Brake pads sticking - very scary experience

[Tezza33]

Servicing and preventive maintenance could have saved a lot of problems

Not with a flexible brake pipe it wouldn't, most flexible pipes are changed when they show signs of cracking usually at the MOT, there is no way to tell if they are deteriorating inside and if they were not cracking at the last MOT they wouldn't even be mentioned as an advisory so there is no way you would know

 

[slowpace]

yes i agreed
but as we all know it can stilll happen

so the next time you break down and i stop to help you (isay did you maintenance it you says yes ) i say well it should not have not broken down
BUT IT does happen

as i know full well on a new car £ 550

this is NOT a ARgument it happens

dont take it the wrong way

 

[Neckender]

I would have done exactly what WVW has done other than buy the baccy as I don't smoke, but joking aside, a few years ago I owned a Citroen c25 deisel van which was part converted to camper, I was going around a roundabout when a young man in a car drove straight on the roundabout and hit my Citroen at speed on the near front side. he totally wrote his car off and did major damage to my vans steering and suspension, the police officers who arived on the scene phoned for a breadown truck to remove the car, saw the damage to my van and they told me as I only lived approx 1 mile from the accident to drive my van home carfully and it would be ok. This was with defective stearing bent suspension and the front wing and bonnet caved in, the van was written off by the insurance company.
So surely if the police told me to drive my badly damaged van home carefully wouldn't most people do what WVW did :drive:.

John.

 

[witzend]

Not with a flexible brake pipe it wouldn't, most flexible pipes are changed when they show signs of cracking usually at the MOT, there is no way to tell if they are deteriorating inside and if they were not cracking at the last MOT they wouldn't even be mentioned as an advisory so there is no way you would know

Flexi hose hasn't been confirmed perhaps you don't agree that servicing is important

 

[Tezza33]

Flexi hose hasn't been confirmed perhaps you don't agree that servicing is important

I am a retired mechanic so of course I think servicing is important but I don't judge others on what my actions would be and if money is tight I understand it when somebody doesn't, I merely pointed out it would not have shown up in a service because it is a visual inspection only, I actually doubt it is the brake pipe personally, I would have suspected the caliper was sticking slightly (which would have been picked up on a service) and as it gradually got hotter it stuck because of metal expansion,