With the piston fully pushed in and all shims in place I could not get the caliper over the new pads even with brute force. The old pads removed were mintex brand and also had a sticker on the back of them that is supposed to be an antisqueal thing.

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2012 BMW X5 (Beef + Granite suspension model)

1995 E300D - The original humming machine (consumed by Flood 2017)
2000 E320 - The evolution (consumed by flood 2017)