rear brake imbalance - aaargh

That is possible, but unlikely if as you've said before it bleeds out OK. (I assume without the need for excessive pedal effort.) How can a caliper be overhauled in february and then not work for an MOT in march and have a rusty hydraulic piston? I await the outcome with interest.
 
So! its almost 2 wks later!! ???
come on fenton? cough up!! what was wrong with the rear caliper ????????????? :p
 
No idea - waiting on bits ordered from UK. One idea someone came up with over here is perhaps the "springs" in one caliper are weaker in one caliper than the other which didnt show up in braking effect when the brakes were binding like mad.
 
Can't see how you are ordering parts if you don't know what's wrong with it. Sounds like guesswork to me.
 
Just returned from the 5th visit to the MOT place with a PASS.

I gave up on the original calipers - as they were literally burning money. So car is back on the road.

Ovber here MOT stations are massive hanger like affairs - our one has 8 lanes. As I arrived in the retest lane - the chap before looking at the papers - said - "back again for the brakes"

I suspect if I arrived with an Opel Corsa he wouldnt have recognised me!
 
It's good you finally got a PASS, but I have to say I would need to find the fault with the calipers that were on the car, before taking them back to the bloke who overhauled (???) them in February, and shoving the pair of them right up his............
 
To be fair - the seals were looked at here since Feb, and a brake bod here replaced them again to no effect. I suspect that the fualt was more to do with something else - maybe the S springs in the caliper?

If I lived in the UK - Im sure there would have been no problme in taking the car back to where it was originally done. But that wasnt an option.

I had another set of rear calipers which I will be sending off as the "exchange" for the reconditioned ,new ones, and I will keep the calipers that have come off the car as a souvenir reminder!

Anyway - all I care about is the 2000tc is back on the road.

She is a lot more comfy over speed bumps and potholes than the P6 estate - so whole family is pleased! - though the V8 sounds a lot more meaty!:p
 
Am I correct that you have to pay full fee for MOT in the UK for retests for your car?

Here you only pay for the element that needs retesting - so instead of paying the full fee each time (35€ £22) you pay in my case 9€ (£6) for each retest. So some things here are pretty good!! :cool:
 
Providing you meet certain criteria, it's not always a full fee for a re test, athough I can't remember exactly what does and doesn't qualify, a lot of the cost of the re test is at the disgression of the testing station.
Because I've used the same teststations for years I never pay for re tests, having said that, because I checkover before I go in, I don't get failures (they wouldn't dare!!! :p )
The cost of the test over here is just over £50.
 
Over here the fees are pretty much descretionary, the gov't sets the maximum and recomends re-test levels etc, but the garage can charge as little as they wish. The introduction of the cumputerised system here over the past couple of years has caused a few problems as it virtually forces the tester to carry out full re-tests for certain failures. But again it depends on what they tell the system it failed on.....

Don't know what the situation is like over there, but over here if you take a car to a garage that you don't know well, and they do repairs, you can pretty much guarantee it will fail on something like brakes/shocks/tyres not because it should fail, but because they are the easiest things to fix for the garage to make extra money on. The best places to go for a fair test are the council run test stations. They don't do repairs so you get a fair test. They do however always charge the full fee, and stick to the re-test guidelines religiously.
 
Here in Belgium the tests are done by the state. No garage involvement at all. Also if you want to sell your car you have to have a new test done (even if you passed one just a month before) Also if you want to sell a nearly new car - it has to have a special "to sell" test.
 
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