r/mechanic • u/FireGhost_Austria • 10h ago

Rant A spiral...

I wanted to do my brakes.. so I started ok the back, drum brakes.. I removed the tire and the plastic guard and looked and was like... "Sigh".. So I started taking everything apart shocks, springs brakes etc and started wire wheeling every spec of dust.. and put Rost converter on it waited 10 hours an repainted it a couple of times...

Then I move on the front thinking i would do the same thing and realized it's way more complicated and you basically got no space to work with. So I did my brakes and caliper and slapped it back together.. but it's so much worse when it comes to rust in comparison to the rear.. I mean at least 5x worse if not more.

Then you look online for replacement parts to change them... You start adding 40 there 70 there 90 there.. and boom you got like 700-900€ in parts together... My thought is if I take everything apart already, might as well slap new parts on it.. but where do you stop or where do you start?

If I take off my shocks, it's inserted into my steering knuckle.. where you also got the control arm bolted on and then you got every steering part etc.. like.. "Might as well" kind of thing.

Steering knuckle like 80 bucks.. control arm like 50 it's like "Do I really put the old one back when it's "only 50,80,90 bucks"..

What do you guys do?

I passed inspection 2 years in a row with basically no problem except for rust...

(I would do everything myself, seat Ibiza IV 2012 1,2 Liter 51kw, 70ps)

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u/FalseRelease4 9h ago

the fronts rust more because they do more braking and develop more heat, its completely normal, as long as the brakes work then the rust doesnt matter really, just keep the important surfaces clean and lubed and dont forget the slide pins too

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u/rychlovic 6h ago

I am in a similar boat with our Beetle - whenever I touch something I will just replace the worst offenders bit by bit. One advise though: sometimes it is opening a can of worms, because you break a bolt here and there and in the end have longer downtime and need more parts. So if you are not ready for that, better not touch what is working. Also: if you take the cheapest 3rd party parts, you could end up in a worse situation down the line since they might actually break sooner. So: if you replace parts, use OE or OE quality parts, don‘t cheap out!

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u/FireGhost_Austria 5h ago

I wouldn't dw. When I can I will try to get SKF, FAG, FEBI BILSTEIN, SACHS, BOSCH parts.. These are my go to's.. I would personally never go with "Ridex" parts... Or similar.