zoomee

Check the rotors for cracks and for the thickness to see if they are less than the minimum. If not cracked or below the minimum thickness, and they are not too grooved you can reuse them. It has become sort of standard to replace the rotors with the pads but if they are in good condition you can get two or three sets of pads before you replace the rotors. How many miles on the car?

Some cracking at the cross drilled holes is inevitable if you track your car. This "heat checking" won't harm anything unless the cracks link adjacent holes or grow to the edge of the rotor.

I swap between the Hawk DTC pads (for track events) and the OEM pads all the time. It usually takes about 100 miles of city driving to clear the pads and bed them with the new material. After that no problems.

Hi Loren

After looking at the diagram closely it seems as if the item in question might be #18, rather than #16. What do you think?

See this side-on picture:

Would #17, the bolt, then be the bolt in the background with the cable tie hanging from it? If so, should #18 (A 996 106 226 51 - Socket) be bolted down with the bolt in question?

Why are there 2 #18's? A 996 106 226 51 as well as 996 106 226 52?

Thanks very much

Etienne

I agree. The bolt with the tie wrap around it in your second photo is definitely backed out. It's possible that the tie wrap was used to hold the plastic fitting (#18) to the bolt instead of the fitting being properly secured. This poor repair eventually led to the failure of the fitting. Good Luck!