Recently changed my own rear brake pads on my early model 2016 Mk4 , didn't do any of this, all I did was chock the front wheels and left the handbrake off without the ignition on, had no issues changing the pads, and managed to push back the piston without much hassle.. no errors either after. I find it resets itself when you reactivate the handbrake. But, good guide regardless.
@@InterTay Don't use the clutch for the first bit.. put car in third gear (1st gear if Automatic), press the foot brake and press the stop start button for 2 seconds so the ignition is on, keeping your foot brake down you can deactivate the handbrake by pressing the handbrake button, this will release your handbrake. Even if ignition switches off, it won't reactivate the handbrake until the next bit. (but it will give an audible warning the handbrake is off.) Chock the car, lift and car jacks to make it safe, replace brake pads/discs depending on what your replacing. To reactivate, start the car normally with door shut, and pull up the handbrake switch, with foot brake pressed deactivate handbrake, and stop engine. the car should activate the handbrake with the new pads/discs on, no ECU reset needed.
@@JustAGameShow thanks for this information. I was wondering if that would work. I have the 2020 facelift, and I've managed to get the handbrake off, but I was not sure if pushing the piston back without resetting the EPB motor would damage it. So when you push the piston back, it automatically pushes the EPB motor back too?
Eyup sandy, once the calipers have been put in maintenance mode, you should just be able to push the pistons back with pump pliers, like a normal caliper. Then obviously reset the maintenance mode to restart the motors etc. As ya know.
