Evening all. I've had a brake fault light spring up intermittently on my vrs these past couple of days. Brakes seem to be ok (daily 60 mile round trips) but noticed some oil patches on the drive next to the rear wheels - meaning leaking brake fluid!

I've bought some fluid to top up the reservoir in the morning, but having had a quick look underneath the car the brake calipers are drenched.

Can someone please shed some light on what I'm looking at to rectify? Gna be an expensive week considering my ps4 is due on Friday too! :/

Do not drive the car whatsoever

Its lethal right now

Basically you need 2x rear calipers, you can exchange your old ones for around £50-£60 a side

Cheers Jase. I think I'll work from home tomorrow, and have a ring around and get something sorted. Not quite sure how this exchange jobby works though? You trade in the old for money off new ones!? Nice.

Yes

You buy the reconned ones and then when you get them swapped over you return the originals

Why? I would think the most likely (and quite common) rear leak is the alloy washers that seal the rear brake hose to the caliper, should cost less than a quid to fix yourself

I had an issue recently. Cause was a damaged thread on the bleed nipple. Got a replacement from ECP. I took the old one off and exchanged it at the same time. Think it was around £110. If you go the none green option it's about £50.

The only other place I can think of is indeed the washer. Guess what you can't buy them from skoda seperate. It's only included in the replacement pip but it's only £20.

Failing that could the seals have perished?

Update. Took it to a garage and got it on a ramp. Faulty calipers were the cause. Swapped over with some new silver ones as cheaper and bled the fluid out the rears. £180 all in.

Problem now is that the brakes are a lot softer - so I need to push further and harder to stop compared to before the change. Rears have been bled plenty but the Fronts have not at the risk of breaking the nipples as they won't budge! :(

Problem now is that the brakes are a lot softer - so I need to push further and harder to stop compared to before the change. Rears have been bled plenty but the Fronts have not at the risk of breaking the nipples as they won't budge! :(

 

They have not bled the system correctly, unless they bled the brakes using a pressurised tool (eg. EZbleed) then could have damaged the brake master cylinder. If you bleed the brakes using the brake pedal by pressing it to the floor, it can cause failure of one of the rubber seals in the cylinder.

 

I'd be taking it back and getting the job done properly.

Thanks for the comments guys... will be taking it back for them to have another look at it me thinks.

Really need all 4 brakes bleeding along with master cylinder and clutch

Edited 27 November, 201312 yr by BigJase88

Your were right then Jase..

sounds like they have got air trapped in the abs unit so may need to activate the bleeding procedure with vcds or similar.