If anyone is experiencing shuddering when breaking then this COULD be crap building up on the front discs due to stop/start urban driving. Look at them & if you can see dark patches on the shiny discs then try this;

Find a safe driving place to carry out a series of rapid decellerations.which hopefully will knock off the crap.

Get up to 60mph & brake till slowly rolling. Repeat till pads have knocked off the Disc crap

It worked for me thanks to advice given on this site.

Also saved me loads of cash too.

Rob.

My brakes developed this after they hauled the car down from 130mph a couple of times. Couldnt get them clean using the above method but a wire brush soon sorted tham out.

I suppose its a bit like "bobbling" you get on fabric (and Fabia seats?)

Hi

The best way to cure the problem is to avoid it where possible. If you let the car come to rest while the discs / pads are still really hot, then with some compounds some of the pad will stick to the disc in the area where the two are in contact. Let the car keep rolling until the brakes have cooled. Alternatively, if you must stop, try and just let the car sit without any pressure on the brake pedal and aviod using the handbrake if possible as well.

Chris

Yeah, I've heard this as well... as you come to a stop, let go of the brake if it's safe to do so and let the car 'settle' to a stop. Not only do you not blind the person behind you with brake lights (as you likely will this time of year) but hot pads are not touching discs.

Use the foot or handbrake if you need to, but unless you live in Hillyville I think you can just rest at most stops with everything off and avoid this.

Seeing as this thread is about brakes

:rofl: :rofl: :rofl:

Hi

The best way to cure the problem is to avoid it where possible. If you let the car come to rest while the discs / pads are still really hot' date=' then with some compounds some of the pad will stick to the disc in the area where the two are in contact. Let the car keep rolling until the brakes have cooled. Alternatively, if you must stop, try and just let the car sit without any pressure on the brake pedal and aviod using the handbrake if possible as well.

Chris[/quote']

Used to run my 205 1.9 GTI on trackdays....and after a few laps of the GP circuit at Silverstone the discs got very hot.....eveyone was warned not to put the handbrake on when parking up after a session....pads had been known to 'weld' themselves to the hot discs

Keith

Seeing as this thread is about brakes

Can someone pease explain the 'Mil' goings on:confused: