Brake's

[Phoenix21]

hey
ok today i changed my frount disks and pads the back were done about a month ago anyways when im driving now im finding it hard to stop like you have to push the pedal twice a far to stop so any ideas to what chould be causeing that would be great thanks

[h0Ld3n`VN]

when u where putting the brakes back on was someone pushing the brakes? so no air gets in.

[pandaman]

Give em a decent bleed, should help a lot.

[xcop5l]

they arent bed in
take it for a drive down a long quiet street, drive at about 60 then apply the brakes like normal to almost a stop, do this about 5-6 times leaving about a min for the rotors to cool

[h0Ld3n`VN]

yea xcop is right i had this same problem and so did my mumz car, just drive it around eventually it should go back to normal

[AirStrike]

Should bed the brakes in straight away so they dont glaze. Also check that you dont need to bleed the brakes.
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[MyVPIsFasterThanYourVP]

sounds like the brakes need to be bled. I thought bedding the pads took like 300K's, is that only with new rotors?

[AirStrike]

sounds like the brakes need to be bled. I thought bedding the pads took like 300K's, is that only with new rotors?

Thats rotors mate. Pads you normally drive at 50-60km/h and stop with a fair bit of force (dont lock em up) around 6-7 times.
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[xcop5l]

sounds like the brakes need to be bled. I thought bedding the pads took like 300K's, is that only with new rotors?

that also depends on where you drive. city its like 100 and country is like 400

[pandaman]

they arent bed in
take it for a drive down a long quiet street, drive at about 60 then apply the brakes like normal to almost a stop, do this about 5-6 times leaving about a min for the rotors to cool

Whoops! Good point, I'd assumed he'd already done that as the bedding in procedure is usually included in the instructions in the box.

[xcop5l]

instructions?????
hehe done brakes so many times i can do them with my eyes closed whilst im pissed and upside down.

[pandaman]

instructions?????
hehe done brakes so many times i can do them with my eyes closed whilst im pissed and upside down.

One of the benefits of doing it for a living I suppose. I like to read the instructions and the manual before doing anything I'm not real experienced with. Much harder to **** up that way, although last time I left half a coat hanger dangling under the vehicle, I'd been using it as a hook for the caliper and forgot the mongrel. Took me a few minutes to work out what the jingling noise from the back was, damned lucky it didn't get wrapped round something.

[Phoenix21]

im ganna sound like a noob but anyways how do you go about bleeding the brakes

[immortality]

im ganna sound like a noob but anyways how do you go about bleeding the brakes

do a search in the how to section or get a gregories