Citroen Xantia Brake Pads

[Xaccers]

I think the locating pin you are referring to is the one which slides in horizontally to secure the caliper, and is held there with a small R-shaped pin. Fortunately I have never had any trouble with these, though I would advise anyone fitting these to use brake grease as lubricant, not LM grease as I did, since this just burns down to a dry carbon residue.

Just so; but the pin should also go through a hole in the central lug of each pad backing plate - above the white-painted 'pip' in the photos, but absent. The pin also holds the anti-rattle (anti-squeal) shim in place so that it (the shim) applies pressure to the edges of the pads.

I speak from experience only of the 283 x 22 front disc set-up. I don't know if the callipers for the larger 288 x 28 (S1 - only V6. S2 - all HDi 110 & V6, plus 2.0 CT & 2.1 TD after RP 8001) are of a different design - it sounds as though they're the same. So it looks as though those are the wrong pads (no hole).

Interesting oldguy, on all my Xantias the pads are like the photos, and the caliper has no space for the lugs to take a pin. Instead there is a flat spring like item which is difficult to describe.
The caliper pin goes nowhere near the brake pads.
Only the rear pads have a lug hole to take a threaded retaining bolt that the shims also have holes for.

[citronut]

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