Took the wheel off this evening and undid the caliper. Didn't look too bad but pads were worn through.

Swapped pads for some old ones cadged off MrGorsky. Strangely I had new front ones in stock but no rear ones; clearly I was planning on looking at the brakes last summer and never got around to it. Or maybe did but front didn't need doing.

Wirebrushed everything and then noticed the bottom slide that although the bottom slide pin went in easily it wasn't as bouncy as the top one and didn't bounce out as much. Swapped it for an old one I had kept that felt better (rubber not so hard) and reassembled everything. Took it for a test drive and all fine.

Not sure if they were worn through and it was binding because past its usual range of motion or because slide pin was slightly stiff. Bit of a mystery.

Better order more parts for the weekend...
I've had that happen, let the pads wear too thin and pistons tend to stick in the caliper, once new pads are in no more binding after, freeing the pistons that is.
 
Started up for the first time since mot ran out at the start of December,
Almost almost fired had enough to turn over but not fire,
Drove it about the unit and the 1mile drive way a bit oh me how i miss driving this,
Praying work calms down a little so i can actually spend some time on it and get it on the road again,
As fun as my 200bhp bmw powered transit is its not my range rover
 
Took her for a little run out.Stopped at the beach to carry dog down to wet sand for some rehab. Left her running as I jumped out. I kept hearing a creaking noise from somewhere near the rear. So had a look. It sounded like the creaking of an old L322 trying to lower herself ..... weird. There also looked to be movement near the rear wheel. I stood, staring, wondering, worrying.......gave the wheel a kick, just because I could. Couldn't work out what was going on. So decided to switch off engine and listen a bit better.
Turned the key. It wouldn't move. Oh hell! Now what?!
Then I realised I'm a plonker. She was in reverse. Damn good handbrake 😁
 
Took her for a little run out.Stopped at the beach to carry dog down to wet sand for some rehab. Left her running as I jumped out. I kept hearing a creaking noise from somewhere near the rear. So had a look. It sounded like the creaking of an old L322 trying to lower herself ..... weird. There also looked to be movement near the rear wheel. I stood, staring, wondering, worrying.......gave the wheel a kick, just because I could. Couldn't work out what was going on. So decided to switch off engine and listen a bit better.
Turned the key. It wouldn't move. Oh hell! Now what?!
Then I realised I'm a plonker. She was in reverse. Damn good handbrake 😁
been there done that several times. Put my excuse to an age thingo_O
 
i was having a bit of a crisis in the night and rechecked my car.
with ignition off, the replacement BCM also stops responding, but i think its normal and its just going to sleep as its supposed to? if i press start, it wakes up again for a while and responds.
the original BCM did the same but stopped responding after literally <5 seconds.. so its still faulty?
 
i was having a bit of a crisis in the night and rechecked my car.
with ignition off, the replacement BCM also stops responding, but i think its normal and its just going to sleep as its supposed to? if i press start, it wakes up again for a while and responds.
the original BCM did the same but stopped responding after literally <5 seconds.. so its still faulty?
or its not accepting the replacement BCM due to a mismatch of serial numbers
 

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