NO bRAKES! HELP! - Saxperience

spencer_cammedvts · 6th February 2009, 08:36

IBIZA CUPRA T

i ent to macdonalds last night. brakes were working finr but when i went to push the pedal down to stop in a car parking space they barey worked!

the pedal went straight down to the floor and i hit the curb ripping my front LCR splitter off.

iv ordered a new master cylinder already but is there anything else it could be?

iv lost no fluid and there are no leaks anywhere

iw_laurence · 6th February 2009, 08:49

broken pedal?

spencer_cammedvts · 6th February 2009, 09:28

ner the pedal is fine mate. the mechanism is still spot on. there is just hardly any resistance till your pedal is nearly touching the floor!

666 · 6th February 2009, 09:33

master cylinder mate, i had one go one me

Saxo_Steveo · 6th February 2009, 09:47

Yep def the master cylinder mate good shout

Sparco_Tom · 6th February 2009, 10:48

lucky you got away with it mate. could of been much worse

spencer_cammedvts · 6th February 2009, 11:43

i know mate. id just come of the motorway!

CampDavid · 6th February 2009, 12:51

It sounds like it's lost fluid somewhere, check the master cylinder, could also be a caliper. I take it disks are fitted all round? If not the the rear brake drum slave cylinders are a likely shout

Karl · 6th February 2009, 13:02

I just had the same thing in the Saxo,
walked into work.

any ideas.

CampDavid · 6th February 2009, 13:07

Hmmmm

If the brakes fluid is polluted, then it could I guess freeze, which would ezplain both at once

Otherwise Carl see above

Karl · 6th February 2009, 13:14

Hmmm
my Hazard sign (same as handbrake applied) was intermittently flickering/ somepoints permanently on too/

spencer_cammedvts · 6th February 2009, 14:45

Quote:

Originally Posted by CampDavid

It sounds like it's lost fluid somewhere, check the master cylinder, could also be a caliper. I take it disks are fitted all round? If not the the rear brake drum slave cylinders are a likely shout

fluid is the same mate. its not lost any. sounds like one of the diaphrams in the master cylinder have gone but im not too clued up on them.

yer disks all round mate. if i ram the brakes on just one wheel locks up.

Mystic^p · 6th February 2009, 14:50

If your able to lock a wheel still i cant be the cylindar can it?

Give them a good bleeding out first i'd say.

spencer_cammedvts · 9th February 2009, 16:56

but it was just like all of a suden! and the fact that its lost no fluid too?

i went down the road and pressed the brakes then got out the car and the front right & back left discs were warm (ish) and the other two were cold.???