Wow, its funny somebody should post on this thread
Errrm no i suppose could be the answer, not really had much luck to be honest over the last few weeks.
I had got to a stage recently where i had let a garage local to me (riverview garage) do a complete brake bleed and an MOT.
Both went rather well with it sailing through the MOT and the brake test being all fine and the brakes feeling consistantly soft'ish rather than on and off soft'ish, this i could kinda deal with as i know there only four pots and its not going to stop on a dime.
But I still wasnt quite happy with them and so recently decided to buy some nice HEL braided brake lines as i had a thought in the back of my mind that one or maybe all of the hoses could be slightly perished being over 12 years old.
Now heres where im slightly ticked off, Had them fitted buy the same garage and got the wife to pick the scoob up. She rang me to say she had brought it home from around the corner and noticed how poo they were. Now for her to notice something like that i knew something was still wrong!!
So Had a wee look after work with a torch and im not very impressed with the install of the hose retaining clips were they join to the suspension struts
, It seem like they have let a trainee do it, i.e bashed off with a tool thats not fit for the job and then put back any old how to just get it done, then theres the 8mm nuts that join the hard pipes to the flexi ones, I dont think they own an 8mm spanner, Grips seemed to be the choice of tool for every job done there. oh and the nice drop of oil spilt down on the headers which smelt lovely. ( going out with camera to post up pics soon of carnage )
All i can say is i wont be using them again thats for sure!!! Why is it so hard these days to get somebody or a company to do a PROPER JOB!
So whats left now to do?, well in the back of my head something is telling me to re bleed them as i did get them to a resonable level second time round and i have loads of fluid left over so its just a bit of my time taken up not more pennies, Im still thinking they have left air in there. If not then i will just change the calipers out right for somthing newer, which in the long run i should of just done.
Crowman did give me the thought of seeing if sombody has any spare old calipers laying around? Long shot i know, and do i really want to change such a messy part over knowing ill have to do it all again when i buy some new ones if it works.
Oh the joys of owning a scooby.
