Persistent Brake Failure, Dealerships Fault -- Advice Please!

Smurf88

colino wrote: »

It may well be part of a chain, but the fitter doing this is clearly incompetent and needs sacked. Are you sure it's part of a manufacturers group? Strange that a glass palace not only gets it wrong frequently, but then talking to the customer that their tools are rubbish.
Unbelievable that a car coming in with a similar, dangerous fault on multiple occasions isn't being reviewed by a master tech and his boss.

You'll like this - the master tech actually worked on it the last time it was repaired.

AdrianC

Which just confirms there must be something else awry.

colino

You really need to go elsewhere then. Non destructive checks on calipers, cylinders, pipes and connectors are easy. Maybe, just maybe there is a faulty master cylinder, but a second year apprentice would have ruled that out by now.

AdrianC

colino wrote: »

Non destructive checks on calipers, cylinders, pipes and connectors are easy.

And, at less than a tenner for a flexi, and £20 for a wheel cylinder, NDT is an utterly pointless waste of money

colino

How clueless would you have to be to not see a flexi bulging or leaking; similarly looking at a caliper or cylinder moving throughout its travel and lifting the dust covers to make sure it's not leaking? Good engineering practice and money saving means you don't replace components, probably superior in construction to their replacements, just because you think they might be faulty or are cheap.

AdrianC

It's a 13yo 106. They're not OEM on there now.

And I'm not thinking of bulging etc - I'm wondering if the flanges have cracked or got damaged by the first, badly made, flares. For the same pipe to fail four times in a row, done by several people at several garages? No... Need to look wider.