Post by veeruk on Mar 1, 2010 8:22:13 GMT
That sounds very much like how it was done in Belgium when I used to live there. It's all a bit like a factory that works in line and at the end you hear if it failed or passed. We have a 1996 106 diesel. I changed the rear brakes on it this summer and when it went for it's MOT it had a red mark against them as they were pretty "weak". I can only think of proper adjustment. They probably will have to be very tightly adjusted against the drum to make them efficient. I changed front pads and discs a few years ago (as I do with every car that we buy) and when you had to make an emergency stop it did not respond very well. Pedal to the floor but took it's time to stop. I removed the pads last summer and refitted it all taking special care to fit the "clips" the right way and it breaks so much better now. I think that the brakes on these models were a bit crap unlike the 205 GTi's that we have. The 106 never failed on the brakes though, could be that the rules here are different than in Ireland.
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