Have noticed in a couple of situations that I've needed more braking force on the pedal than I would normally deem necessary to stop how I wanted to. :( Now my DS2500s still have OODLES of wear left in them, and the disks *appear* to be OK... How do you really know when a disk is starting to deteriorate? I'm having the cambelt done on Saturday so might take that opportunity for a damn good brake inspection!

But, since I've had the car at 30000 miles I've not touched the brakes apart from putting the DS2500s in... Maybe time for special disks

you measure how thick they are

fluid.

your not using dot 5.1 are you ??

your not using dot 5.1 are you ??

I'm using uprated fluid yes, and maybe it is advisable for me to re-bleed them again. This has only happened or been noticeable in kind of "better stop sort of quick" situations, and normally they're fine... Its when pushed they do it.

Starting to think fluid now myself. Cheers Paul. I also notice the ABS coming on a bit more often too... But that could be coincidental.

edit: I should say not ME re-bleed them, but get them re-bled by someone in the know.

if its dot 5.1 dont use it as this what hapens it needs replacing very often and bleeding even more so

its very hydroscopic absorbs water well and fast

better using super dot4 has all the advantages of dot5.1 but is less suceptable to water

I do have super dot 4 I believe - came in 500ml Castrol bottles IIRC. They've been fine for the 20,000 miles+, but it probably just needs re-bleeding, or the disks are starting to wear out and need replacing.

just replace the fluid its only

Really think the fluid can just wear out after 20,000 miles? :eek:

I'm still hedging my bets on needing new disks all round, but keeping an open mind until Saturday when, my car will be in bits anyway.

well do them both disks and fluid tbh its no harder to replace the fluid than to just bleed them bud

Could be the pads / disks are contaminated with all the water and road salt around at the mo.

You can if you 'trash' the brakes hard - I reckon it needs doing on my metro as it appears to have less feel than before. Must be the 7x-ish mph to zero stops at Reading which seem to happen more regularly than I'd like