Cooked brakes, how do I sort it out?

[martziniuk]

Ben is not a tuner, Mikka is the tuner AFAIK.

[PDT]

I would want to know how a professional tuner has managed to cook your brakes whilst logging  I cant see why they would even need to touch the brakes. 

Its common, on the tuning forums (the hidden forums that tuners use)  its something that gets mentioned a lot by guys that datalog and test mapping out on the road. It is always caused by the tuner trying to datalog a car in 4th gear (so breaking speed limits and usully driving dangerously) and then coming up behind traffic and having to slam the brakes on, this will happen repeatidly for each run that you datalog. Its also good practice to run the car through 5th gear as well to peak RPM to check for any issues under high load, the speeds reached will be a bit 

A very well known tuner died a few years back while datalogging a car on the road, its virtually impossible for tuners to get a motor traders insurance policy that will cover them while they are tuning/mapping on the road. My advice when anyone gives their car to a tuner to drive on the road to test or tune is to ask for written proof that these practices are covered by their policy.

Nearly all motor taders policies will have indemnity cover, so if any damage is caused while the car is in their possesion (such as cooked brakes)  then they should be insured to cover the costs.

[rich83]

Is it not possible to use a loaded dyno to the same effect as road logging?

[heavyd]

It certainly is, but they only just bought a dyno

[rich83]

Are you sure he hasnt just stepped off noahs arc? 

[heavyd]

They're well established on briskoda, they have the monopoly on there. Map would have been right the first time, but the dsg limited the power, guess there aren't many skodas get mapped with dsg boxes!

[Janner_Sy]

Just to play devils advocate a little, theres always a possibility the master cylinder was on the way out though and the road logging tipped it over the edge.  ive personally never heard of a master cylinder failing.  My octavia vRS was logged over a period of about 6 hours, and they had my fabia vRS for 2 weeks doing development getting it how i wanted as well so they would have both had that treatment, maybe more, who knows, and my brakes were 100% fine after for both of them. Initially thought it could be the extra power of the car, but thinking about it, it wont make difference either, as the 4th gear ratio in the GTI /ED30 is the same as the vRS, so terminal speed in 4th would be the same when the brakes are applied, its just you would hit that terminal speed faster.

On the plus side you wouldnt have R32 brakes if this hadnt happened

Think their new dyno is in the process of being installed now, so maybe no more heavy road logging, just a few tweaking runs on the road after.

[malamute]