Changing Discs/Pads on a Renault scenic mk3 with Electronic Parking Brake without a EPB scanner tool 

glad you found it useful. We have to all help each other in the DIY car community :-)

Glad it worked for you :-)

Thanks for the feedback, hearing people found the video useful makes it worth pointing the camera at things when fixing them! Enjoy your Scenic :-)

Glad you found it useful. I just did another scenic today funnily enough..for my brother. Sadly this time we spotted the coil spring is snapped so I will be back under it again next week!

Good tips yes! Glad the video was useful. I have a draper mains powered storm force impact wrench which makes light work of the hub nut. Needs a long bar and a digital torque wrench to get the 280nm tightening it up!

Glad it was useful to you. Us DIYers need to stick together, we are a withering community!

Really pleased it helped you out, we have to help each other with these videos as the technology becomes ever more complex!

Glad you liked it, good luck with your work James

Hi, I didn't have to put the card in at all, because my model has the keyless start. However as the key was in my pocket when I performed the brake-off task this is likely the same as having put the card in (you'd have not achieved ignition-without-start state otherwise). When I went to the bonnet to disconnect the battery the keycard came with me. Providing your removing the keycard doesn't reapply the brakes I would suggest taking it out at that point. Then when you reconnect the battery it will probably let you reapply the brakes regardless of the keycard in/out. I think the brakes can always be applied, it is taking them off that requires the keycard to be in the slot (or present in the case of keyless entry).

You can't push the piston back in before first backing off the screw threaded hand brake mechanism from the rear. This is done either as I show with a battery.. or via the special computer tool.. or by removing the motor from the rear and manually turning the screw behind it. If you try and push the piston back in without doing this then it will not go in and will cause serious damage.

I've just done it with a pair of pliers. Wound the piston in, just like a screw. Had to apply a little force on it, like pushing it in, but all went well... Just leave the car in gear, no handbrake, shut of engine. Lift up back end (or whole car if you're on a lift) and do it "the old school way" Never had any problems that way. Or though I will admit, it looks a whole lot easier, winding it back with power...👍

@@kristianskov4841 on a scenic? Surprised that worked without damaging the motor gearing. Also when I took one to bits it had a carriage that moved up and down a thread, I don't think the piston actually turned in normal use.

Hi The reason I left them off, is that when experimenting with the wires at the start of the job it allows movement each way without going straight into short circuit. If they are already on, connecting them one way round will perform no movement, but might short out the motor, as you try to force them on tighter.

As I recall from taking one apart, the motor driven screw isn't actually attached to thr caliper.. so once fully found back the 12v you can then apply physical pressure to push the piston back. Fit it back in with the old pads and then slip a combination spanner in to lever it

? You clearly disconnected the battery at the beginning of the video. My question was after you disengaged the electric parking brake did you turn the car completely off with the parking brake still off and then disconnect the battery or did you disconnect the battery while the car was still on.

Okay I've got my answer. You can't turn the car off with the parking brake disengaged because it automatically re-engage itself. So you leave the car computer (the instrument panel) on and disconnect the battery.

I was worried that if you left the car computer on that it could get messed up when disconnecting the battery. One last tip for the other people always disconnect the batteries negative side first and then positive. Do the opposite to reconnect.

@@jmantwild9373 apologies for the confusion regarding disconnecting the battery, it was a good while ago and the video remembers it much better than I do ;-)

@@jmantwild9373 you do in fact only need to disconnect the negative.. disconnecting both sides makes no real difference.

That's odd, and presumably related to disconnecting the battery and upsetting it's sensitive nature. You say when you go to set the time it shoes the right time. Where do you see the wrong time.. what shows when the radio is turned off on the sat nav screen? By the way a few weeks back we put a new battery in the scenic and it showed dashes after.. but then after listening to the radio for a bit it corrected it self. We assumed it got the time from the radio.

Well the dashes --:-- show on the Sat nav while off or on. But when I go in to manually change the time it's keeping the correct time that I set. I find it very strange. I've changed out the battery once before but I didn't have this problem. I will let you know if the clock fixes itself while driving like you said. Also thank you for the timely response that's awesome. 😎

@@jmantwild9373 No worries - do let me know if it does. I reckon there is a good chance it will - as I say ours did. It is always nice when things 'self heal' ;-)

Well it worked but only after I turned the radio on for a while. I thought it would get its signal from the Sat nav not the radio but I guess they both use radio waves. 😅

You know what really has me confused is if it uses radio waves for the time then why do I need to set it, also why doesn't it automatically adjust for daylight savings time. I guess some things are meant to be a mystery.😂