Toolwiz Snap Ring Pliers Heavy Duty, Internal C-Clip Circlip Pliers – 90 Degree Long Nose Bent for Trucks Motorcycles Cars, Red

Having fished around inside the calliper barrel with a pair of long nosed pliers for long enough I realised that I would need these. The following day, only five minutes after they were delivered, I was able to easily remove the circlip and finish the disassembly of a Mazda mx5 mk1 rear calliper.It’s not the most robust tool I’ve bought, but it’s been 26 years since the calliper was assembled in Japan and probably another 20 odd years until I’ll need the tool again. With garage labour rates at upwards of £75 an hour the cost of the tool represents about 10 minutes of labour at the garage. Good piece of kit if used sparingly.

Perfectly good circlip pliers for circlips deep in master cylinders, brake calipers etc. They are thin and precise with a fine tip and feel good to use.Just a note for anyone else trying to get the clips out of a 34mm Lucas caliper off a Ford Focus (and similar) - they don't fit. They are not thin enough to reach down. However, I have 2 of these pliers and filed the arms on one to make them thinner. Then it worked a treat :-).

Not a bad tool done the job intended to do . Removal of c- clips from a bottom bracket shell on my bike

Made a very difficult job extracting a circlip on a bontrager freehub body very easy. No need to make any changes to the pins. The pliers seemed really solid to me.

Very pleased with the product

I bought these to take apart the brake cylinders of my SRAM Guide R brakes after the plastic pistons had swollen. There's a small circlip that would be practically impossible to remove without this sort of tool. Normally I'd have a go with screwdrivers and bits of wire, but that was never going to work this time. The pliers were much larger than I expected, about 180mm long, but they're perfect for the job. As others have said, I also needed to slightly file down the pins to remove the paint and a little metal so they would fit. That took a bit of trial and error and the pins look very thin, but they gripped OK and got the clip in and out with relative ease. Apparently they're also useful if you ever need to strip the rear brake calipers of an MX5 too!

Good quality product

The staples on the pack were pulled out on arrival so I guess it had been returned by another customer. I went ahead and tried to remove the circlip inside a Tektro Auriga Comp brake lever but despite squeezing the handles together as far as possible the ends of the pliers did not budge the circlip.