MOT time B******d it failed

[pantani201]

Took my S2 for its MOT today, it sailed throught the emissions, the mechanic commented on how good the chassis was , and then it failed on excessive judder in the front brakes, warped disc on the N/S.got on the while he wrote the fail ticket and sourced a pair at a silly low price from CES..Looks like tomorrow will be spent fitting them , along with some new calipers I picked up a while back at an equally low price.

[Pies]

At least it wasn't to major

[M@H]

Hmm... warped disc..? I think we've done this before in the past. See this:

www.stoptech.com/whitepapers/warped_rotors_myth.htm

Isn't it more likely that one of the pads was shimmying about under braking or something..?

Cheers
Matt.


>> Edited by M@H on Friday 13th February 11:21

[z_chromozone]

Warped disks are unlikely, were they measured using calipers or do they just judder a bit.

If so you can usually fix them by giving the brakes a good caining. Read M@H's thread, it worked for Dads XK8 with the same problem.

Z

[pantani201]

Thanks for the comments guys. I checked the discs out and the N/s one was just on its minimum thickness. so I fitted new ones and the calipers and pads.

>> Edited by pantani201 on Friday 13th February 16:52