started out my day with the wife yelling "Both my floor mats are filled with water" after our first big rain storm.

Since it was a balmy +7 Celsius today I decided to tackle the front brakes on the wife's X5.

Step 1 remove driver's side tire - easy
Step 2 remove caliper - easy
Step 3...Took me 1.5 hours to get the front caliper carrier bolts off

The rest of that side went smoothly

Everything was going nice and smooth on the passenger side until it came time to put everything back together and now I'm fighting with the caliper piston that doesn't want to retract far back so I can get things back on with the new pads...

I'm losing daylight (sitting here typing away) and it's getting cold. Looks like this will be another #fail

Goddam salty winter roads...