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[jmmini]

I bought some break disk covers on here (fully satisfied with them :)) and I want to know if you have to fit them in two pieces or as a whole because the bolts that hold them togethrr are ceased up.

Cheers. Joel

Edited by jmmini, 02 August 2012 - 05:26 PM.

[freshairmini]

I think 99% of the time everyones disk covers are fused together with rust!

Mine are, and they just take a little wiggling to remove, so its fine.

[tiger99]

Just curious, do people generally still fit these? I ask only because very few modern cars seem to have them, and the brakes work ok without them, yet they were standard fitment on almost all older cars. Does the Mini have a special need for them, or has something changed, maybe just the knowledge of the brake manufacturers?

[jmmini]

So they are fitted in two pieces or as one? my old ones rusted off so i dont know. This is the but that I'm on about.

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Edited by jmmini, 02 August 2012 - 06:11 PM.

[tiger99]

I think freshairmini has already answered your question. From his answer, it would be fiddly but possible to fit them without undoing the bolts, so yes, you can leave them as they are. Of course, if you are a perfectionist (and there is nothing wrong with that), you will get out the angle grinder or drill, get rid of the rusted bolts, and fit new ones.

[Cooperman]

Most people don't fit them. They are completely unnecessary and are just rust-traps. Unless you need total originality, as in a concours car, then don't bother.

[mini-luke]

And ths fact that the brackets snap and you pull over thinking something important's broken!

[tiger99]

Cooperman. and mini-luke, thank you for confirming what I suspected.

[Cooperman]

When the Cooper with disc brakes came out I stopped on a rally thinking a wheel bearing was breaking up. It was a stone which had got behind one of the covers. We lost about 5 minutes defining the problem, so we took the covers off, never to be re-fitted!