Brake Caliper Press Tool, Car Ratcheting Brake Caliper Piston Spreader Press Tool with 2 pcs Steel Plates, Red

I used this on the brake calipers of my '01 Jeep GC. It was simple to use and worked great. The longer pieces can easily be removed for use in smaller calipers. I noticed some of the reviews state that there has to be resistance applied to the tool to get it to open up wide enough. That is not true. One side has a spacer and the other side does not. You can spin the side that does not, and the width gets wider. You can turn it until it's just wide enough to insert. I think if the instructions were better then most users would see that their making the tool work harder than it has too. Some reviews state that it's too long and it doesn't fit their calipers. They should take a little more time to read the dimensions listed.

Do not buy this product. We have had this product probably a good year maybe year and a half it fell apart in the first month we’ve had it we really haven’t used it since then not very pleased would not purchase from this company. Again thank you, Mr. Pete.

worked as expected

Great invention! Worked great!

This did not work at all it would not spread/open up the ratchet mechanism stop working. I turned it over I even clicked the switch on it and last I threw in the towel. I waited to long to use this because I would have got a replacement or my money back.

Ordered this for 4 piston brembo calipers that are part of the BMW m sport brake package known as M Sport S2NHA.First disappointing part, the "smaller" pad set that is on the tool (without the magnet extensions) was too long to fit between the caliper pad area.I had to dremel off approx. a quarter inch of metal on each side, wasting about 3 dremel metal cutting disks which unfortunately cost about 3 bucks a piece, so...about $10 wasted into correcting the dimensions on this tool.After that, you quickly realize that there's no way to use the tool with the caliper mounted, so you will have to remove it no matter what, not useful at all for just swapping pads out.Additionally, ratcheted open to full capacity, the tool doesnt spread far enough, and one side just falls off, so you have to put one or 2 pads back in, then squeeze the metal pad area on the tool to create enough friction for it to expand again.Basically, this will likely work in a pinch, but it really is poorly designed and cheap and a knockoff of a similar ratcheting design from performance tool for twice the price.The only positive to this is it did work, and on the rear smaller calipers, you can turn the metal pads on the tool sideways to make it fit on the dual piston rear brembro calipers to spread them as well.I dont think this will last long term as the metal pads are already starting to curve just from using them 1 time on a full brake job. I will likely end up returning it and just coughing the money up for the more expensive Lisle quad piston spreader instead.

This is awesome and compresses the caliper without any issues. It works great, though the plates inside have to be held in place until you have pressure on the piston. But this is a great purchase and made compressing my calipers super fast and easy.

If I had this years ago or knew about it. It would of saved me a lot of time and a lot of angry nights

For years o have just used C-Clamps to compress brake cylinder pistons. Truthfully I bought this as an impulse buy. After having used it though it works very well, a handy tool and easy to use. A great addition for the home mechanic. My only negative comment is that they could use a stronger magnet to hold the oversized plates for 2 piston compression, but it works very well regardless.