wahoo brakes appear to be fixed!

[Guy]

im sure some of you have seen various posts about my brakes being very poor.

they were amazing when i got the car (14months old) then gradually got worse until i nearly overshot a junction.
so fitted some ds2500 pads and left the discs, was ok for a short while but then got very poor.

renault said they were fine, took it to GDI and he said something is definately up, but couldnt quite put the finger on it as the brake pedal felt fine, they bit fine, but then there wasnt much else after the inital bite.. wouldnt even lock up on wet roads.
bought some discs and pads (standard) while i was down there, fitted them and they seem all back to normal now

driving tonight, 5degrees outside, road was dry, could stamp my foot to the floor and nearly be thrown out the seat and it would lock up.


now just need the engine mount problem and tapping on idle sorting. lol oh and a 24k service

 

[Justin182]

Glad you got it sorted mate... its been a long journey. I think i'm in the same boat. Got some ds2500's and were better but something still wrong so also bought some ATE discs of my local euro car parts and the really very good now. Looks like the dics change made a good difference. Faith has been restored !!!

 

[Guy]

think maybe something had got into my ds2500's and contaminated them?
they squeeked anyway which pissed me off so im just staying with standard pads.

maybe if i had just changed the discs when i fitted the ds2500's none of this would have happened?? god knows.. anyway.. happy with the standard bits for now, f**k the squeeky ds2500's.. lol

see this for pics of my discs..

http://www.cliosport.net/forum/showthread.php?t=122159&highlight=fao

 

[Justin182]

Yeah.. my discs were a state. The ds2500's are good but now that i think i have found the problem... going back to standard is not a problem. Dont track... but did once get serious fade so maybe not lol.

 

[BenR]

from the looks of it, it looks as if the pad wasnt sitting on straight and dragging on half the disc, overheating (blackening) one side and not dispersing piston load properly.

 

[dick]

ye looks like the caliper mite be sticking or summat?

 

[Guy]

from the looks of it, it looks as if the pad wasnt sitting on straight and dragging on half the disc, overheating (blackening) one side and not dispersing piston load properly.

cheers ben..
the only thing thats really confusing me.. it was only black on the passenger side disc though, and it never pulled to one side when braking which i thought it would have.. the drivers side disc appeared to be ok on the surface.. the lip was a it broken up and knackered though but the ds2500's grind against this lip as they have a bigger contact area than standard..

 

[Andy GDI]

from the looks of it, it looks as if the pad wasnt sitting on straight and dragging on half the disc, overheating (blackening) one side and not dispersing piston load properly.

agreed

its always the inside of the disc that cops it on these cars.....

a good note to mention....... even if the disc looks good from outside....

LOOK INSIDE.

 

[David_Snaresbrook]

Glad to see you got them sorted at last. I can only imagine it is/was a caliper problem, as my discs and pads were on their last legs, and i mean last legs, as the pads fell apart when i took them off. But even then they still would lock the wheels if applied hard enough.

With new pads and discs, its like a different car.