My front right caliper is sticking in a bad way, is it better to refurb it or replace?

Don't have much experience with messing around with the braking system so a replacement would seem like a more straight forward option, also looking at the service history it looks like they were refurbished a couple of years back so it seems like the caliper itself is a bit dodgy!

Pretty normal on these cars, well just sliding caliper brakes in general. I refurbed mine, and first time round I nipped the dust seal, so after a couple of years it stuck again. Next time round, they're still working.

Refurb ain't much more difficult than swapping, there's a guide on here somewhere. I would almost advise a refurb yourself and taking your time to make sure it's done right.

This and rust are about the only real bad points on these cars...

Cheers.

Refurb kits on ebay are around a tenner so I figure its probably worth a try. I'll have a look for the guide.

Here's the guide: viewtopic.php?f=35&t=37797

Couple of things I'll add now having had a bit of experience with it all.

-Check your sliders are working nicely. New fitting kit on the brake pads will help a lot (well so will new discs and pads, and flexi lines etc, but stuff being clean to work helps the most).

-If you have access to an air compressor, that's an easier and less potentially damaging way of getting the piston out.

-I found seating the dust seal inside the caliper first, then putting the piston into the dust seal and then pushing the piston into the caliper a better way round of installing the seal than the way suggested in the guide - you can be a bit more sure that everything is sitting where it should be.

- Push the piston in completely square - obvs...but easy to start going on the wonk and that's bad.

Good luck