Do a write up for replacing the disks too 

I feel confident I could replace the pads quite easily following your guide, my brothers done it before on his old Focus and I helped out with that, so already had a rough idea on how to do this, but a very simple guide indeed, I'd need to get a rewind tool first, as ours has mysteriously vanished over the years

I'm needing to replace my rear disks and pads, fronts have a good bit left in both pads and disks but was considering swapping to the TMC kit thats on par with the esseesse kit, although selling on would mean non esseesse disks which could depreciate value, but I'm sure I'll have my car long enough to go through another set of disks and pads 

theres a little blob of metal on the back of the pad, this has to locate in the cutout of the piston. make sure the piston is turned so that the cutouts are at "quarter to three" the whole lot will then fit together

Also, for people that dont have a brake rewind tool, you can use any kind of clamp thats big enough, I used a silicone tube gun, without the silicone, and it pushed the piston down easy enough 

Failing that you can try and use brute force to push the piston back, this can work but its an absolute ba*tard to do it, normally you need to put something like a bit of wood across and pull it towards you, previous experience can tell you that this involved a lot of swearing and grunting, but can work if you've no other option and got all the way to the reassembly stage without realizing you had no clamp or brake rewind tool.

And also, for people thinking of changing rear disks at the same time, you need to remove the whole hub mount, so probably better having a garage do it because theres a lot more work involved to get the whole caliper removed from the disk, all because the allen key bolt at the top is innaccessible without removing the hub... Which has 4 annoying bolts that arent especially easy to reach, so yeah, rear disks is more likely a garage job unless you're up for the hassle it was for me, took about 3 hours for me to get the disks changed, mainly because of how long it took to figure out how to remove it in the first place. Front disks should be easy enough though

the fronts will just  push in but i've found the rears need to be turned as you push

Just followed guide thank you. Didn't replace with new pads though, just stripped and cleaned everything up for now. Will probably look at new back discs and pads (and maybe front) come end of the month.

Is it

Laser caliper rewind cube 5541 by any chance ? 

Always buy the right tool before you start any job 

No issue where to get the tool just making sure its the same ITEM !!!!

I've ordered it anyhows it looks the same, half by rear pad has just vanished on the drivers side very weird !
Tool £5.95 off eBaY free post bargain (another item for the tool shed)

 

Can get the rewind tool off amazon or ebay
Or any good auto shop 
And must say thank you for taking the time to do the Wright up
With pics I must pull my finger out and take pics next time I do a job on car