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hey guys wondering how many of you suffer from squeeky brakes!!!

o the days of squeeky brakes!
yep i doo and it comes from the ruddy rear drum breakes.
helps a bit running a hose through them.
jon

Rear drums, what are those?

*looks smug*

haha :¬P

Calâ„¢

CalvinGTI wrote:Rear drums, what are those?

*looks smug*

haha :¬P

Calâ„¢

lol

mine squeek from time to time, nothing major though! ah drum brakes....how 20th century!

come on guys its an 8v nah understand with the drums would be good to do a conversion but dont see the point at this time. Cheers for the advice for the pics i posted, i so want to show you lot what i done to the car seeing i got most of my advice from here!!!!!

take care lads and cheers for the help

i have disks all round (tdi) and just before i come to a standstill the brakes (seems to be from the rear) screech. it doesnt happen all the time though.

matty2767 wrote:i have disks all round (tdi) and just before i come to a standstill the brakes (seems to be from the rear) screech. it doesnt happen all the time though.

you see not just the drums!
jon

smug

it just really pissses me off got a nice looking car sounds meaty and when you apply the brakes sounds like a wimp....sqeeek!!!!!!

why??????

Dont worry goin through a phase.....its 2330 and i got to read up on dentures!!!!!

Yeah, if they squeek, give them a whelt with a lump of wood. If it really drives you nuts, get a fitting kit for the shoes, they contain anti-squeal shims. That will fix you up.

I cannot understand why they bother to fit drums on any car these days. It can't make economic sense, there is no way its cheaper. A disc is a single casting, simpler than a drum, and the caliper isn't anything beyond one for a drum. The rest is the same. So why they bother. I would have thought it cheaper to fit discs to all cars, that way you don't need to fart about designing new hubs and stuff.

Its like cassette players? What the hell are they doing fitting them to a car built after 2000? I haven't had a tape since 198x, in fact the same tape is probably still in since the day I bought a cd player! CD player, led, bit of plastic, motor and about 2pence worth of silicon. Cassette - pulleys, capstan wheels, pinch rollers, flywheels, solenoids, catches, latches, loads of crap that must cost more these days.

From now on, VW, we only want DISCS no tapes or drums!

is that rant over?

Don't get me started!

My brakes are still making that screeching sound.

I'm about to take it back to VW, had the car serviced not so long ago, yet the car has sooooooooo many problems!

Only today, the petrol filler lid wasn't opening!

Then yesterday, blasted thing. It was so cold, only the drivers door opened when i tried opening the doors. i put the key in the ignition, switched the car on, and it magically opened all the other doors, SOMEHOW by itself! Weird thing!

i wont go into the details but when i bought my car from new in 2001 there was a screeching coming from the rear back system when driving. that is - not when i was touching the brakes. 18 times into the garage and 2 of those on the back on the truck becuase the discs had stuck on and the fault, they think, was down to a faulty rear handbrake cable which was freezing on. some days i couldnt drive off the drive in the morning. i went through rear discs like there was no tomorrow.

in the end they admited it was a manufacturing defect and that is where the fun really starts if you get my drift

and it wasnt just 1 garage who couldnt find the fault. i went to 4 different vw dealers and none of them could find the fault for 3 yrs.

anyway enough said.

matt

I'm a big fan of taking it to the garage and telling them what the problem is. If they have to work it out for themselves its usually a waste of time. I have found when I take it in for a job they VW. Serves right for giving me a three year warranty! Suckers.