Rewinding rear caliper piston....

[Bellend]

May well be the photo but that thread looks a little on the wonk....

[dom]

May well be the photo but that thread looks a little on the wonk....

Yeah, does look a little cross threaded

[hardmonkeys]

Yeh, it's just the photo angle, I did make sure it wasn't crossed threaded...haha..can't believe all this started with replacing rear discs and pads...ridiculous lol

[Bellend]

If it's definitely not cross threaded, are the ends the same type? Should be if it was specific for the car. Pagid are a very good brand. Iit might need a bit more tightening. Check threads are totally clean and straight as a first step though.

[hardmonkeys]

It won't go any tighter, when I realised this I put the old union next to the new one..and like I said, there are 3-4 more threads, VW want £18 odd for one, so gonna give that ago.

I know it's not cross threaded as I checked, i put the old pipe back on, and it tightened up perfect.

Wish I'd never started this now lol

[Bellend]

It won't go any tighter, when I realised this I put the old union next to the new one..and like I said, there are 3-4 more threads, VW want £18 odd for one, so gonna give that ago.

I know it's not cross threaded as I checked, i put the old pipe back on, and it tightened up perfect.

Wish I'd never started this now lol

I'm just struggling to see that Pagid who make the vast quantity of braking parts for VW would cock that up. Also number of threads shouldn't make a difference as it will just have threads sticking out, won't stop the ends from going in. If anything less threads would make it leak, not more.

It may have more threads but that can't be the actual issue, must be the wrong shape end or something like that.