Front Brakes Nearly Failed Mot, Upgrade Time

[johnnyboy666 195 1 Cars]

wouldnt bother with discs on the rear, they dont tend to be worth it.

[welshpug 1,646]

just strip and clean the rear drums, cheapest and most effective way to sort your rear brakes.

[Tesstuff 222]

Rear drums on a 205 are best, lovely handbrake too, changing to discs is not an upgrade.

[Russ_T 1]

Damn you all, that's not the answer I wanted.

 

I'll have the drums off tomorrow and price up the parts or stick them in the blast cabinet and wait on a rear beam for the torsion bars and arbs.

 

Thanks

[welshpug 1,646]

are you after a gti beam?

[Russ_T 1]

Well I want to lower mine a bit, and therefore could do with stiffening it up. If I'm going that far I'll have the beam off anyway no doubt, and my pet hate are drums (due to my first car, a 306 1.8XT having crap ones that caused me no end of grief) so thought whilst I'm at it do everything ...

 

Chipstick lives about 300yrds from me and might have one for sale in a couple of months, I partly blame my sticking drum for my 38mpg though so sooner I fix it the better.

 

Also when I get it I can put my GTi springs on and sort the stance a little

[Russ_T 1]

Off topic, but not worth a new thread. On my MOT I have "slight movement in the upper attachment" for the front shocks, so my upper mount are on their way out. Without taking it all apart to inspect, as I'm having a blonde moment, can anyone tell me which (if any) of these I'll be wanting?

 

Thank you

 

[Simes 248 2 Cars]

Strut mount bearing is the bit you want.

 

You can buy a complete kit which includes rubber, bearing and the rest of the upper assembly.