cosworth brakes.
cosworth brakes.
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dazcourcey

Original Poster:

4 posts

205 months

Tuesday 3rd November 2009
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ive recently purchased a sapphire cosworth on a 91 plate,the car is mint with a stage 1 tune,i went out for a blast today and i noticed a lot of juddering under heavy braking!!can anyone tell me if theres a problem please and roughly how much it would costconfused
thanks daz

browser07

100 posts

212 months

Wednesday 4th November 2009
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sounds like ur discs are bent use a dial gauage to check the runout
new pair and it will be solved

mite aswell if a set of pads to

had the same problem with my old sapp

dan

dazcourcey

Original Poster:

4 posts

205 months

Thursday 5th November 2009
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thanks dan much appreciated,im gona check the track rod ends,top and bottom ball joints and anti roll bar bushes first tho mate,i found a decent set of disks and yellow stuff pads on ebay for around the 180 quid mark.
cheers matebiggrin

Zad

12,970 posts

262 months

Friday 6th November 2009
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Yes, check the bushes! At one point my XR4x4 had juddering under braking, and quite a lot of wobble at around 60-80mph. Tracking / wheel balancing had little effect. Then it failed the MoT on ARB bushes and I had them replaced with uprated ones. Result - no more wobble!