pristic wrote:
Guys, It looks like your talkinig about 2 seperate things (as Doc mentioned)
There are anti-squeel shims (I have some, old, can be used as a template if you want (soon as I find them)
The other part is the Spring that sits across the two pads... retaining spring.
Ive never seen one, dont think they came on 7.5" disks (cooper) and are generally not needed... thats whats causing the tink tink I believe.
Peter.
you surely do need them. A previous car I had had the springs and I also followed the opinion that they were no necessary, that was until the pad material seperated from the backing plate. The cause was the pad rattling around had weakened the back of the friction material.
You really dont want that to happen at speed.
You can get larger ones and then cut them down and then curl the ends so they all fit. Thats what I do to great effect and never had a problem.
What I am saying is I dont think Cooper S ones ever came with them, so out of the factory not needed... and still not on 7.5" disks... the 8.4" or the 7" Cooper ones may have had them.
I agree there would be nothing wrong with putting them in if you can get some though.... but I have never seen them.
Peter.
