Hi i had to brake hard yesterday and the birreing and clicking sound on the pedal and brakes went hard for a second then back to normal this happend at a low speed , Basically moved forward 3ft then stopped ( traffic lights ) car in front moved of then decided not to .Anyway as i said braking from any speed above 5mph is great its just this low speed problem also do not no if this is related i could drive all day or 10 mile sometimes after being parked up i drive of and the abs and tc comes on the dash drives great leave car over night start next morning abs / tc light still on/ drive a mile or so lights go out and do not appear again Help thanks again
As above, check your ABS sensors. First thing is to tap them all the way in so that they gap themselves correctly. If that fails, you'll need to hook up some diagnostics and see if they are giving any faults.
Will do thanks
Well i finely fitted another switch in the dash for my low range as the original one on the selecter started playing up again i need my low range as moveing caravans on the farm in this weather aint the best without it .
But some good news passed mot on monday with no faults and only one advisory slight blow on rear tail pipe not to bad for 210,000 miles.
I havn,t looked at the cruise yet ( weather ) and the brakes are ok very good readings on the mot so all good for now but who knows.
Thanks all of you again.
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the brakes are ok very good readings on the mot so all good for now
Good readings? How did they test them? They should be done with the deccelerometer (thrash across the yard and stomp on the pedal) and that doesn't give any readings, just not good, good and scrape the tester off the inside of the windscreen. To get readings, actual numbers, they would need to test them on the rolling road tester which isn't good on a permanent 4 wheel drive vehicle.
Guess brake testing decelerometer tester calibration depends on the breed.
Have a Ferodo badged, but made by Tapley, brake testing meter kicking about the place which reads braking performance as a percentage of G. Scale calibrated LEVEL to 100 in unit increments numbered every 5. Level of course being zero which needs to be set before use.
Darned if I can remember how I ended up with it. One day I might make a mount and give it a try out for interest sake.
Clive
My guy just sits on it the floor in the passenger footwell. Amusing thing when his newly qualified tester did the Ascot was that he'd just driven it off the ramps having had it jacked up on the chassis with the wheels dangling. That had made the EAS think it had grounded itself so had put the suspension to extended height. Damn near fell over when he hit the brakes as the centre of gravity was so high. He tested mine a couple of weeks later, went through the test, drove out in preparation of doing the brake test and asked me how to get it down off stilts so he didn't get seasick this time.
Hot Damn! They still make 'em. Thought everything had to have a touch screen and computer chip to go on-line these days.
Says handmade on the website so gotta be ££££. Cant say that I care much for the crowded modern dial. Scale rolling through a window like mine is so much more elegant.
See some E-Bay optimist wants £30 for a genuinely battered wooden box. Now if the hefty mounting plate and wing nut adjustable carrier were still inside maybe ...
Clive
Or you could use the accelerometer on your phone ;)
You could..... But I doubt it's MoT approved. There are digital ones out there but it seems that the old wooden box with a scale on it are still approved as I know two test stations that still use them.
My tester still uses the old style gauge, I think he just likes flooring it round the block.
HI yes he did use a tamper meter but it was the fact he made no comment about the noise clicking ect but i will get the diagnostics checked just to be sure .
I now have to sort a leak on the drivers side carpet definitely not heater pipes as there is no anti freeze taste but gonna wait till the snow clears first if it ever does thanks again