Simple fixes your thought were going to cost a fortune

Simple fixes your thought were going to cost a fortune

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Flipatron

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199 months

Sunday 7th February 2016
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It's one of those little joys in life which only the home mechanic experiences.

My Freelander's brakes were getting steadily worse to the point of being dangerous. A quick google revealed all manner of possible issues (servo, master cylinder etc). Great, big £££ and all the time to fix it.

And the problem was - a small hole in a vacuum pipe. I snipped 1" off the end, pushed the pipe back onto the turbo and... fully functioning brakes! Must have taken me a total of 3 minutes from bonnet open to bonnet closed smile

I'm not going to bore you with all the times the reverse was true though. hehe