Brake Calipers
 

I'm dumb because I should know this :rolleyes:

What's the difference in effect between fixed calipers and floating calipers?
I'm preparing to do a brake job in the front soon, and was reviewing the FSM and noticed that there are fixed calipers in front and floating in rear..

you have floating calipers
 

the piston pulls the outside pad in via a claw....and throws the load off accordingly....typically the inside pad will wear much quicker than the outside pad.....advantage to floating caliper..cheaper to manufacture, only 1 piston to machine and size, most front wheel drive cars use floating calipers due less wheel offset requirements. Most others do as well due to cost...Mercedes, BMW, Audi/VW, SAAB all use floating calipers as far I have seen.... Porsche uses fixed caliper

advantange
 

fixed caliper....much more direct application yet much more expensive...It's all about cake and for most consumer applications floating caliper is just fine......

if you have a fixed caliper
 

that would be interesting.....cause my 124 has floating....just did them on the front....no question...floating caliper...my caliper was Teves....Teves is good...the piston retracted nicely...wasn't stuck or anything...retracted nicely....