10-26-2023, 11:05 AM | #1 |
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Brake pad fittment issues, pins won't fit
I have now tried 2 different brands of brake pads that supposedly should fit my car 23 m340i with m sport 348mm front brakes. Both project mu type ps and hawk HPS 5.0, physically fit the caliper perfectly, but the pins do not line up with the holes in the pads. It seems that BMW has at some point changed which dimple they are drilling in the calipers for the pins to fit into from the 2nd hole to the 3rd hole.
Does anyone know any aftermarket brake pads that will fit these calipers and the ‘new’ pin location? |
10-26-2023, 11:09 AM | #2 |
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And as a side note… I have a set of brand new Project Mu type PS pads for sale that I can’t return that I ordered from Japan if anyone is interested in buying them.
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10-26-2023, 09:09 PM | #3 | |
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See if by any chance any of those pads can be flipped and maybe line on the opposite side of the rotor or maybe in the opposite side of the car, play around there’s a chance maybe 1 specific pad goes on the outside of the rotor or on the inside of the rotor and viseversa. The other thing you can check is if you can line up old and new pads on a table and have the pin holes line up, if they don’t in any way then the pads straight up don’t fit your car.
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Compare in this picture of another m sport caliper from eBay. The drilling for the pin location is different from my caliper. Not by much, but enough to cause the pins to not line up. |
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10-27-2023, 10:27 AM | #6 | |
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I did receive this response from hawk through XPH customer serivce. “We currently do not offer the pad that your customer needs for their application, but we are currently working on it.” Maybe I’m stuck with the dusty OEM pads for a while… |
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