Timo. 0 Posted December 5, 2004 The brakes on my Polo are utter crap!!! Firstly there's a lot of travel in the pedal before anything substantial happens but as it reaches the end of its travel, they come in strong. This only happens if you depress the brake pedal slowly! If you're travelling along and stamp on the brakes they work quite well. Alot less travel and come in strong quickly! I've bleed the fronts (cant bleed the drums at the back cos I snapped one bleed screw off and the other is seized! :roll: ), also change the front pads. I'm guessing there must still be air in the system. Oh, I've checked the operation of the brake servo (according to haynes) and its fine. Anyone got any suggestions? air in the rear part of the system? cheers T. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Henny 0 Posted December 5, 2004 how old is the polo? I know the older ones didn't have a servo, so their brakes were utter pants... :| The rest of the polos suffer from small brake syndrome... they're crap when new, and just get worse with age! :| :crazyeyes: Decent disks and pads will help, change the rear cylinders (about £6 each including new nipples IIRC! :lol: ) and see if that makes much difference... 8) Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Timo. 0 Posted December 5, 2004 13 year old. rear cylinders? is that like the whole drums or something else? Ta Timo. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Timo. 0 Posted December 5, 2004 Just found what you mean. Cheers Henny. I'll need to get them ordered when I get a chance. Bet they're a pig to change!? Good old russian site saves the day again, why VW cant do that in this country is anyones guess! http://www.elcats.ru T. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
stevemac 0 Posted December 5, 2004 I nearly killed myself in one of those a few years ago - it was an F reg & the brakes were a total waste of time. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Timo. 0 Posted December 5, 2004 MMmmm........ maybe it would be worth some kind of upgrade perhaps. :twisted: T. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Supercharged 2 Posted December 5, 2004 I nearly killed myself in one of those a few years ago - it was an F reg & the brakes were a total waste of time. That would have had a servo, my mate had an old Y reg - that really was terrifying, he used the engine to brake more than the brakes themselves... Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
stevemac 0 Posted December 5, 2004 The "servo" was the size of an ashtray though... :( Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
h100vw 0 Posted December 5, 2004 I have always thought anyone driving a G40 must be pretty special, considering the poor brakes. Having done 130 thru Warrington in Jabbsports Polo. I decided never to go in one again. :shock: Maybe you can get a mk1 Golf servo in there with a 16V MK2 master cylinder? Gavin Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Timo. 0 Posted December 19, 2004 Replaced the rear cylinders and the brakes are now brilliant so I'm well chuffed and no have full confidence in going around at a half decent speed now. There was alot of air in the system in the rear pipes so needless to say the brake pedal no longer hits the floor before anything happens. Thanks for all the help.....again! :mrgreen: T. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
woody 0 Posted December 20, 2004 I changed my girlfriends Polo front brakes to some from GPC. The disks were changed to Brembo's and much better pads. It made so much difference to the breaking. Much more solid!!! Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
