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• Volvo S80 Front Brakes 11 Sep 2006 (Forum)
  i had my front brake pads changed recently. soon after that, one day i was driving on the North circular when a driver in the next lane gestured to me that something was wrong with my bront wheel drivers side. i stopped at a stopped immediately to find that there was some smoke coming up from
• A Braking Prayer 26 Mar 2003 (Forum)
  Hi there guys, I realise this post may be a bit of a long shot but maybe someone will be able to help! I have owned a citroen zx1.9td aura k reg for 3 months now and i've been having terrible trouble with the brakes-I'm getting very bad pulsing through the brake pedal and a very funny sounding
• Nissan Micra 1998 1.0L - Brake Pipes 3 Mar 2018 (Forum)
  Hi, Be grateful of some advice....Car just failed MOT due to rusty brake pipe on nearside rear. Use to be part of car clubs where we would do work on cars but it being a while now since I did anything and would like to give replacing brake pipe myself ( get my hands dirty
• Any - Motorcycle LED Brake/Tail/number plate light 13 Aug 2011 (Forum)
  got a strange problem here. Tried to fit an additional LED light for tail , number plate & brake. New unit comes with 3 wires. Blue- Brake light. Yellow Tail & number plate. Green- earth. Strange when additional brake light is fitted then tail light extinishes but number
• ford c-max 2007 - sinking brake pedal 30 Jan 2011 (Forum)
  I recently had complete brake failure while driving in slow moving stop start  traffic. The pedal went right down to the limit & no braking. I ran into the back of another vehicle. The brakes have worked perfectly before & after this event. I had them checked
• Ford Fiesta - Spongy brake pedal 23 Mar 2010 (Forum)
  a friend of mine has a Ford Fiesta. he recently had the discs exchanged as his car was juddering when coming to a halt. Despite this, the car still judders when braking. what might be causing this? also, he feels the brake pedal is spongy. what might be causing this: i suggested
• Subaru Forester (1997 - 2002) - 02 2.0T Fr n/s and rear o/s brakes locking on 21 Nov 2009 (Forum)
  Help! Forester 2.0 Turbo 52 plate. Fr n/s and rear o/s brakes locking on. Replaced ABS unit, replaced master cylinder bypassed valve between master cylinder and ABS unit and still brakes lock on. No pressure at master cylinder when we loosen brake fluid pipe. Is there a valve somewhere
• Nissan Primera II (1996 - 1999) - 1998 2.0 l rear brakes 21 Jun 2008 (Forum)
  I have SE estate that has lately had rear brakes seizing on. My garage ( who are usually good) have replaced both rear brake hoses and the caliper on off side. Prior to this one side then another would stick on and overheat. The front brakes do not stick on or overheat. The ABS seems OK
• long brake pedal - 2002 honda civic 15 May 2007 (Forum)
  hi all, a friend of mine has just had his car mot'd. the garage is quite good but he failed it for brakes and a wiper. no worries. so they gave the brakes a tidy then retested it. it has now passed the brake test and therefore the mot but they are saying the pedal is still quite long. the car
• Fiat Cinquiento offside rear brake plate 31 Jan 2007 (Forum)
  Hi fellow car fanatics... A friend has offered to fix my girlfriends fiat cinciquento and says she needs a rear offside brake plate? I believe it is the bit that the back brake fastens on to... is this right? If I go into a fiat parts dealer, will they know what a rear offside brake plate
• citroen saxo brakes 11 Feb 2006 (Forum)
  right i have got a citroen saxo 1.1 p reg and the problem is the brake pedal travel is too excessive i have replaced the master cylinder and bled the brakes until no more air comes out from any of the system i did this by starting at the furthest point away from the master cylinder but still excess
• Brake Fade. 3 Jan 2006 (Forum)
  Reading a nine year old copy of Autocar earlier this evening (in the bath!) and was intrigued by a comparison test between a standard Jaguar XK8 and a XKR SVO. The road-tester kept mentioning how the standard car suffererd terribly from brake fade whereas the XKR with it's larger Brembo brakes did
• Scenic II brakes 28 Oct 2005 (Forum)
  Apologies for all the queries on my car but going in for service on friday and want to get anything done that I should. I don't drive the car often, usually SWMBO drives it. However I have been driving it this week purely to check if there is any issues. I have noticed that the brakes are very
• Peugeot 306 brakes 20 Jan 2005 (Forum)
  I have put a full gti6 brake setup on my 306td. It has new flexi's, new master cylinder etc. Anyway when the engine is off the brakes are pretty much solid as you ould expect but as soon as the engine is running the brake pedal travels almost to the floor. I have bled it several times using
• Nissan Almera Judder on hard braking 21 Nov 2004 (Forum)
  Having now got the Almera back, I noticed that the brakes judder when fairly hard braking is applied. I'm not talking emergency stop here but simple harsher than normal braking can cause this. Wifey noticed this in the car before she picked an arguement with a wall in it. The car has been services
• 406 Coupe V6 brake squeal 2 Aug 2004 (Forum)
  The brakes on my 406 Coupe V6 squeal like a piggie. I have used the spray which works for a short while byt then it comes back. The brakes in question are Brembo (though I?m not sure this makes a difference). Anyway, I?m going to have to change them soon anyway so my questions are: Is it worth
• Astra Belmont f reg brake light problem 18 Jul 2004 (Forum)
  sorry for asking for help on my first post , but i really need the help. i've got an F reg Astra Belmont 1.8 GLSi. both of my brake lights do not come on at all when i press the brake pedal. i've changed the bulbs , checked the fuses and replaced the brake pedal switch. the 2 cables that come
• cavalier brakes 19 Aug 2003 (Forum)
  I recently had a rear brake cylinder seal go & so i replaced both rear cylinders & shoes. About a week later the ABS warning light came on so i thought i would replace the front disks too. This hasnt cured the problem, & now ive discovered i have no rear brake lights at all! Ive checked the fuses
• Mazda 2 Automatic - Front brakes pads 18 May 2020 (Forum)
  The front brake pads have been changed twice since new (Sept 2016). First time Oct 2018 (12,200 miles).Second time in Nov 2019 (19000). So 2 sets of front brake pads gone on a car with only 19000 miles on clock!. Any ideas of what is causing the problem ?
• Nissan Note 2011 - High Level Brake Light Failure 7 Jun 2014 (Forum)
   My high level Brake light has failed. Manual says can only be dealt with by Nissan dealer, presumably at high cost. Is the bulb accessible for a D-I-Y fix please? Also not sure if this is an MOT failure but other two brake lights working fine. Thanks.