How to Remove a Volkswagen Brake Rotor Retaining Screw
- 1). Apply the emergency brake on your Volkswagen. Loosen the lug nuts on the front driver's side tire with a lug wrench no more than a 1/4-turn counterclockwise.
- 2). Raise the car with a hydraulic jack and place a jack stand under the frame rail to support the car during the repair. Loosen and remove all of the lug nuts but one. Hold the tire in position against the rotor to prevent it from falling onto the threads of the wheel studs. Remove the final lug nut and slide the tire off the wheel studs without letting it drag across their threads.
- 3). Remove the inner upper and lower caliper mounting bracket bolts with a socket wrench. Do not remove the two bolts from the brake caliper. The caliper mounts over both brake pads, and the pads themselves mount within the metal bracket surrounding the brake caliper.
- 4). Place an empty five-gallon bucket inside the Volkswagen's wheel well on the same side as the brake caliper. Grasp the brake caliper and mounting bracket simultaneously. Lift both components, as an assembly, off the brake rotor and set them down on top of the bucket. Untwist the rubber brake line attached to the brake caliper if you unintentionally twisted it. If the brake line appears taut or has limited slack, move the bucket closer to the hub.
- 5). Attach a T-30 Torx bit socket to your ratchet. Remove the single Torx screw from the face of the Volkswagen's brake rotor. The screw mounts between the wheel studs. Remove the rotor by carefully pulling it towards you off the wheel studs.