- Park the MK5 on level ground and put it in park, but do not apply the parking brake. Place a wheel chock behind each front tire. Slide a floor jack under a solid part of the rear frame and slowly pump it up, raising the car just high enough for you to be able to slide a jack stand underneath each side. Push a jack stand under each side of the rear frame, making sure each stand is positioned beneath a solid part of the frame. Slowly ease the pressure on the jack, lowering the car onto the jack stands.
- Use a tire iron to remove all of the lug nuts from each of the rear wheels. Set these aside, then pull both of the tire and wheel assemblies straight off the car. Use a 13mm socket wrench to remove the two bolts on the side of each caliper. This will release the calipers, but be careful to not allow them to dangle from the attached brake lines, as this may damage the brake system. Instead, tie the calipers to exposed parts of the undercarriage using twist ties, nylon ties or some twine. Each of the two caliper mounts, which are still attached to the rotors, will have two brake pads nested inside. Remove the brake pads by hand, then remove both caliper mounts by loosening their retention bolts with a 14mm socket wrench. By now the only thing holding the rotors on is an alan screw in each of the rear hubs. Remove these alan screws with an Allen wrench, then pull both rotors right off the wheel spindles.
- Installing the new rotors is a simple matter of reversing the removal process. Slide the new rotors onto the spindles and lock each one down with the alan screws. Slide the caliper mounts onto the rotors and tighten them both down with their 14mm bolts. Put all four brake pads back into the cavities in the caliper mounts, then cut down each of the dangling calipers and tighten them on top of the mounts using their 13mm bolts. Then replace each wheel and tire assembly and tighten down the lug nuts with a tire iron. Finally, use the jack to raise the car an inch or so off of the jack stands, pull the jack stands out and lower the car slowly to the ground.
