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xa0s

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Registered: 4th Mar 08
Location: Dartford, Kent Car: Turbo'd Fabia vRS
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22nd Jan 12 at 02:42

Er, driving around hard tonight, leaving braking to the last possible second on a lot of corners, generally driving like a twat... Raced some Clio thingy around for a bit, braking from 120mph -> 40mph for a tight corner, done a few laps of this 'circuit' (no run off area, mess up and you're in an industrial estate building)... I then thought I'd let the car cool down a bit, parked up and had my foot resting on the brake pedal then POP, pedal hits the floor instantly, pumped a few times but it's as if a cable had snapped, there was no resistance what-so-ever, instantly hitting the floor every time...

Gotta jack her up tomorrow and see what's happened, I'm guessing a hose rubbing against the wheel, I've had my suspicions it had been happening before but could never find a way of making a hose reach the wheel. Maybe only when the suspension is compressed or something...

But yeah, I'm feeling pretty lucky, it's mad how it didn't go when anchored up proper from high speeds, but decides to go when resting my foot on the pedal... Any explanation for that?

Makes ya think though. I have had dreams about this kind of shit but always assumed it was one in a million etc.

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Registered: 5th Jul 00
Location: Aberdeen City
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22nd Jan 12 at 02:46

heat...

ps, your disc is on the wrong side

xa0s

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Location: Dartford, Kent Car: Turbo'd Fabia vRS
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22nd Jan 12 at 02:48

quote:
Originally posted by AK
heat...

ps, your disc is on the wrong side

heat.. hmm, ive driven a LOT harder elsewhere though, including track days, so i dunno? maybe over time?

and yeah i know

ill change them when i get new discs.

Graham88

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Registered: 16th Apr 07
Location: South East Kent Drives: E46 M3
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22nd Jan 12 at 03:11

Looked like it had been rubbing the copper pipe rather than the braided line, but was very hard to see

Generation

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Registered: 7th Jul 09
Location: Essex
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22nd Jan 12 at 03:19

Edit: not worth involving myself.

[Edited on 22-01-2012 by Generation]

xa0s

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Registered: 4th Mar 08
Location: Dartford, Kent Car: Turbo'd Fabia vRS
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22nd Jan 12 at 03:25

quote:
Originally posted by Generation
Edit: not worth involving myself.

[Edited on 22-01-2012 by Generation]

You can delete the post, attention seeker

Generation

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22nd Jan 12 at 03:40

True, didn't think of doing that.

I'M the attention seeker? Haha, OK.

Adios

[Edited on 22-01-2012 by Generation]

Mertin

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Registered: 12th Oct 05
Location: Scotland
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22nd Jan 12 at 03:53

Isnt sitting with your foot on the brakes asking for pad deposits (or warped discs

)

Is the fabia being broken and for sale now, or whats the plan?

Also, general question but do you race round an industrial estate (aka circuit?)

Ian

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22nd Jan 12 at 04:46

At a guess, wheel has rubbed through the pipe. Happened to me at Donington, no drama just changed the pipe and re-routed it so it wouldn't happen again.

Don't pump the pedal, you'll damage the master cylinder if it's got no load.

Alex_Rally

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Registered: 6th Sep 09
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22nd Jan 12 at 06:01

quote:
Originally posted by Mertin
Isnt sitting with your foot on the brakes asking for pad deposits (or warped discs )

Is the fabia being broken and for sale now, or whats the plan?

Also, general question but do you race round an industrial estate (aka circuit?)

i think, he thinks hes in the fast and furious ... .

Wrighty

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22nd Jan 12 at 07:28

id be thinking myself lucky after that

xa0s

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22nd Jan 12 at 07:32

quote:
Originally posted by Wrighty
id be thinking myself lucky after that

quote:
Originally posted by Mertin
Isnt sitting with your foot on the brakes asking for pad deposits (or warped discs )

Is the fabia being broken and for sale now, or whats the plan?

Also, general question but do you race round an industrial estate (aka circuit?)

already fucked and i looked after them so now i dont care, they arent getting any worse and i do all the wrong things to them now

quote:
Originally posted by Ian
At a guess, wheel has rubbed through the pipe. Happened to me at Donington, no drama just changed the pipe and re-routed it so it wouldn't happen again.

Don't pump the pedal, you'll damage the master cylinder if it's got no load.

yeh probably

and good point, forgot about that, will get a new one anyway

VrsTurbo

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22nd Jan 12 at 08:20

Sure its not the rear of the caliper there is some stories online of the D2, K-sport, XYZ doing this.

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22nd Jan 12 at 08:33

you asked why sitting with your foot on the brake would cause somthing to pop...

the extra heat transfer from roasting discs, into the pads then fluid would expand the fitting/pipe that popped a fraction.

That could have been all that was needed.

Heat soak when stopped is pretty high if discs are hot

Jambo

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22nd Jan 12 at 10:59

Cool story bro

mattk

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22nd Jan 12 at 11:04

Your racing round industrial estates on a saturday night and Im sat in the pub with my friends. I have such a normal life.

TimC909

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22nd Jan 12 at 11:09

quote:
Originally posted by AK
ps, your disc is on the wrong side

How can you tell? I can't see if the internal vents are straight (would'nt matter a jot then) or curved (then it would matter). The grooves on the disc surface can face any way they want to.

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Registered: 20th May 02
Location: Kent
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22nd Jan 12 at 12:20

Resv properly popped as they do on most vag stuff of a certain age

What it doesn't explain is why your such a cunt

Steve

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Registered: 30th Mar 02
Location: Worcestershire Drives: Defender
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22nd Jan 12 at 12:23

Anyone who thinks this is a trolling attempt, it isnt, he was with a girl who posted about being scared on his status about it.

So lets call it two people that should probably be dead

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Registered: 20th May 02
Location: Kent
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22nd Jan 12 at 12:25

I like the face it drove to a party afterwards to, with no brakes too

Dan295

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22nd Jan 12 at 12:27

quote:
Originally posted by jr
What it doesn't explain is why your such a cunt

^this

John

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22nd Jan 12 at 12:32

Racing round an industrial estate with a girl in the car and no depth perception

Mike

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Location: nr. Skipton, North Yorkshire
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22nd Jan 12 at 12:36

quote:
Originally posted by Wrighty
id be thinking myself lucky after that

That's the problem, he seems to keep getting lucky when driving like a clert and therefore isn't learning from it and continues to drive in a dangerous manner. I just hope the day his luck does run out, he doesn't take any innocent bystanders with him.

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Location: Kent
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22nd Jan 12 at 12:43

quote:
Originally posted by John
Racing round an industrial estate with a girl in the car and no depth perception

alan-g-w

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Registered: 9th Nov 07
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22nd Jan 12 at 13:01

quote:
Originally posted by Mike

quote:
Originally posted by Wrighty
id be thinking myself lucky after that

That's the problem, he seems to keep getting lucky when driving like a clert and therefore isn't learning from it and continues to drive in a dangerous manner. I just hope the day his luck does run out, he doesn't take any innocent bystanders with him.

Sorry Mike but I'll put money on the fact that you're driven in what would be classed as a 'dangerous manner', the same as anyone else on here. Let's not start with the holier than thou stuff

Hilarious that xaos is calling someone else an attention seeker though

if you 'should probably be dead' mate does that mean that i'm walking around on borrowed time because a 70kg pulley fell off and landed where I had been standing 30secs before? Get a grip nancy boy

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