corsajay88
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Registered: 22nd Aug 11
Location: Upton, Cheshire
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As above corsa failed mot on front brake imbalance. It has v6 brakes on. Anyone know the cause and a fix for this. The discs are pretty new and pads in good condition
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Christopher
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Registered: 14th Oct 10
Location: Eastbourne
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Think i had this on mine! Think its becase theres a spring that you use to adjust the amount of pressure sent to the front and rears and when i lowered mine it stretched the spring so it was basically only breaking on the front! Not sure though bud!
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andy_mk3
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Registered: 18th Dec 11
Location: Peterborough
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Strip brakes down, clean up all the contect areas where the pad sits, clean the caliper slides, make sure the caliper piston moves back nicely. And put it all back with some copper grease and bleeding the brakes wouldn't hurt either.
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corsajay88
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Registered: 22nd Aug 11
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Think it an imbalance between front left and right rather than front and back thanks anyway
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corsajay88
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quote:
Originally posted by andy_mk3
Strip brakes down, clean up all the contect areas where the pad sits, clean the caliper slides, make sure the caliper piston moves back nicely. And put it all back with some copper grease and bleeding the brakes wouldn't hurt either.
This is what I was planning to do one of the discs does look dirty compared to the other one. Thanks hopefully this will fix it. Not to bad really was dreading the mot
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IvIarkgraham
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Registered: 27th Mar 04
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if the discs look different then its a major problem.
have you not noticed it pulling in one direction when braking?
strip down calipers and rebuild, or replace them with ready refurbed units.
there is places that will take your old ones in exchange if you want to cut the cost 
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corsajay88
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Registered: 22nd Aug 11
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it doesn't pull to one side when braking and the discs don't look unevenly worn.
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corsajay88
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Sorted bled them and its passed. Brake force on the mot sheet has gone up by a lot. Brales feel a hundred times better. The last 4 milage proved its a genuine 57k which I'm happy about
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