minxycov wrote
well took it to seat yesterday...they think i may have corrosion on my brakes...
Rear brakes? I expect they mean corrosion affecting the handbrake mechanism, which is mechanical cables, rods and levers acting directly on the caliper piston. The handbrake has to be completely separate from the footbrake hydraulics. The rods and levers at the caliper end are vulnerable to corrosion, eventually jamming. It's a common
problem with almost all rear disc systems, as the better alternatives (second caliper just for handbrake, or a little drum just for the handbrake, in the middle of the disc) are more expensive.
I spent hours underneath my old Golf GTI swearing at the Girling rear calipers and the
engineer who thought this was a good idea.
This doesn't usually happen on low-mileage cars though, the corrosion usually needs some time to build up. Ask them why the calipers are corroded on what you thought was a new car? This is normally the symptom of something six or more years old. Perhaps it has been standing on a dockside somewhere for a while? Or the calipers were old stock?
Get them to show you the corrosion, and explain why a new car is corroded. I think I'd want new calipers, and disks, and the whole brake system checked over, particularly the front calipers - whatever has caused the rears to corrode could have affected them too.
I hope this is all under warranty?
so they're gonna strip them down and clean them...i also gave them a load of Sh!t about the way i was treated when i bought the car...and something they pormised to do but never did....they said they'd ring me back before 6....did i get a phone call?
Give 'em hell
I said that because I've done it myself on a previous car - one of those bloody traffic islands with an abscent bollard!
