How do you change the brake pads on a 2003 Suzuki Aerio?

Answer 1

First put your handbrake on to prevent a rollaway. Then loosen your lugnuts but dont take them off. jack up one side of the car and put something under it i.e. a concrete block or a jackstand. back the lugnuts off the rest of the way and remove the wheel. This may take some force they tend to get a little stuck on these cars. The on the backside of the calipers ( the part holding the pads against the rotors) there will be two bolts one high and one low going into studs with rubber boots on them. Remove those two bolts, lift the caliper off. Then take off one of the pads and match it up with the new pads. Shim if needed (if old ones have them put new shims in). then put the new pad back in. Do the same to the other pad. Then you will need a C clamp of some kind to depress the piston in the caliper. After depressed place the caliper back into its original position and replace the bolts, your wheel, snug up the lug nuts, remove your stand, lower the jack, and tighten up the lugnuts the rest of the way, and your finished. Just repeat on opposite side.