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Yeah i have been keeping up with your brake woes getting close to jumpng in the Hiluxury and coming up for a look see so what havent you replaced now ????? :woohoo:
Dave cc wrote: Yeah i have been keeping up with your brake woes getting close to jumpng in the Hiluxury and coming up for a look see so what havent you replaced now ????? :woohoo:
Well tried jamming the brake pedal for 24 hours just in case there was still air trapped but the problem is still occuring. Convinced air is not the problem.
On Saturday I will strip the rear brakes and check the rear adjusters in more detail, degrease and refit.
Then I have a set of new rear soleniods, front disks and pads and rear flexi-hose ready to be fitted if that fails....
They restripped and recleaned the offside caliper and checked the pads for uneven wear. Both pads and discs were replaced two years ago and they are still fine. They checked the master and re-bled the entire system.
Wheels back on and onto the rolling road with no difference. The offside front was still well down while the nearside gave good readings.
Thats when I appeared, I made the suggestion of swopping calipers as per advice here. They didnt know that you could swop them as the Suzuki main dealer told them they were 'handed'!So on the forums advice they stripped both calipers off, swapped them over back on the rolling road and presto..level readings , not particulary high, but good enough to issue a MOT on.
Going to keep a close eye on them over the next few weeks, just hope nothing deteriorates. They feel OK, although they are not the trademark 'throw you through the screen' jimny brakes it used to be, but that could be because the pads are now mated to different discs, perhaps they just need to bed in.
So any ideas why or what has been going on here, This could have been really expensive with 5 hours labour charges, but the garage were kind to me and charged me just £140 today although yesterdays bill was £200 for MOT, Oil and filter change plus a few hours labour sodding about with the hoses, calipers and pads.
