How to change your front brake pads on your 2007 Range Rover Supercharged with Brembo Brakes

Here is the procedure for anyone changing the front brake pads and has the high performance Brembo brakes.

You'll need:

• Brake pads: HB683Y.651 LTS Brake Pad
• Brake pad wear sensor front: URO Parts SEM500050 Front Brake Pad Sensor
• Fluid withdrawal tool: Car Fluid Withdrawal
• Brake fluid: Motul DOT 5.1 Brake Fluid - 1/2 L. 8070HC / 100951

Now for the procedure:

First of all remember you have to remove your front wheels and suck some of the brake fluid out of the reservoir. So I recommend using this tool: Car Fluid Withdrawal to suck as much of the brake fluid as you can from the reservoir, Then properly set up your car and remove the front wheels. Wearing goggles is not a bad idea since that clip love to jump.

With a hammer and a thin punch start tapping the brake pad pins out. Be careful and make sure you make a clean hit with the pin so you don't cheap that beautiful caliper. In my case the beautiful caliper is hidden in all that dust... and make sure you hold the punch straight not like in the photo, I just did that to take a photo. Repeat for the bottom pin.

As you punch the pin out of place, it'll become loose and you will be able to take it out by hand, or pliers, but put your hand and hold the tension clip so it doesn't jump (wearing goggles is not a bad idea at this time). Then neatly put your parts aside.

With the pins and slip out of the way, you can place a screwdriver between the rotor and the pad and pry to push the pistons back. Make sure that the tip of the screwdriver is pushing against the pad so you don't scratch the rotor and create another problem since we are not changing them. When the pistons are all the way back take out the respective pad.

Now go to your pads, make sure you grease the sides of all four pads with white grease.

Place the new pad in place, and repeat the pushing back of the pistons for the other brake pad. Then take it out and place the new pad in its place.

When both pads are in place, put the pins and the tensoin bracket back in place, use goggles, and tap them with your hammer first like in the photo below, and then with your punch. Make sure the braket is clean and dead in the middle, you can adjust it with the screw driver but always wear goggles in case that sucker jumps.

With all you pieces back in place, is time to go to the other side, assuming you started on the passenger (right) side. If you started on the left side where your sensor is, then you have to remove the sensor (back before your removed the pad) and place the new one back in place. To do that read on.

Remove the brake pad wear sensor, you can just pull it with the pliers. If it comes apart is ok we got a new one :D.

Look at how the old sensor is routed and clipped in place. Look at the pic in case yours wasn't properly routed.

The sensor connects at the following little box. The box opens flapping down.

Notice the white wire on the following pic, that's the routing of the new sensor. Make sure the sensor is connected like the old one was, and is properly routed so it doesn't rub anywhere. Then make sure the tip of the sensor clips cleanly on the pad so you don't get a light. I place the tip by hand into the pad then push it carefully with pliers.

And that's it, after you've done this procedures for both sides (only the left side has a brake pad wear sensor) just make sure you fill your reservoir with new brake fluid and depress the brake pad several times with the car off. The pedal should evenually feel hard. This is to make sure everything is tight. Make sure you use the right pads, any crappy brand will make noise and won't perform like Land Rover brakes do.

How to change the front air strut on your Range Rover (2003 and up)

The title says it, here is the procedure for replacing your right front air spring, in case you have a leak. Is not that hard to do, just take your time and having a friend ready is always good, but I can do these with my eyes closed and by myself, so you should too.

What you'll need:

• Arnott Right Front Air Strut  
• Silicone Lubricant 
• TEKTON Stubby Wrench Set
• Thin Wrench Set Metric  

Procedure:

Crack the wheel lug nuts first then set up the car. Jack up the car and secure it in Jackstands. Then you need to remove the respective front wheel.

Now to the top, undo the three 16 mm nuts and remove the black plastic cap.

I like to place the nuts inside the plastic cap so you don't lose them.

Now the bottom, with the wheel removed, you have to unclip the lines that attach to the suspension strut. There is a brake line, a brake pad wear sensor if you are on the right side, and wheel speed sensor.

Here is a pic of the lines unclipped.

Now you have to undo the sway bar link, with a thin wrench 18 mm and an 18 mm socket. In the pic you can see how the thin wrench is supposed to hold the sway bar link.

Remove it, you might need to pry on the sway bar to ease it out.

Now you need to undo the nuts and bolts that connect the strut to the spindle.

