01 Clio Brakes

L-M

Pick ye're brains.

A 01 Clio and the brakes were sticking on it. As the car warmed up they got worse.

Took off the calipers and cleaned them and no joys.

Bought two new (secondhand calipers) fitted them and bleed them, drove it down the road and back up and the same problem.

The only thing i can thing of is the flexy pipe is blocked, and when i took the calipers off, no fluid came out, but, if you press the pedal some squirted out.

Any ideas?

jimmyw

A test you can do is when they stick, open the bleed screw and if it then releases, its the pipes.Its a classic test .

L-M

jimmyw wrote: »

A test you can do is when they stick, open the bleed screw and if it then releases, its the pipes.Its a classic test .

How do you mean?

Open it and if fluid comes out?

jimmyw

No the pads should release when you open the nipple.Thats the usual way of checking if the pipes are swelling up and not allowing the fluid to return back after you take your foot off the pedal and so the pads stick.

Well they might some fluid come out too.