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I need new trousers....BenzBoy
@benzboy
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After driving the Mazda for a while I noticed a grinding noise under braking. Obviously being kind of important I had the wheels off and had a squint at the brakes. Looked like there was plenty of meat on the pads so I carried on driving it whilst thinking what the flip it could be.... On my way home today, braking for a roundabout and  POP! there I see my brake pad (well what's left of it...) in my rear view mirror. Luckily nobody was in front of me and I managed to use the hand brake to stop. Dunno how I missed it but I think one of the inside pads must've worn more than the rest. I do feel I'm one lucky mo' fo' though - if it'd happened at any other point in my journey it could've been a different story! Now I need new brake pads and a new pair of trousers. And I have to get the bus!! AAAaarrrrgh!! |
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I need new trousers....rustingdeathtrap
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Scary stuff.
If the pads have got that bad your likely to need discs too though.
Has it popped the piston out of the caliper too?
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Christ thats scary Here have some brown trousers  |
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jesus!! sorry mate  |
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"quote hairnet"
I'm not paying nine pound for a pi$$!
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Scary stuff I had the brakes go on a LWB Transit at 60MPH not fun. By boss at the time wanted me to continue my deliverys.  |
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BS Nymph
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ooh dear, not good.the brakes failed on my rapid once.my  cheeks actually made a clapping sound;) |
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"He's not the messiah, he's a very naughty boy!"
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Kris
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Scary, good work with the handbrake though, you have to be on the ball to drive old cars.
The Mini lost is brakes once, a seal went on a rear slave cylinder and thats's not good with a single circuit system!!
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About 5 years ago I used to take the bus to school, an old LDV minibus. One day the brakes decided to stop working, at 50mph, on the approach to a sharp bend, on a country lane. That must have been the scariest handbrake turn I've ever experienced!!!!!! Our skillful polish bus driver stopped the van with the handbrake, nicely out of the way ;D Adam |
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2009 Westfield Megabusa
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I need new trousers....BenzBoy
@benzboy
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Well I feel better knowing it's not only me this has happened to (although I'd rather it didn't happen to any of us!) MrSigma - No worries buddy! The brakes sounded a bit odd on the way back from yours but I put that down to the discs being rusty. These things happen. If I'd have checked all the pads rather than assuming the inner ones had as much meat as the outer, I'd not be in this pickle! ;D Rev Deluxe - I think I will need new discs as they're now quite... groovy... ;D. Think it's popped the piston too  . There's a suspicious amount of fluid around the wishbone area.... (as soon as it was back on my drive I got it on axle stands... plenty of metal filings around!  ) Probably be branded a reckless ignoramus for this.... but I did drive it back home on the handbrake ;D. I just had to take it steady and use the gears a lot, and probably the caliper piston a bit too! I'm not in the AA or anything like that as normally I can get someone to dig me out of such holes. Sod's law that there was no curse word around when I needed them! I really hate to think what would've happened if the brakes had've gone at any other time during my day. Could've been very nasty! |
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Happened to me to, Pug 205 GT, managed to use the gears and the handbrake to stop, and then to get me home (slowly!) It is really worrying when it happens.
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Had a solid pipe burst on my v8 range rover just 3 weeks after its mot that was not nice as it aint a good idea trying to stop two tonne of britains finest with a transmission brake ;D ;D
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Last Edit: Jun 4, 2005 13:05:00 GMT by PhoenixC
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mercmad
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Flush Hard,it's a long way to McDonalds.
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Went to move my "big" project out of the shed last month,gave it a rev and suddenly remembered i haven't bought brake hoses yet!!!,It's '69 300 SEL 6.3,with no exhaust it sounded so cool i decided to wake up my dikhed neibour and smoke him out of his house with a dunlop smokescreen,nearly smoked myself out....  I am in the process of returning it to it's original colour of Blue grey metallic,AMG penta wheels,possibly electrnic LPG conversion,Alloy raditor,larger oil cooler,.....it just takes money... ;D |
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Many years ago I changed my driving style to cope with rising fuel prices; I have now reached the stage where I am contemplating keeping my eyes shut in order to lower wind resistance.
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If I remember rightly, 929 brakes (like most mazdas) have shims between the caliper carrier and the brake pad, what normally happens is corrosion builds up underneath the shim and causes the pad to bind against the disc, so when you release pressure from the system the pad that is sticking stays in contact with the disc and wears away much quicker than the rest Mk4 golf rears and loads of other cars have the same problem. The best way to stop it happening again is to clean the corrosion away with a file (don't go to mad or the new pad might be loose) and use proper brake grease (not copper slip as this washes away) then fit new shims which should be supplied with the pads (unless you buy Cheep'n'nasty
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Had a solid pipe burst on my v8 range rover just 3 weeks after its mot that was not good as it aint a good idea trying to stop two tonne of britains finest with a transmission brake ;D ;D Imagine that while towing a trailer |
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I need new trousers....DarrenW
@darrenw
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The brakes failed in my old Mini years back, and I ended up spinning 180 degrees into a kerb across a main road, which tipped it up onto its side and it slid through a hedge!
A front caliper had somehow failed - leaking fluid all over the tyre was the evidence...
Scarey stuff!
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I need new trousers....BenzBoy
@benzboy
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I got some brake pads today. Guess what? They're the wrong ones!!! What were the chances, eh?! I even broke my sacred ruled and entered Halfrauds. But it wasn't a Ford Fiest so they couldn't get them.
I'll have a look at the shim situation and see what's what.
On the up-side, as it's on stands I might as well lower it!
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Davenger
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It's only metal
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I need new trousers....Davenger
@dminifreak
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I had total brake failure on my girlfriends mini a few months back, she failed to tell me that the pedal was going right to the floor, rear wheel cylinder had gone, dumped all of its fluid into the drum. DOH!!!!
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As we're into brake failure stories... My Amazon has done it twice in the last 11 years First time was when it was still dad's, and a new brake part that turned out to be defective - not the fault of the Amazon specialist who fitted it, but they still dealt with everything free of charge and with noquestions asked. The second time was when I was dfriving, and the brake pedal went to the floor at a junction - fortunately, there wasn't a car was coming the other way!! With one or two pumps, the brakes were back, so it was still driveable after a fashion - ie if you allowed for Morris 1000 braking distances (ie two or three times what it normally took to stop). Turned out to be a leaking rear wheel cylinder, but was just letting air in but fortunately not (much) fluid out. |
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POP! 
. There's a suspicious amount of fluid around the wishbone area.... (as soon as it was back on my drive I got it on axle stands... plenty of metal filings around! 
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