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So the soft/spongy pedal was actually the caliper flexing as the inside pad was not moving..? 🤯the inner pads (on both sides) had seized into the sliders: they were not moving at all. It eventually took a hammer and punch to get them out. It looks like the backing plates are just too long, and the inner pads cannot move in the caliper at all. Only the outer pads were doing any braking. There was a fair bit of brake dust and what seems like sludge or some other contaminants, and I can see that the sliders are badly gouged.
Sorry only just seen this, I cleaned them up but decided they were too heavy and costly to replace the rotors as I intend to sprint and hillclimb mine and just fitted R56 calipers and discs.Astroboy and Shiftspark: did you replace the steel sliders on the calipers at the top and bottom of the pads?
Hmm, well I thought of reverting to R56 brakes, but since I already had a new set of Carbotech XP8 pads I decided to plough on.Sorry only just seen this, I cleaned them up but decided they were too heavy and costly to replace the rotors as I intend to sprint and hillclimb mine and just fitted R56 calipers and discs.