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pompeyfan1

Thanks for all your replys the car is due a MOT at the end of the month so I will mention it to the garage hopefully the car will be fine till then!!
Thanks a lot!! :money:

colino

First of all, I don't rate the garage you went to much. You have an undiagnosed noise under braking and he should have either given a clear diagnosis of the fault and the cure, or put his hands up and say its beyond him, take it elsewhere.
Don't wait until the MOT, get a friendly independent to check over the car carefully, it could be anything in the brake system or suspension or might just be something daft like the pedal return spring. Either way, don't leave a brake fault for any length of time if you are using the car.

Strider590

colino wrote: »

First of all, I don't rate the garage you went to much. You have an undiagnosed noise under braking and he should have either given a clear diagnosis of the fault and the cure, or put his hands up and say its beyond him, take it elsewhere..

To be fair, when your average muggle goes into a garage, they don't know how to describe a fault. They waffle on about totally irrelevant things and the mechanics eye's start to glaze over as they think "get out of my face you thick !!!!!!". Technical people describe things methodically and logically, most other people just talk a load of carp.

So when you come in describing a fault as (for example) "a funny burning smell that happened in the McD's drive thu, just as a large bird landed on the bonnet and poo'd on the windscreen and a train went past", they think "can I just punch this person?" followed by "oh I bet the fool has just left the hand brake on or has been riding the clutch".

It's wrong, yes very wrong, but at some point they've wasted hours trying to find a fault that was actually just down to how the customer drives, you can understand why they sometimes don't seem to bother.
Especially so when the fault is not immediately apparent.

I've been called to fix a PC where the owner had gotten confused and starting using the mouse buttons the opposite way around, they described the fault as "nothing works, every time I click on something this little menu comes up", fixed over the phone for free, after much head rubbing and confusion, you just don't expect people to be THAT dumb.

Off on a tangent there, no offence to OP... Just trying to explain what it's like to faced with illogical fault descriptions.

eddi

Pompey if you register on the Mk4 Golf Forum http://uk-mkivs.net/ there are usually helpful souls not too far away from you who have vagcom loaded on their laptops and will be happy to plug your car into diagnostics and/or have a butchers behind your wheels to see if they can spot anything obvious. I know there are chaps on the ukpassats forum that are always happy to help out so the Golf folks should be no different.

Garages will do it but you'll obviously pay a bit for the service as they have the ulterior motive of wanting to do the work.

Just put up a post similar to what you put on here with your explanation of what's happened and that you've been told running it through vagcom might be useful?

Good luck

cyclonebri1

colino wrote: »

First of all, I don't rate the garage you went to much. You have an undiagnosed noise under braking and he should have either given a clear diagnosis of the fault and the cure, or put his hands up and say its beyond him, take it elsewhere.
Don't wait until the MOT, get a friendly independent to check over the car carefully, it could be anything in the brake system or suspension or might just be something daft like the pedal return spring. Either way, don't leave a brake fault for any length of time if you are using the car.

The problem is that it is an intermitant fault, it didn't do it when the garage had it and it didn't when it came out of the garage. You can't blame them for not diagnosing a fault that wasn't there,

Given the added info that the abs light comes on every now and again reinforces the idea that some thing has wrapped around a drive shaft an disc assembly and partially clog the ABS rotor. I#ts a common issue with any car and be a plastic bag, bit of lorry rope even twig or such like.

The most misleading thing here is the OPs description being "a twanging noise" :eek: