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alright so if you're changing the rotors on the 2000s on Altima it's not the car basically all we got to do is take off the tire remove the caliper here and then get rid of the rotor that's inside of this the rotors themselves I just got it at a local parts store o'reilly and they cost like 32 bucks apiece i'm not too big of a deal yeah I'm a mechanic would normally charge about 160 to 180 bucks to do this so you're saving you know about a hundred bucks do it yourself all right so the lug nuts on these things are a 21 millimeter ya 21 okay so now you have the tire off the next thing you got to do is take off these two bolts right here on this right there the other one is down there with my wrenches both of them were 19 millimeter and pretty stuck on there so one easy thing I did to get it off is if you have your wrench right here usually just around the other way if you have your wrench like that then you take another wrench and you put it inside the little slot like that then you have an extra long wrench and you get more leverage on the whole thing so as I push down on that one it's connected to the first one and that gives you like an extra foot of leverage anyway so that helps you I don't have power tools or something okay so to remove the caliper once you got there those two bolts out you get to the actual caliper off of the car make sure you support it on something and I have an extra jack stand because you don't want to put any weight on that cable right there you change the brake pads all you got to do is take out these pads right here these are the brake pads these ones look like they have a lot of life left it I'm still on both sides you can see so I'm going to go ahead and leave these in there so if you do decide if you are going to take off the brake pads all you got to do is kind of wiggle and loose out of these brackets right there and that comes out of on both sides the pads will come out when the pads are worn down though what happens is this big piston right here sticks out farther that's when you put the new pads on there's going to be less space in between the two so they won't fit over the rotor over the edges of the rotor so we have to do is you have to compress this piston back down inside of itself before you put the pads on so you can put it over the rotor usually people use like a big C clamp like this I'll just put one side on the piston right here and then the other side on the edge of this and just kind of keep on twisting it down until the piston compresses itself enough they should be able to do it we'll probably have to do a little bit of that today because this rotor might be slightly thicker than this one just because of the time that this one has been wearing down shouldn't be too big of a deal though anyway as far as getting the rotor off this rotor has two holes in it right here and so you have to go by some bolts these ones were you see it there the EM tins by 1.25 doesn't really matter the length of them as long as they fit inside that hole you just keep on tightening them until they until you hear the thing pop off sometimes if the rotor is not super tight on there you can just grab a rubber mallet and just kind of hit it a few times and pop it out that way but in this case it's kind of rusted so I had to use these two bolts just keep on tighten them down equally until the whole rotor just pops off all right just getting a shot of what it looks like beforehand and I got to do is just line up the big holes with the holes on the bolts and you're good in this case I did have to do a little trick with the c-clamp that guy to compress it just enough to get the caliper over the rotor try not to touch that part of the rotor right there just because the oil from your fingers will mess with the brake pads and trying to touch the brake pads either themselves like the airflow pad part anyway so I got the caliper lined up with the two bolts in the back just tightening those down again this the rotor itself will have a little bit of play in it just because you haven't tightened down the tire yet the tires with a whole set all in place all right that's it got the new rotors installed there and it's the same on both sides both the parts and the process was the exact same anyway if you did have to compress your caliper with the brake pads on it make sure when before you take off you before you start driving you pump the brake pedal a few times to get those back pressed up against the rotor so it stopped so you'll be ready when you actually start moving anyway I do put up videos you know every week so if you like what you see if you want to see more make sure you like if this helped you and subscribe there right thanks