Definitely as the days go on im confident in saying you are probably the best RU-vid tutorial mechanic on here, im a mechanic for decades lol, but love watching your show, keep up the fantastic work!
We had a 2008 audi a4 years ago . The car only had 55000 miles on it customer complaints brake gone spongy after 100 miles drives . . Any time we check the car drive for 20 minutes be perfect it needed that long drive to heat the brakes up . Water was boiling in brake lines causes brakes to go after long drivers . I all ways noticed when changing brake fluid all the dirty crap is close to the calipers bleed nipple you can actually see the white water streek in the fluid if you look closely
Good tip i got taught with those anti drag clips pushing the pads out whilst fitting caliper is to fit the caliper with the top slider bolt only and have caliper swung up out the way, that way you can fit the clips and then hold the pads with one hand and just swing the caliper down and fit the bottom slider bolt, much easier than trying to lift it on and line it up. Great video as always Baz 😎
Putting some new brake fluid every two/three years will save a lot of money for the customer in the future. It’s nice to have some time to do the things that make a change, definitely a lot of difference between dealer and universal garage. (My opinion)
Good point on brake fluid,as a retired mechanic i saw alot of knackered brake fluid.even dot three and four are hygroscopic and will absorb moisture and reduce its boiling point ,should be checked and replaced regularly. Love your videos especially when im sat up in bed.
Spot on with getting rid of that contaminated fluid from the calipers. Then, when pumping the brake peddle, use short strokes. The only thing i would have done differently is slacken off the handbrake before adjusting the rear shoes. But then again if you have been servicing this vehicle in the past you obviously know if it needed that done. I thought the shoes were a bit worn too. And avoid that brake dust. You are a top mechanic and i love watching your channel.
I had one slide that stuck once i had to get the casting really hot. Done this numerous times on many other vehicles but this one must have had a serious amount of air pressure in it behind the pin. The casting blew a hole in it and shot off a piece of metal about the size of a peanut at about a million mph past my right lug hole. Thought i was dead for a minute! 😂
My only argument for not opening bleed nipple when doing pads is, where I live the rust is insane, 50/50 if the bleed nipple comes out and added risk that customers don't tend to want. Granted I Have only snapped a few in my time. Wish I could do it though like you say hardly anyone gets a brake fluid change
Had a customers merc van in yesterday. He'd paid for new handbrake cables, full brake service 2 months ago, somewhere else. His van failed the test earlier in the week, on brakes & a broken road spring. His handbrake was at 5% efficiency. Fail.. That roadspring looked to have been broken for months, to me. Anyway, went through the brakes - handbrake adjuster was seized solid & had been for yonks, he'd no new cables anywhere & no way could you miss the broken spring if you so much as took the wheel off, let alone serviced the brakes. Front discs were in bits & the pads were no better. I.E he'd paid for nothing to be touched. SMH. That's nothing new to me either, I see it all the time & worse. I fixed it.
@@bazmeredith Every day. Woman came in with an Astra today, told me she'd had it looked at somewhere else & they'd told her the clutch was gone, quoted her for a clutch. 800 quid. I kinda wondered, 'cos it drove in just fine.... She goes "You fit a clutch J.." Hmm.. Took it for a drive, drove nice, chucked it on the lift - knackered, leaking waterpump. Fitted a new waterpump, did the coolant, gave it back. 120 quid. They'd have done the same, but took the 800. No wonder people are scoby dealing with garages.
@@oliverlanchester2632 I'm "untrained" - if you get me to work on your car, you're one of the lucky ones. I have ethics - Ethics can't be taught. You're either ethical or you aren't.
Yo Baz, Wanted to ask ya about the way you push back caliper pistons for brake work, I’m an apprentice and have been taught that just pushing the piston back is always ok, I seen you clamp off a hose and push the piston back with bleeder open, can you explain a tad more in -depth the next time you do it why it’s better your way? You clearly take great pride in your work and I’d like to try and learn as much from ya as I can, even if that means doing it a different way than I’m being instructed. 👍
By just pushing the fluid back to the master cylinder you run the risk of flipping a seal in the master cylinder,it doesn't happen often but is not unheard of.
