Don't worry, we were/are both .

Steve You remind me of a young me, not much younger mind, perhaps even a little older!

Andy. It was a right pita. I wonder if they could be replaced by stainless bolts? Would make it easier. I put copper grease in mine when I put it back together. I'm hoping this will help next time. You remind me of a young me, not much younger mind, perhaps even a little older!

sasdiscos wrote:

Oh, and Stan, many thanks for the thumbs up. More than can be said for some other people.....

Sorry Steve, I've updated my original post....



P.S. You left your locking wheel nut key on the wheel in that last picture, hope you remembered to take it off before you went out for a drive..... Pete

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2014 L405 Autobiography SDV8 4.4 Loire Blue Ebony interior
2011 L322 Vogue SE 4.4 TDV8 Baltic Blue. Parchment over Navy Interior. Sold
2012 L322 Autobiography 5.0 Supercharged Ipanema Sand, Jet Interior. Sold
2002 L322 Vogue 4.4 V8 Epson Green, Ivory over Aspen Interior (Fatty Offroader) Sold
-Click for Project Fatty off roader-

Sorry, just read your last post.... did hear when I had the Merc with alloy callipers that you shouldn't use copper based anti seize as it rots the alloy, they do a special one for alloy.... Pete

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2014 L405 Autobiography SDV8 4.4 Loire Blue Ebony interior
2011 L322 Vogue SE 4.4 TDV8 Baltic Blue. Parchment over Navy Interior. Sold
2012 L322 Autobiography 5.0 Supercharged Ipanema Sand, Jet Interior. Sold
2002 L322 Vogue 4.4 V8 Epson Green, Ivory over Aspen Interior (Fatty Offroader) Sold
-Click for Project Fatty off roader-

Haylands, wasn't referring to you matey, so unsure of what the updated post was about. I was actually referring to my wife at the time but as I had had a few I didn't finish my post.

And I didn't know that about the copper grease. Looks like ill be stripping it all down again then. Still think it might be better to drill out and put in a stainless steel bolt.

As for the wheel nut key, yup I did remember to take t off, Im actually thinking of binding them off all together and just replacing with normal nuts.

Apparently lots of people have had them shear off, this is being due to them being made in two parts, then leaving you to drill out the nut. Not good.

Steve You remind me of a young me, not much younger mind, perhaps even a little older!

sasdiscos wrote:

Andy. It was a right pita. I wonder if they could be replaced by stainless bolts? Would make it easier. I put copper grease in mine when I put it back together. I'm hoping this will help next time.

I've done some research on copper grease on alloy and I can't find any evidence that it will be a problem.

Fingers crossed.

Steve You remind me of a young me, not much younger mind, perhaps even a little older!

A grand looking job there, Steve - what did you use to paint the callipers with?

Looks good mate, nice write up.

Hope you didn't forget to remove the locking wheel nut lock mate.
I have experience from an old car in the past, believe me it's a pain in the neck! Dan

2002 Zambezi Silver

Men And Motors RR Quote - It's like having wheels fitted to your living room!

Yes, locking wheel nut removed

Paint is two pack. Don't know the actual red tho. I can find out.

Steve You remind me of a young me, not much younger mind, perhaps even a little older!

HI all,

I'm ready to do the upgrade to my up-to-05 FF with the BMW calipers.

I'm going to use the 4-pot Brembos from a 4.2 SC/3.6 TDV8.
I cannot find a reliable source online however as to what the part numbers are for everything. Backplates especially seem an issue as no-one seems to know if the 4-pot backplates and discs are the same size 6-pot ones, or a size inbetween these and the smaller BMW ones. I'm also struggling to find a caliper part number, I dont trust searching by model type/year as I know some TDV8s had awful 2-piston calipers for a while!
I know that the easy way around the backplate problem is to trim the existing plates, but mine need to come off anyway as they have rusted to pieces so I want to replace them properly!

Finally, I assume the brake hose fittings on the caliper are the same as on the BMW ones?

Ta,
Matt NW060

"Red Shed" - 1982 Series 3 88" County Station Wagon
"Spirit of Great Britain" - Rolls Royce Meteor V12 engine
ZG875 - Westland Sea King (cockpit section)
"Carly Rae Jeepsen" - 2006 Jeep Commander 5.7 Hemi
"Pride Of The Road" - 1/4-scale Marshall traction engine - sold
"Georgina" - 2000 Discovery 2 TD5 ES - sold
"Windsor" - 2005 Range Rover Vogue 4.4 - dead

I have a 2009 face lift ff se vogue tdv8 3.6...will this upgrade be ok for it 😁😁😁😁

mat777. Let us know how you get on fitting the four pot Brembos. As I wouldn't mind swapping mine next & would like to see how it goes

Hi, can I make P&P uprgade from 4 pot brembo calipers (3.6 tdv8 2008 model) to 6 pot brembo calipers?

I need to do this:
1) 6 pot calipers
2) discs
3) dust shields
4) Pads
5) difrent sensor

I have a whole used set to buy from a 5.0SC 2010 model and I wonder if it's worth it

NO sir... The six pots wont fit as the hub bolts for the six's are much bigger then those on the four pots...