Been a bit pee-peed off with the Mk5...
So I finally managed to rebuild my powder coated rear calipers.
I moaned before about the what the company did - I wont be using again did by not blocking up openings/threads - the bores had been blasted and rough, so these needed honing. The threads for the brake line and bleed were also messed up - they were very close to being scrap.
I for-shadowed myself - I now have 2x Gloss black paperweights!
Looming MOT, Known issues:
Slice in NSF tyre - replaced front tyres for PS4 - now have them all round, very impressed, a lot stiffer than the rainsports.
Sticking Rear offside caliper - luckily I have replacements to hand.... or so I thought.
Swapped out carriers and calipers and got this great result:
But when it came to bleeding the fluid just pissed out of the piston....better still, due to breeze and the angle of drive & jacked-up rear...I left the brake fluid can on top of the engine, the bonnet closed and I now have a dent pushing out that is very noticeable - Feck!
So the plan was re-install the good nearside caliper and find a reconditioned genuine caliper for the off side.
The received item had new piston and dust seal, but the hand brake arm seal is old and painted over:
All installed hopefully won't need to revisit brakes till warmer weather returns, I can replace the split seal with one from the paperweights.
On a positive - Work sent me to Berlin last week, suspect Hertz were low on cars - after cryptic questions such as "can you drive an automatic?" and "ever driven an electric car?" the ladies at Hertz were very generous and gave me this to drive for 2.5 days:
It took me 3 minutes to work out how to unlock the door with the credit card, and maybe another 8 minutes to get the thing to drive!
Thankfully, despite being in German the sat nav was good and got me to site.
Some you-tubing and I changed the language to English and learnt how to switch on the cruise - but couldn't get auto-pilot to work
Driving in Germany was ace! - Roads all billiard table smooth tarmac...on the autobahn, everyone in general was well behaved, very little lane hogging, and so many trucks all in the slow lane all doing the same speed, leaving 2 lanes clear
I just makes coming back to UK a real shock
