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Brakes

Master Cylinder Replacement

One of the last of the jobs on the list before I’m almost ready to book her in for an MOT was to bleed the brakes. I was all set and ready to go, to only find out that what I thought was a sticky pedal from the car having no brake fluid in the system for a whilem was actually the mastercyliner stuck pretty solid! There was a very small bit of initial movement, but no way you would be able to bleed the brakes. So, time for a google! After a bit of searching it seemed to look…

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Brakes

Fitting the new front discs and callipers.

This week i got the new calipers, so it was time to get the front brakes all sorted out. I struggled to find the callipers as they are 2 parts, the calliper and the carrier and loads of places sell the calliper but not the carrier. But after a bit of searching, I found a complete set on eBay (https://www.ebay.co.uk/str/genuineaudivwparts) and it looks like he also does some other Fiat stuff as well as I saw the rear pistons on his listing. I got all the bits out and started to fit them and then realised I didn’t have the…

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