Hi everyone.

I want to do a complete brake fluid change on the fabia mk3 2015, and need to know how much brake fluid to buy?

My model only has the 2 front calipers, the rears are drum.

Thanks.

It wants just over 1Lt but a 1Lt bottle will do the job.

 

Thanks, AG Falco

Great!, thanks for that AGFalco.

From looking at various official VW Group workshop manuals, it seems every possible car from the smallest to the biggest "uses" 1ltr for an auto and 1.15ltr for a manual trans.

 

I've always managed with 1ltr though.

 

I just remove as much as possible of the old fluid, "take" 0.35ltr from the longest rear line, 0.25ltr from the other rear line and 0.15ltr from each front line.

 

The official quantities are 0.3ltr from each rear lines and 0.2ltr from each front lines, and if you include the clutch, 0.15ltr from that line.

 

Not an issue, just a comment, I normally buy brake fluid from any VW Group dealership - it is normally cheaper than buying on the high street, so, today I dropped into a Skoda dealership as I was passing by, "we have never ever sold brake fluid in 1litre tins, it is always bought in in bulk for the workshop", oh well, different person than that that served me 2 years ago!  My local Audi dealership was near there but I didn't really feel the need to go through the "meet and greet" and being shown to a seat and offered tea/coffee by a pretty lady, then waiting for the parts guy to appear from behind the glossy showroom, I can put up with that if I need spares though. So, on the way home I stopped off at a VW Van Centre, where I had bought brake fluid from in the past - same story! Finally I gave in and found that D Cox a dealership in Morecombe was selling brake fluid at a very good price, so I bought a couple of tins.

 

I had heard about VW not selling brake fluid maybe 2 years ago, from an old guy down in London, but my local VW dealership, when phoned rubbished that story and said that they still stocked plenty of 1litre tins.

I buy a cheap bag of sawdust/wood shavings and soak up the old brake fluid in that, as that seems to be an accepted way of preparing it for disposal in the grey landfill bin.

 

Edit:- our "landfill" gets fed into a furnace for conversion into heat energy - so the story goes.

Edited 25 March, 20224 yr by rum4mo

15 hours ago, Gazbc said:

Hi everyone.

I want to do a complete brake fluid change on the fabia mk3 2015, and need to know how much brake fluid to buy?

My model only has the 2 front calipers, the rears are drum.

Thanks.

1 litre minimum to do the base change; I'd also want another 250ml bottle (separate container) to top up and do a bleed.

Ok, thanks everyone👍