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A Weird One


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Well what a weird weekend i've had

 

 

I took my mk6 for mot on friday and it failed on a coil spring and the brakes.

 

Now the car has been in a garage for two years and the brakes were seized solid when we pulled it out but i thought i'd free'd them up but i know something wasn't quite right when i drove it to mot station.

 

The brake test showed that the front brakes were grabing sharply so that was were the problem was.

 

Great i thought i took it home and striped the front calipers and found them not seized i put them back on and tried to bleed them and for some reason they wouldn't bleed properly.

 

So I thought it must be master cylinder so i striped that down.

 

Everything looked ok and was working so i re-assembled everything, fitted it all back together and bleed it ???

still no good so i thought the master cylinder must be kaput.

 

....and off to scrapie I went £15 later I was on way home with working master cylinder, fitted it went to bleed everything but still not right.

 

Now I was confused so i started opening conections to try and find the solution and after a little detective work i found the fault was both front flexible hoses, i'm not sure what had happened to them and i had never seen anything like it before both hoses had closed up, there was no sign of swelling they looked perfect but £50 later and 2 new pipes all is working.

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