When winding brake piston back with a wind back tool, shoud it be by hand?

Is the piston on thread, and if ceased in can you get seal kits from any where?

I have the drivers side down to the wind back stage and it does not want to wind back without a massive amount of force.:(

yeah the caliper should wind back by hand, sometimes need a bit of brute force! some calipers have a left hand thread so try winding it the other way, if it still doesn't budge then its possiple it could have seized. not to sure about seal kits tho. hope ypu get it sorted:thumbup:

Found seal kits on fleabay, BIGGRED. It has def ceased

Hello mate, are you using the Laser caliper windback tool?

We were trying to do this on a mates vRS last weekend and we found the instructions for the tool are wrong, and it can make it seem like the piston is impossible to push back in.

The kit comes with a metal plate that you're supposed to put on the outside of the caliper and slot the screw part into so you push against the outside of the caliper to get the piston in HOWEVER because the outside of the caliper is angled slightly it means it's pushing the piston back in at an angle so it won't go right in.

The solution is to put just the first 1cm or so of the plate in the other way round, that way the tool is straight and you should be able to wind the piston right in by hand with no effort at all. It took us 2 hours of trying to force it with a james bond spanner and socket on a breaker bar before we realised this :eek:

(Pic attached to explain... the metal plate is in blue)

The wind back tool was actually fine, the damn thing had ceased due to a badly fitted dust cover previously. I have ordered seal kit from skoda as audi and VW could not supply until mid next week (If any one would like the correct part number I will fish it out). None of the internet sites could garantee delivery for tomorrow.

It apparently is a common part between audi,VW,seat and skoda families.

some calipers have a left hand thread so try winding it the other way

You normally only get left hand thread calipers on Peugoets and other French motors, and you need a special left handed tool, you cant just turn it the other way!

seal kit is part number 3A0 698 471 is fitted to the a3, then loads of vw's golf,passat,polo,vento etc this is for the front kit. rear kit is 8d0 698 671

Spot on Chicken !! was having exactly the same problem.  As soon as the tool is pressing on the piston square it moves a lot more easily.  Still took two of us to get them fully wound in. 

Did mine last week and it was as chicken said.

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