Hey guys,

 

Re: Fabia I VRS

Just been on holiday in France for the past couple of weeks and had the frightening experience of complete brake failure. I diagnosed the problem straight away as splits at both ends of the vacuum hose that connects to the tandem diesel pump, hence due to vacuum leak I completely lost vacuum brake servo assistance. A rather helpful chap in a French garage simply replaced this short section of hose with a piece of standard rubber fuel hose and since then everything seems perfectly fine. My question relates to the safety of this fix. All the previous posts (eg. http://www.briskoda.net/forums/topic/319503-noob-question-broken-brake-vacuum-hose-split/) on this common problem mention a complete replacement with a new part costing around £25, not a simple fix like mine with about 10p worth of hose. Am I missing something here?

 

Thanks in advance :-)

Edited 20 August, 201510 yr by piggoy

Hey guys,

 

Re: Fabia I VRS

Just been on holiday in France for the past couple of weeks and had the frightening experience of complete brake failure. I diagnosed the problem straight away as splits at both ends of the vacuum hose that connects to the tandem diesel pump, hence due to vacuum leak I completely lost vacuum brake servo assistance. A rather helpful chap in a French garage simply replaced this short section of hose with a piece of standard rubber fuel hose and since then everything seems perfectly fine. My question relates to the safety of this fix. All the previous posts (eg. http://www.briskoda.net/forums/topic/319503-noob-question-broken-brake-vacuum-hose-split/) on this common problem mention a complete replacement with a new part costing around £25, not a simple fix like mine with about 10p worth of hose. Am I missing something here?

 

Thanks in advance :-)

 

it'll be fine unless it goes soft and gets sucked flat, that's why vacuum lines are usually hard plastic.

I used blue silicone pipes to fix mine, change, but a change of pipe would do it easily enough as long as it is suitable.