Pressure brake bleed kit.

[Mark_Cut]

Simple question are they worth it? I'm due to do my wife's Sportage 2019.

Probably will use one a year at most.

Circa 30 quid (Amazon) vs 60 to 70 p/hrs at a workshop.

But if the home kits are rubbish I won't bother.

[matchmaker]

I've used a Gunsons Easybleed for many years. Brilliant piece of kit.

[MDT]

Got one of these last year to replace my gunson easy bleed one.

both are good bits of kit, would say the Amazon linked one is a bit easier to use not needing to have a tyre down at the right pressure. But both work as well as each other in operation.


https://www.amazon.co.uk/Zoomtools-Bleeding-Automo...

[RSstuff]

I use a Gunson eezibleed. And recently added one way valve kit that mounts onto the caliper, maybe overkill, but it was only around £6 from Halfords.

[ARH]

MDT said:

Got one of these last year to replace my gunson easy bleed one.

both are good bits of kit, would say the Amazon linked one is a bit easier to use not needing to have a tyre down at the right pressure. But both work as well as each other in operation.


https://www.amazon.co.uk/Zoomtools-Bleeding-Automo...

I used eazibleed for years and just changed to one of these for my last bleed the other week, works a treat. Mine only cost £16 though

The one issue is you need to leave the lid on the collection bottle loose or it just pressurises the bottle as well and it wont bleed then.

[Tim Cognito]

To balance the above, I've got a gunson eazi bleed and the one time I tried it I ended up decorating my engine bay with brake fluid and I've not been inclined to try again.

[thebraketester]

Sealey VS820.

[E-bmw]

Tim Cognito said:

To balance the above, I've got a gunson eazi bleed and the one time I tried it I ended up decorating my engine bay with brake fluid and I've not been inclined to try again.

Even though the instructions say to do it, if you don't fill the interim reservoir that can't hppen unless you over-pressurise from your spare tyre.

[darreni]

thebraketester said:

Sealey VS820.

VS820 for me too. Been brilliant across all of our cars.

[Mark_Cut]

Thanks for all the replies. I willl probably go for Gunson or Amazon version. As much as the Sealey one looks good, I can't justify the price for once a year job.

[Mark_Cut]

Thanks for all the replies. I willl probably go for Gunson or Amazon version. As much as the Sealey one looks good, I can't justify the price for once a year job.

[thebraketester]

Buy once cry once

[MDT]

thebraketester said:

Buy once cry once

I would table the suggestion that the Sealey VS820 and "the Amazon one" are in fact the same products from the same factory. The only difference is that the Sealey one is twice the price.

[Digga]

MDT said:

thebraketester said:

Buy once cry once

I would table the suggestion that the Sealey VS820 and "the Amazon one" are in fact the same products from the same factory. The only difference is that the Sealey one is twice the price.

These days it is hard to know. Those clever Chinese can reverse engineer stuff to look the same, but whether the quality of build, materials and performance match is something of a lottery.

All I can say for sure is that the Sealey unit works extremely well on my GT3RS. It still takes quite a while to do a proper bleed - about 200ml per corner - it just trickles out over a few minutes. I bought the drain bottle too, which make the job very easy to measure and manage.

[Hereward]

darreni said:

thebraketester said:

Sealey VS820.

VS820 for me too. Been brilliant across all of our cars.

Ditto. I use it empty, to avoid the risk of leaks. Just pressurise it to 10psi and away you go.

I did have an Eezibleed. It certainly bled alright. Absolutely everywhere. Maybe it was user error.

[alabbasi]

They're worth it. I use one by a company called Motive and have had it for probably 20 years. Apart from replacing the PVC hose every so often, it's functioned perfectly. I've found that vacuum bleeding is sometimes problematic.

[GreenV8S]

Tim Cognito said:

To balance the above, I've got a gunson eazi bleed and the one time I tried it I ended up decorating my engine bay with brake fluid and I've not been inclined to try again.

Same here. The cap sorta fitted the brake fluid reservoir but didn't fit very well or very securely, and would occasionally blow off the reservoir - at which point the contents of the container sprays all over the engine bay.

[Huzzah]

GreenV8S said:

Tim Cognito said:

To balance the above, I've got a gunson eazi bleed and the one time I tried it I ended up decorating my engine bay with brake fluid and I've not been inclined to try again.

Same here. The cap sorta fitted the brake fluid reservoir but didn't fit very well or very securely, and would occasionally blow off the reservoir - at which point the contents of the container sprays all over the engine bay.

Only time this happened to me is when I forgot to drop the tyre pressure!

[pcn1]

I've gone back to the old school way.
There's usually someone in the house I'll get to sit in the car and pump the pedal while I bleed the fluid into an old jar.

Never fails.....

[RSstuff]

pcn1 said:

I've gone back to the old school way.
There's usually someone in the house I'll get to sit in the car and pump the pedal while I bleed the fluid into an old jar.

Never fails.....

Maybe, but pumping the pedal moves the piston and seal past it's normal stroke, and potentially damages the seal.