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[nicklouse]

Thanks niclouse,

I guess the lugs have been machined already or I had original mini flanges if they fit with the setup I had which was metro non vented (metro calipers and the thinner 8.4 metro solid discs).

Just wanted to look at my brake options with the flanges I have.

Cheers

The discs could well just be mini. With the metro calipers.

[lildeucecoop72]

The metro flange will need the 4 lugs machining off so it will fit most Mini wheels. But otherwise they are the same as long as they are not from a Vented set up.

Does that mean there are 2 types of metro flange? One for solid and one for vented?

[lildeucecoop72]

Thanks niclouse,

I guess the lugs have been machined already or I had original mini flanges if they fit with the setup I had which was metro non vented (metro calipers and the thinner 8.4 metro solid discs).

Just wanted to look at my brake options with the flanges I have.

Cheers

The discs could well just be mini. With the metro calipers.

Yes you are right, I had the thin solid 8.4 metro discs (GB364) and these worked with the metro calipers I had. I bought the standard 8.4 mini solid discs thinking this would be fine (21A2612MS) but these have a wider (thicker) breaking surface, and so they were too thick for the the orig metro calipers I had. They didn’t line up.
At first I thought it could be the flange, but I don’t think that is the issue. Probably just a bad mix of mini and metro parts that don’t interchange.

So that means I either…

A: have to keep the discs I bought and buy shined new 4pot calipers (from mini spares) and hope the flanges I have are correct (or spend more money on solid type mini flanges)

B (and cheaper option): repair the metro calipers I have (discussing this on another thread) buy and offer up the same solid metro calipers that I had before.