... or an Escort either by that reasoning onb... or a Skoda or a Peugeot 405... tsk!
:o}
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And why does being a patriot make you skint?
Edited by Altea Ego on 28/01/2010 at 15:49
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Marching in step dear boy, marching in step... putting on the poor mouth is de rigeur just at the moment...
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"Skoda or a Peugeot 405... tsk! "
I've done my patriotic duty for this country for the time being!
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Ah I see Lud, your is old (lack of) money.
I am one of the Nouveau riche, so very uncouth with splashing it about.
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'Old' be damned, lack of is just about the size of it. Money isn't everything they say, but it does come in useful quite often.
Naturally AE I am pleased and reassured to learn that you are keeping your head above water.
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Lud - perhaps the cat might help...:-)
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We are all lying in the gutter......but some of us are looking at the stars. Eh, Lud ?
Ted
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Just shows - you can't skimp on maintenance. If the car had had a brake fluid change at the correct time (which one assumes is part of the maintenance schedule at mileage/age) it probably wouldn't have needed the new parts.
Not saying it's directly the OP's fault, but even older cars need schedules adhered to and/or checked for completion. But I suppose it's a bit of a Faustian pact anyway with older vehicles of (in the maintenance/servicing sense) uncertain provenance.
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My Father ran a Polo C for the best part of 17yrs without a brake fluid change - no problems with calipers.
Next doors old Golf had done over 12yrs too.
No one bothers with brake fluid - only `enthusiasts` ;-)
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My Father ran a Polo C for the best part of 17yrs without a brake fluid change - no problems with calipers. Next doors old Golf had done over 12yrs too. No one bothers with brake fluid - only `enthusiasts` ;-)
Fine when you're pottering around, but the one time on the motorway when you need to stand on your brakes at 80mph to save your life, the accumulated water will boil merrily as your foot hits the floor - "No one bothers with brake fluid" an amusing epitaph.
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I too have to disagree with oily.
I found I had boiling brake fluid due to a partially sticking caliper piston as I reached a roundabout on a dual carriageway section of the A2.
Not funny.
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The car has been serviced annually I think at the Sheffield main dealer it came from in the first place. It's eight or nine years old and still below 60,000 miles.
I don't know how conscientious the Sheffield place was. The book is stamped but not all the bills are still available. I don't know for example if it's had the cambelt change it should have had on age (not mileage). Its previous owner was my niece-in-law, a very busy, highly paid young woman. I know she got an exhaust at an aftermarket chain place, noisier I am sure than the proper part. She may have had the brakes done by chain places too.
Getting the brake fluid changed, preferably not by pumping it through with the pedal, is now going to prey on my mind. Don't want the ABS to start acting up. My man didn't do it because he hasn't got the machine.
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Oilrag: speaking as one who over many years had much do do with horrible old black brake fluid with bits of perished rubber and nuts and bolts in it, I really can't agree!
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Good point the main reason for (mechanical) ABS failure is corrosion due to missed fluid changes.
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PPS, I use Castrol Response Super DOT 4 (5.1 synthetic) brake fluid, cheaper from Sainsburys Homebase than in Halfords. this stuff does not damage paintwork and can be freely mixed with DOT 3 and 4. The heat fade resistance is astonishing compared to standard fluids. One of my bikes was almost unusable on the track due to brake fade after 2 laps (on fresh new fluid) Castrol Super DOT 4.1 cured the problem.
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One of my bikes was almost unusable on the track due to brake fade after 2 laps (on fresh new fluid) Castrol Super DOT 4.1 cured the problem.
Not doubting your account, but how would a different fluid cure brake fade?
I can understand if it prevented boiling, but that's scarcely fade - when my brother boiled his brake fluid (which must have been 10 years old, in the days when nobody thought of changing it) the pedal went straight to the floor.
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"Fine when you're pottering around, but the one time on the motorway when you need to stand on your brakes at 80mph to save your life, the accumulated water will boil merrily as your foot hits the floor - "No one bothers with brake fluid" an amusing epitaph."
Firstly, insufficent water will accumulate in the brkje fluid to boil
Secondly, One panic stop from 80mph will not generate enough heat in modern braking systems to boil anything.
No-one does bother changing brake fluid any more. Take any 6 year old car and I doubt that 30% have had a change of brake fluid. The roads are not littered with burning hulks from car crashed due to brake failure.
Failure of ABS systems due to not changing brake fluid? thats a symptom of crap design, aka VW.
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Like others here, despite experience of what neglected brake systems can become, I have never that I can remember changed the brake fluid in a car. As long as the brakes worked I didn't mess with them.
Now I suddenly want to change the fluid. I wonder why?
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Lud the car was very cheap in the first place when you buy obscure cars like that the high cost of parts will be the problem :(. You just have to hope it dosn't need many high priced parts.
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very cheap in the first place
None cheaper Rattolo, I agree.
obscure cars like that
Not that obscure though. There are a lot about here although perhaps they haven't quite reached the more remote northern fastnesses (or 'mimserdoms' as they might more accurately be called).
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I change my brake fluid (cars) every two years, (bikes) every 6 months.
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If you really want to do that, the Gunson's easibleed thing is quite good.
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I use the little Mityvac hand held vac pump.
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