Intermittent poor brakes on 182

[gupdogz182]

Most of the time my brakes on my 55 plate 182 (cup pack) are great, but occationally when I jump in the car they are seriously rubbish. I'm pushing really hard and not a lot is happening. After a fair bit of pumping the pedal, they get going again. But it is a worry.
I first thought it was the very cold weather we were having. But it happens now and again in the fair weather too.
Could their be air in the system - do they need bled?

cheers

 

[jack_kemp]

A bleed and a clean up will fix most things. Put some decent fluid in while you're at it.

 

[Sash]

Check your CV joints, if they leak grease they can spray cv grease on the discs and cause imtermittent poor braking!

 

[biojo]

do u mean wen they are from cold as in the first stop yer car comes to?

 

[gupdogz182]

Yes, from cold, after I've used the brakes a few times, they get good and never get poor again (on the same run)

 

[gupdogz182]

I'll check that, cheers.

 

[Tomlordington]

I had i similar problem with mine, good thing to check is the servo vacume pipe. As they can collapse on themselves due to the heat from the exhaust manafold thus stopping the vacume to the servo. It goes into the back right hand side of the inlet manafold.

 

[shaun442k]

It's also worth checking that your caliper slider pins aren't seized/sticking as this will cause poor braking.

 

[bozothenutter]

guy from EVO had something like this, turned out to be air in the ABS system