[s-cars] Rear caliper carrier (wanted)

[Dave Ellis]

It sounds like one of your calipers was replaced at some point.  I had 
to order a replacement rear caliper carrier last summer (the original 
one had a seized slide bolt shear off inside it, and was badly 
corroded), and the new carrier was different from the original one. 
Once I got everything together it worked fine and actually made changing 
the pads on that side slightly easier.  I don't recall the part number 
off the top of my head, but the part number had incremented if I recall 
correctly.
-Dave


Rich Assarabowski wrote:
> It is bizarre, I admit, but one side has a distinctly different looking carrier from the other and does not match the appearance of the carrier in ETKA or in Bentley for the S4.   Not sure how it happens that the S4's vented rotors fit this carrier, the tipoff was that the rotor came off the hub without removing the carrier, on the correctly installed side the carrier needed to be removed in order for the rotor to come off the hub.
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>   I already have a new caliper for the side that sticks, I obviously bought it without the carrier thinking mine was good.  Only explanation is the the previous owner put in a rebuilt caliper that came with an incorrect carrier.
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>   Lesson learned:  Never assume what's in a car is what came from the factory if you're not the original owner (duh!)
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>   -- Rich
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