If I just buy new caliper carriers as suggested by Craig:

1. Will that be better for the new calipers, i.e can components fail on the old/ existing carriers that could later hinder the performance of the new calipers?

2. Does removing the old caliper carriers and fitting new caliper carriers make the fitting of new calipers, discs and pads a more complicated and much more time consuming job or are we talking minutes to swap the old for new caliper carriers?

Thanks.

1. The carriers have the calliper sliders built into them. So a replacement will have new sliders! But these rarely give any issues

2. The carriers have to be removed to change the disc anyway... So, won't incur any more cost or time from the original job

Thanks Craig