Nope, my 280 brakes are absolutley spot on, very very responsive, pedal doesnt move very far down at all. Hae you tried adjusting the rod between the pedal and the servo? maybe that needs adjusting for the 280s you have fitted. I dont have a rear pressure rego on my car so i dont have all this hassle with bleeding them.
Nope, no rear drums on my car! Got a set of rear discs fitted Cant really say if they are better or worse than the drums in all honesty. (Anticipating the question / flaming) Yes i know i should probably have a rear pressure regulator fitted if i have rear discs, but with the 280's and the wheels / tyres fitted, the car doesn not lock the rear wheels first. Well it does it in wet conditions, but having a pressure reg would only reducde the overall braking effect in the dry if i were to fit it - and i know how the car handles and stops with this setup, so i feel that it is perfectly ok.
Too true, but i suspect my views on a pressure reg may change once the front is poly bushed and the eibach arb's are fitted, gonna change the handling, and hopefully i'll be able to run the front suspension a tad softer, so that'll increase weight transfer from the rears and possibly make em lock. We shall wait and see....... Anyway, back to the question, jus had a quick check on seat ETKA, the calipers appear to be the same as the golf ones, so i dont see piston size being an issue.
andy, you say that the callipers looked the same? holding up the two together there was a definite difference in weight/size with the seat cupra ones!
Well they have the same part number as G60 ones! If you give me the part numbers of the brakes which you have, both the seat and the other ones, i'll check them in the catalogues, confirm what you have.
here's an interesting addition to my brake probs. if the abs cuts in the pedal gets forced back towards me loads and feels as it should for the rest of that braking zone. then goes back to feeling awful when i press it again! thinkin of doin another bleed of them soon (as i'm prob gonna have the rear beam offfor bushes). been lookin through demon tweeks motorsport catalogue and there's three types of brake fluid that i'm thinkin of gettin...castrol srf racing, castrol response super DOT4, castrol response DOT 4. which should i get? (i don't wanna have to bleed them every week, don't wanna by the most expensive if i don't really need it). keep in mind that i have abs too, dunno if that effects which one to go for.
ahhhhh there is a special bleeding procedure for ABS make sure you have followed it I have Seat 20vt calipers on mine and have a good pedal feel
I'm talking about Fords here, but on the ABS equipped cars we use light pedal pressure ( *no pumping* ) with the ignition on pos 2 which activates the ABS pump, now with the lines all pressurised , go round each wheel in turn and bleed out - obviously you're going to shift a lot of fluid like this. Disclaimer : -I'm not sure if this will work on your Golf thou If you're gonna do track days, go for SRF if not go for Super DOT4..
may well try that..thanx gary. will srf or supe DOT4 require regualr bleedin? it's an everyday car, so i need to keep it maintenance free, or to the minimum!
Super dot 4 will need replacing every 2 years like most brake fluid. It is only the race fluids that have a very high affinity for water and their wet boiling points are very much lower than normal fluids. Something advertised as dot 4 or super dot 4 should be fine. You will only need to bleed it till all the air is in the system. Weekly bleeding is not needed with these. Gary is an expert on this tho. Edit: important bit missing! Edited by: Jettin'
