We have a low mileage Grand Vitara 1600 (55k) which passed mot the other week with only 1 minor advisory.
But I had had the front wheels off to clean up the pad carriers etc and noted that all the components were very corroded,one of the problems with low mileage cars is that components/bolts/nuts etc get very corroded and can end up with 'smaller' heads (across the flats) - with this car it looked like everything was still original but approaching 20 years old
Never throw anything away LOL - trying to remove the caliper mounting bracket/pad carrier - crumbly heads which were no longer 17mm - luckily I had a 21/32'' AF socket which is approx 16.6 mm across the flats and fitted on with a gentle tap - well corroded in as can be seen using the wooden batten undoing technique
,the other bolt I also used the 21/32'' socket but had to use the hammer on the T Bar technique (no room for batten)
Me using my half starved 90kg body on wooden batten
The Brake Disc I was expecting trouble with (heavily corroded on) but it popped straight off using the 2 x 13mm head bolts as extractors
The Banjo Bolt on the lower end of the flexy pipe was super crumbly and no longer 14mm across the flats,luckily I had a 1/4'' x 5/16'' Whitworth Ring Spanner (1/4'' Whit = 13.35 mm) left over from an earlier life working on Canberras and Hawker Hunters
,this spanner tapped onto the banjo bolt and hey presto it cracked off ok.