Now the strut can come down, but there is an ait line still attached to the top. I like to rest the bottom of the strut in the drive shaft, and with a stubby 12 mm wrench undo the line.

The new strut comes with a new line fitting. Undo it and DON'T LOSE THE LITTLE RING INSIDE when you take it out. Also remove the nuts that come with the new strut.

 The new ring and fitting.

Take the old ring and fitting from the old line.

Place the new one in place. Make sure they fit in the following manner. There are instructions that come with your strut too in case of doubt.

Now you have to rest the new strut in the drive shaft. Then attach the line to the new strut and tighten it with your 12 mm stubby.

With one hand you have to push the strut up and align the studs into the holes. with another hand catch one of the old nuts. I know the strut came with new nuts but they are not locking nuts like the original land rover, so I like to put the old nuts. Catch the three nuts by hand. 

Catch the sway bar link, and catch the bolt by hand then tighten with the thin 18 mm wrench and the 18 mm socket.

Here is a pic of how I pry on the sway bar to make it easy to catch the link to the strut.

Now align the spindle holes with the strut holes and push the bolts through. Easier said than done.

Catch the nuts by hand and then tighten.

Spray with sylicon spray the lines and catch them back in place.

Tighten the top 16 mm nuts.

Place your wheel, lower the car and don't forget to tighten those lugs!

How to change the window regulator assembly on your Land Rover Range Rover Sport

So your window stopped working. Well it's ok its a common problem on these cars. The good news is that your most likely problem is your window regulator. This is easy to test. If you hear the that something wants to move then look down through the window hole. If you see two white assemblies moving then your regulator is ok and your glass clips are broken (like the car in this procedure, had broken clips) but you have to take your regulator anyways to fix them, so one way or the other you are doing this...

I strongly recomend this product it makes taking the door panel much easier and you won't scratch anything. 11Pc Auto Trim Door Panel Window Molding Upholstery Clip Removal Tool Kit Is only 20 bucks but you can use it for unclipping  and working in any door panel without scratching it. I have my set.

Here is the procedure on how to change it.

First off you need to pull the tweeter speaker: Just grab it and pull the top, then pull the front upwards to undo the clip then sllide it forward. If you pull the top and look with a flash light you'll see what I'm talking about.

Now you need to pull this plastic cover in your door handle.

With the cover off, you need to remove these three screws. The one on the right of the pic needs a bigger screwdriver.

The door panel has a grand total of five screws as seen in the pic below (the first three you should already have removed in the previous step). The screw at the handle has a little cover. I recommend removing this cover with a razor blade.

With all five screws neatly removed (I hope you are making note of where they go!) you can pull the door panel. Start at the bottom and work your way to the top. Then pull up on the door panel because at the top it attaches with some pain in the behind clips. With the door panel detached, you have to undo the three connectors for the window switch, the connector for the courtesy light and the cable for the door handle (should just pull out.)

Now you have to remove the speaker, just undo the connector and remove the four screws. This is when we figure what is going on. 



Three possible scenarios.

• The window retaining clips broke. This is what happened to this car. Here is a pic of the stupid window retaining clips. So peak through the hole for the speaker and try to see the bottom of the glass to see if this is what happened. If everything seems attached then this is not your problem. If this is your problem then you need to fish the glass out. This is hard and a pain I know but dont worry so much about scratching the glass because... (as of today)... you have to replace the whole glass. Dumb Land Rover won't sell you the clips separately. With the glass out just continue the steps.

 

•  The second possibility is that your regulator broke, in which the retaining clips are still attached but the cables or something else gave out. A bad regulator usually comes with lots of pieces at the bottom of the door assembly.
• Thirds scenario is that your motor is bad, in which case you need a new regulator assembly because the motor comes with the regulator.

Now you need to remove the glass. If the retaining clips broke you can just fish it out. If not then you need to detach it. This involves placing a screwdriver carefully not to scratch the glass between the glass and the clip and releasing it. Here is a pic of the clip so you know what I'm talking about. The top part is what you are prying. The fish out the glass carefully.

 

Now with the glass removed remove the four bolts and two nuts that hold the regulator.

Twist the regulator 90 degrees and fish it out.

 Reverse the procedure to install. The only thing that is a bit confusing (but you can figure it out if you made it this far) is attaching the door cable to the door handle. Make sure the panel is able to open the door before you clip the panel back in place!