Ford B-Max Changing front brake pads- Ford B Max 2016
This job is fairly straight forward- the main tricky bits being raising the car and retracting the brake caliper pistons. In my case it was further complicated as I'd had a tyre changed recently and the garage had totally mullered one of the hub nuts- which caused a great deal of swearing! Loosen the hub nuts before raising the car. Raising the car Ford thoughtfully provide jacking points in the sill seams just to the rear of the front wheels. These are great if you want to change a wheel, but for anything else you're going to want decent support on axle stands. So first problem: if I jack at the jacking points, where do I put the axle stands? The jack will already be occupying that position- and if I jack elsewhere- where? My solution is to jack the front up with a trolley jack under the front subframe and then use axle stands at the jacking points. Trouble is the car is far too low to slip even a low profile trolley jack under the front spoiler, so the first thing is...