Hi!

 

I am about to change the break fluid in my car. I never did it, but watched the process several times. As I remember the skoda service workers never did the change using any software, which can manage the ABS item, while the break fluid is flowing. A was told it would be necessary, because just pumping the break pedal or pressing the fluid through the pipes by any machine is not enough. With this method in the ABS item/ABS cube will remain the old fluid.

Is this true?

I have only ABS not ESP.

Is that a huge problem if I just pump with the pedal?

Do you know how much is the break fluid in the hole system?

 

Thank you very much!

I suggest you invest in an eezibleed, I had a lot of trouble bleeding the clutch without one and it's just so much easier and quicker to do it on your own, 500ml of new fluid will be plenty to get it all done. The ABS unit won't get airlocked if you dont let any air in so you needn't worry about that.

I am not afraid of the abs unit will be airlocked, but I am not sure that if I pump the break pedal then the fluid will go through it. Is there any valve or sg maybe witch should be moved by car electronics, just as the esp unit has. I watched a video, where they changed the fluid in a car with esp, and the car computer moved the esp unit in order to change the fluid in it properly. So I dont know the exact abs unit and its component. Nevertheless if the skoda service doesn't worry about it, and change the fluid without using electronics when they change, maybe I shouldn't worry about either, don't you think?

I'd still use an Eezibleed because I know from bitter experience that the clutch can get airlocked really easily.

All right, thanks for the advice.

+1 for the pressure bleed device.

 

When you use the master cylinder to bleed the brakes, the master cylinder seals get pushed down the bore of the master cylinder where they haven't been for years.

 

The cylinder walls won't be as smooth further down the bore, plus there will be some debris.

 

This can cause the master cylinder to fail afterwards & then need new seals.