With the right tools you should be able to do it in your own garage, just use quality tools so you won't round off the caliper bolts, and use a C-clamp to squeeze in the pistonsHow hard is it to change the front brakes (pads and rotors) on a E36 BMW?
BMW. I would stay away... Dint get me wrong they are easy to change on Honda, Toyota, etc. but my step father tried it on my moms and we could never get the sensor back to normal.