Then one day, after a full set of new pads about, that life was gone... to be only dreamed about.
I have tried full fluid flushes and bedding in the pads on a series of interesting B-road blacktop and nearly 10 thousand mileometers of various other driving - but still, there appears to be a sponge at my foot.
The car still stops effectivly, under stomping conditions wheels lock up and ABS kicks in (although I wish sometimes it wouldn't...) but I have no more of that much-spouted phrase "pedal-feel"
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Various wonderings as to causes of the problem have pottered into my rambling mind - and I would love to recieve comment from others...
Somewhere - possibly over the rainbow, but more likely to be in the braking system - there still be air, or tired old brake fluid. Are there areas of Mk IV ABS system reknowned for hording hydraulic juice and if so how can I get it out of a bleed nipple?
DOT5.1 isn't as good as DOT4 in Ovlov 480s. (just like being five and a bit wasn't as quite much fun as being four becuase compulsorary education got in the way of life) <<side note... why 5.1? why not just 5?>> Our braking systems where obviously not designed for 5.1 because it says to only use DOT3 or 4 on the resevoir cap... is that the problem?
Depsite a large hydraulic pump, I notice the pedal-box still has a master cylinder with vacuum-servo assistance. Could this be where the problem be? I noticed last time my girl was serviced that changing the diddy air filter on the servo wasn't part of the servicing routine and I can't find mention of it anywhere... but if its sucking air, there must be one somewhere...
On the same strand, could the vacuum supplying the VCM (aircon switch-button ventilation thingummy) - which is leaking and hissing all over the place (have you noticed the little orange hose which can sometimes snag your foot and eventually rip away?) be robbing me of full servo assistance?
Comments on above rambling, or on any rambles about spongy braking in a car designed and built by our Volvolian friends would be welcomed
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No really, I'm not on drugs. If I were on drugs I'd get very sensible. I'd be like... "Sooo... Fixed-rate mortgages..."
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