Brake judder after new discs and pads, help please people!
Posted: Tue Mar 13, 2007 1:02 am
Ok, bought my GTi and had a bit of a judder through the pedal and steering wheel..plot thickens. Replaced the discs and pads with EBC in Jan, fine for a while then the judder comes back a few hundred miles in (after bedding in). Bled the whole brake system and replaced with new fluid after rebuilding both front calipers today, still judders! Hub cant be bent, just wouldnt happen and the bearings are in good condition.. no noise, movement etc.
In my gti, if I do an emergency stop the ABS kicks in on the front right and at the same time the car pulls to the right. This says to me that the right calliper is applying more force to the disc .. OR the left calliper is not applying normal force to the disc as I believe the warp/fault is on the front left ( Can sometimes hear a squeak per revolution of the disc come from the front left, as if it is warped. Hopefully makes sense! I live in a house full of motorsport engineering students and its got us baffled! So I cant put on new discs and pads until I find what has warped one (if they are indeed warped).
If anyone has had this problem I would love to know if you got it sorted and what the cause of the judder was. Failing that any advice for what to check next would be greatly appreciated from anyone. I may drive it into the scrappy next time I see one if I cant find a fix soon!
In my gti, if I do an emergency stop the ABS kicks in on the front right and at the same time the car pulls to the right. This says to me that the right calliper is applying more force to the disc .. OR the left calliper is not applying normal force to the disc as I believe the warp/fault is on the front left ( Can sometimes hear a squeak per revolution of the disc come from the front left, as if it is warped. Hopefully makes sense! I live in a house full of motorsport engineering students and its got us baffled! So I cant put on new discs and pads until I find what has warped one (if they are indeed warped).
If anyone has had this problem I would love to know if you got it sorted and what the cause of the judder was. Failing that any advice for what to check next would be greatly appreciated from anyone. I may drive it into the scrappy next time I see one if I cant find a fix soon!
