s*it Car Week

[M@tt 77]

Well it seems to be the week for s*it car luck so heres mine

 

Wednesday - Missus tells me her golf is making funny noises when steering. I have a look and find the track rod it practically pulling itself out of the TRE, i tell her its dangerous to drive so she cant use it. I'm told its got to be working for friday as she has work and has to pick little one up from nursery.

 

Thursday (missus off work thursdays) - I Get new TRE and arm(£20) from GSF during lunch. I have football after work so dont get home till about 7.30 then make a start on the car in the dark on my sloped cobbled driveway with the barest collection of spanners due to most tools being buried at the back of the shed in the dark. Space is limited so wishbone also has to be removed to allow wrench in to undo track rod from the steering rack which all takes extra time and faffing. The track rod is really tight and wrench slips causing me to severely cut my thumb. Blood pissing everywhere! i actually came over really faint and sick! that eventually passed so i carried on but my mind was not totally on job due to pain and it was starting to rain.

Took car for a spin, everything seemed ok although there was a grinding from rear, got back looked and found rear caliper appeared seized! as one of the pads was wrn right down to the metal whilst the other side was fine! great!

 

Friday - Missus takes car to work with little one in, i tell her to get it tracked at the garage next to her school. The tracking place says bushes are f***ed and wont track it! She then says its making funny noises i said it will probably be the pads grating on disc bt it will be ok to get home as i've bought new pads and discs(£45). I get a phone call to say something awful has happened to car. Bacially i'd not tightened the wheel nuts up properly on the car when it was back on the floor and they all worked loose

and the wheel fell off as she went round a corner close to home. Forunately it didn't come off whilst she was on motorway! Recovery firm transport car home and the guy tells me over the phone the hub is f***ed as the threads have been stripped! So I leave work early and call into scrappy on way home to get a new hub. Scrappy tells me i need to measure discs as there are lots of different sizes. So i head home, its pissing it down with rain so rather than faff about outside, i call VW and they tell me hubs are the same on all MK4 golfs except GTI so i head back to scrappy, get my hub(£40), find out they dont take cards have to leave go find a cashpoint and come back. On way home i decide to call into tyre place to get my front tire checked as its been going down the past couple of days. They take the wheel off and tell me the alloy is cracked, and also my front 2 tyres are bald and need replaing @£100 each!!! They say theres a garage down the road that repairs them so off i go with my spacesaver on. Drop the alloy off to have crack reapiered, it'll be done monday and will cost £60

 

Saturday - up nice and early ready to replace hub, hub replacement goes ok. turn my attention to seized rear caliper, find one of the sliders has dried out due to the rubber seal perishing. Cleaned it up and re greased it and all seemd good. replaced discs and pads and then found caliper piston really stiff to wind back in. Popped the nout by pumping the pedal and cleaned up the surfaces and refitted it. Then i came to bleed the brakes and found the pedal kept pumping and pumping and the reason being the seals were f***ed on that caliper and were pissing fluid everywhere. So off i go to the local scrappy to get a new caliper. Get home £30 lighter, fit it, now the brakes won't bleed properly!!!! No air in the system as far as i can tell after using 1 litre of new fluid (didn't have any so that was another trip out to the local petrol station) so thats how i've left it tonight!!

 

So thats it!!! i've had it with cars!!!!!

 

apologies for horrible rant style writing above i couldn't get it all out quick enough

[blue_haddock 2]

and relax......

[harryskid 193]

Go out and give it a kick!

[mickie 3]

you should edit this to, "i've had it with OLD car's"

[hcmini1989 16]

Ive done a few brakes on golfs and i know the master cylinders are abit crap tend to f*ck up really easy for some reason ,Might be why there not bleeding ive been stuck a few time with this .But theres light at the end mate get your self an auto bleeder to pressurize the system usually works for some reason .

 

And i know the feeling mate i had alot of polaver the other week and it just makes you feel like why did i get out of bed.But the feeling of satisfaction when your done is great

[M@tt 77]

hcmini1989 did you have to replace the master cylinder?

 

i've been doing some googling and it seems that if the masterclinder went dry the ABS would need bleeding but this is a dealer/someone with VAG-COM tool job as you have to flick the ABS pump on. However i'm not convinced the master cylinder went dry it just feels like the pedal isn't really working properly hence thinking the mastercylinder might be funked!

[hcmini1989 16]

hcmini1989 did you have to replace the master cylinder?

 

i've been doing some googling and it seems that if the masterclinder went dry the ABS would need bleeding but this is a dealer/someone with VAG-COM tool job as you have to flick the ABS pump on. However i'm not convinced the master cylinder went dry it just feels like the pedal isn't really working properly hence thinking the mastercylinder might be funked!

 

 

We did on the first few and we never run them dry either i think its just disturbing the seals they just dont like it ,But i then had a go with a pressurised bleeder just straps onto the master cylinder and forces pressure into the system seemed to work . If i remember rightly there not that big of a job to do i think it might be two bolts and a ball joint fitting on the pedal .Allthough i do rember a few of them being feeble plastic things wich are even easier to change.

 

If your still driving it call round a few garages see if they have an auto bleeder might save you buying a master cylinder but there not to dear

 

oh and never had any problems with the abs on them either with bleeding etc ,and if you do try a few local places advertising diagnostics because it wont be the latest vagcom you need and i know alot of garages now have the older versions of vagcom .Save you going to the dealers and i know my local vw dealers are useless f*ckers

Edited October 2, 2010 by hcmini1989

[M@tt 77]

i've got an ezibleed and already used it but the pedals still the same hence thinking the seals might be fooked

[welshpug 1,657]

what kind of rear brake pressure limiting method do they use?

[Edp 67 3 Cars]

Breatheeeeeee

[309PUG 2 1 Cars]

Now I know why you don't have 1 but 2 cats, I presume one with the left foot the other the right

 

Chris

[Alastairh 47]

On the eeeeeezibleed, are you filling up the tank with fluid that people often remove / ignore? On a mates Bora 4 motion i replaced the rear calipers on the other month. This HAD to be filled up as the resivior is a touch too small to do it normally and becomes a pain in the arse.

 

Al