Long Brake Pedal after track day

[RichB]

Hi Guys

Had two 30min sessions today at silverstone. Now the brake pedal is nearly on the floor before anything happens.

Is this likely to be boiled fluid cant see any scoring etc to the discs? The car has relatively new front brembo HC discs and pads (about 4-6k ago) and ATE superblue around similar time.

 

[Tony Hunter]

Do you have braided lines, but yes, you could have boiled the fluid, worn the pads down etc.

 

[RichB]

Standard lines, I'll order some motul stuff (easy to confirm changed fluid then!) and check pads at the time

 

[RichB]

Bought some motul RBF 660 (only 500ml though stupidly!) bled the calipers but still a long pedal. Took the pads out and found this!

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Disc looks ok though!

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Going to order 2 more bottles of RBF 660 and some carbon lorraine RC5+ pads to fit next weekend

 

[M.C..]

I assume the pads are just standard road pads?
I had the same problem when I did my first trackday in my Megane, thought I had boiled the fluid so got that changed and it was still the same so changed the pads and it was back to normal.

 

[RichB]

Yeah just OEM replacement brembo pads.

The fluid looked ok that was flushed (does ATE superblue change colour when its knackered?) but ill flush it all anyway just to be sure as it had been in there for 2 years anyway.