Scary Brakes

[Leeshez]

Right my car is booked in tommorow for rough idling and missing firing and popping on warm up. Any way on my way home from work i thought i would take the motorway as a diffrent way home, so i gets on the motorway and start to over take my mate at about 75ish in 5th gear and it started to missfire. So i put it in 4th and floored it to 90ish for a few secs. I carried along at 70 - 75 till my junction, when i was going down the slip road i pressed the brakes and nothing happend, so i pressed harder and harder untill i thought the car was about to lock out but nothing, luckly it seem to stop about a foot over the line. There ok now but has anyone else had this?Sorry about the essay. Lee

 

[Darren S]

I think a few people have said something similar, m8. Thats friggin scary... And if youve been on the motorway like you say, the brakes should be nice and cool - not over-cooked and useless....

D.

 

[Lunner]

New build quality, or lack of it, never get these problems with a mk1 clio

 

[Adam]

how strange........hope it doesnt happen to me...lol

 

[edde]

You brakes may have some air in them Id seriously recomend fully bleeding the brakes.

 

[mxfuk]

I had this problem, turned out to be a sticky caliper. I took it in moaning, checked it out for about an hour while I waited and then refused to give me back the car as it was deemed dangerous! They replaced it under warranty.

 

[Leeshez]

Thanks for that folks im going to ask them to look at it.