Motul RBF 600 3x500mml purchased @ Opieoils, who have 25% off discount right now - including (optional) stickers @1.49 it works out £11/bottle!

How many cars are you doing ?

I like to make sure I pump all the old fluid out

They had an offer I couldn't refuse! Two bottles not much cheaper than three with the double discount. It should be enough for two fluid changes. I wonder if vRS is going to withstand my way of braking - very late, and as hard as tyres can handle. Heats the discs to higher temps, and leaves more time to dissipate that energy - the rate of heat dissipation depends the most on deltaT .

What was the boiling point of RBF600 again?

You should get three changes if you are lucky

OK, I have spoken to my neighbour who works in the oil world, he can get me this brake fluid for £7 a bottle, it states high temperature and extremes, 1 litre bottle too. WDYT?

Castrol 15037E React Performance Dot 4 1L

Take care not to be getting air into the ABS pump.

All should be straightforward, but if there is any problem you may require VAG-COM.

george

VAG COM, Why George? I was hoping to use an easy bleed to just force new oil through and chase the oil stuff out. do one corner at a time in a rotation.

I am hoping half a litre per corner is more than enough.

Another option is the super blue stuff , its cheaper than rbf600 and very good , it has a blue tint that makes bleeding easier

No VAG-COM should be required if its a nice clean flush and all done without getting air in the ABS Pump. (a dry ABS pump)

Just sometimes better to be pre warned like i was, cuts down on surprises.

No idea if the information given to me was correct.

http://www.ross-tech...bsbleeding.html

george

Good info George ABS as You say I do not think I will be needing this as I will have brake fluid in the reservoir at all times so there will never be any air in the system.

James, you should have said earlier!!! Just could have saved a tenner :(. But then again we are not neighbours exactly . All is good, the price I got it at is a steal anyway .

I hope he can get the fluid for me, he has it in his catalogue and is making calls for me, so fingers crossed. He usually comes up trumps though, he has got me some really specialist things in the past for very old race cars and some of the super oils required by Evo's and the like.

He also gets me the 5-30 for the Fabia at a whopping £20 for 4 litres lol. It has stil cost me a bomb at that price.

http://www.skoda.workshop-manuals.com/fabia-mk2/index.php?id=197

I have bled my brakes today, there was air in the system, so all gone now.

Problem is brakes are still poor, upon further investigation there is a greasy residue coating the backs of the discs, so it looks like I will have to strip them at the weekend and replace the pads and clean the discs up.

CV boots are in tact so any ideas where the slippy stuff is coming from?

Could it be from the Molasses (I kid you not) they occasionally mix with road salt to stop is disappearing off the road too quick (when they spread it too early)?

I have bled my brakes today, there was air in the system, so all gone now.

Problem is brakes are still poor, upon further investigation there is a greasy residue coating the backs of the discs, so it looks like I will have to strip them at the weekend and replace the pads and clean the discs up.

CV boots are in tact so any ideas where the slippy stuff is coming from?

Can't you just buy a spray can of brake cleaner and clean them with it without stripping? Should do the trick if they are contaminated.

Can't you just buy a spray can of brake cleaner and clean them with it without stripping? Should do the trick if they are contaminated.

Jabo, I washed the brakes with TFR and then I used Isopropyl alcohol this is a great degreaser, within a few miles the problem re occurs.

I am at Mitchells now having a heated seat pad replaced on the Yeti, under warranty too, 90,000 miles or three years :-)

They have said I can just run the Fabia in and they will look at the brakes, if necessary they will repair whatever is greasing my discs and replace the pads etc under warranty.

I will let you know the outcome.

Cheers

If the contamination continues then no amount of cleaning and stripping will help until the source of said contamination is found and repaired. I wonder what your service tech is going to say following the inspection. Did you tell him you cooked the fluid at CC ? .

Easy enough to boil fluid on the road but rarely happens. I've overheated brakes on the road within 10 mins. I wouldn't even mention it. May be completely unrelated.

Easy enough to boil fluid on the road but rarely happens. I've overheated brakes on the road within 10 mins. I wouldn't even mention it. May be completely unrelated.

You're not alone ther mate . Had smoke pouring from mine (on Lupo) a few times

Wow, I have enough trouble cooking them on track!

Never had fade on the road.

Wow, I have enough trouble cooking them on track!

Never had fade on the road.

You obviously not driving hard enough

My first car (Astra) would often cook it's brakes but being 18 I'd often drive it harder than it was ever designed to be. Only once or twice with the vRS have I started to get fade on the road. It doesn't have to slow as much for corners.

I think the grease has got hot on the hub/CV and is weeping onto the back of the disc, ducting might be the order of the day for How Fast or those TT add ons that were mentioned earlier in this thread.

Of course the answer from the sales team at Mitchells was to trade it in on a new one!

So you reckon it got past the seals, crept along the axle and by centrifugal force made its way to the discs?

no other explanation really, unless it has come from the wheel bearing? That is sealed and dry though.

Until the wheels come off on Saturday I am only guessing, all I know is that the brakes are still rubbish and there is a greasy film on the back of the discs.

I will take pictures when it gets stripped down.