Brake failure?

[ou sont les biscuits]

TwinKam said:

Hedgehopper said:

taylormj4 said:

Thanks all for the replies.
It's only around a year since the last service when I presume they would change the brake fluid. Correct ?

I wouldn't bet on it!

I would bet on it NOT having been done. Even main dealers don't do it on newish cars in their care despite it being stipulated every 2 or 3 years (depending on the marque); it's an 'occasional extra' that it seems you have to ask for (as if most people even realise ) and so it tends to be overlooked.

I suppose it depends on which servicing schedule you follow. If you follow the TVR one it gets done every two years as part of a 12,000 mile service.

[TwinKam]

ou sont les biscuits said:

TwinKam said:

Hedgehopper said:

taylormj4 said:

Thanks all for the replies.
It's only around a year since the last service when I presume they would change the brake fluid. Correct ?

I wouldn't bet on it!

I would bet on it NOT having been done. Even main dealers don't do it on newish cars in their care despite it being stipulated every 2 or 3 years (depending on the marque); it's an 'occasional extra' that it seems you have to ask for (as if most people even realise ) and so it tends to be overlooked.

I suppose it depends on which servicing schedule you follow. If you follow the TVR one it gets done every two years as part of a 12,000 mile service.

...it's supposed to get done...

[N7GTX]

You could buy one of these (cheap) to see if the fluid does actually need changing
http://www.halfords.com/workshop-tools/tools/hand-...

I use one like this (not so cheap); http://www.ap-tech.co.uk/products/details/509.html

Edited by N7GTX on Monday 24th July 18:38

[TwinKam]

But those only test the accessible fluid in the reservoir, fluid that is not actually in the braking system! This is why testing of it has not been brought in as part of the MoT Test; it would be all too easy to vac out the reservoir and renew only that fluid, leaving the system full of contaminated, Lawd knows how old, fluid.
Far better, then, to just change it every two years, regardless.
Yet in my experience it is often overlooked/omitted, even by the main dealers*, the representatives of the manufacturers, whom one would expect to follow service schedules to the letter... hahahaha

• Please note, I am not talking about TVR specialists here.