My brakes stopped working earlier tonight, just rolling through town in light traffic, heard a clunk that sounded like I'd driven over a loose manhole cover. As I rolled into a layby they started to work again. Turned everything off, gave em a pump and checked in the streetlight that nothing had apparently fallen off or come loose under the car or around the wheels.
Drives fine now. Had a corroded line and (bias?) valve replaced last week as part of MOT.
Any thoughts?
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Thread: Momentary Brake Failure
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30-12-2011, 22:43 #1Forum User
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Momentary Brake Failure
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31-12-2011, 00:16 #2Forum User
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Rear pads fallen out?
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31-12-2011, 00:23 #3Forum User
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Can't check til morning, but the grinding noise alludes to it. FFS. :(
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31-12-2011, 11:38 #4Forum User
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Yep. A pad fell out. Marvellous.
Always happens on a bank holiday.
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31-12-2011, 12:22 #5Forum User
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Nice, not happened to me yet but I'm sure when it does I'll bee very confused lol
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31-12-2011, 13:51 #6Founder
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how does a pad literally "fall out" ??????
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31-12-2011, 17:32 #7Forum User
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Rear calipers, there's that annoying slide "pin" the holds the pads in place...cars are old now big bump in road... Bosh out it comes
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31-12-2011, 17:56 #8Forum User
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ai, if the linch pin comes out the pad holder slides out and then the pad follows
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31-12-2011, 18:00 #9Founder
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ah. so they dont attach the same as the fronts then?
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31-12-2011, 19:17 #10Forum User
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nope! totally different! how many years u had a mk1 fella, never investigated???
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