Rover 75 Diesel. Brake-ing Bad

[Split_Pin 12596]

Went out to the car at lunch time, checked the pipe from vac pump to the servo together with all 4 flexible hoses for hernias, of course 'nothing obvious'.

And when I was under the back of the car I noticed this:

Well fuck.

 

[Split_Pin 12596]

Just looked at the service history. The exhaust was new in October 2017, helpfully just out of warranty.

Once I get the braking mystery solved I may look at a new exhaust.

I'm going to start by bleeding the 2 calipers I fitted again. Wondering if air in the system has pushed round to the pistons.

[Rod/b 2205]

2 hours ago, colino said:

It was probably the MOT that highlighted the issue:  For most it is the only time in the year that brakes are used in anger.  Don't condemn the m/c until you have checked out the vacuum pump.

Every days a school day. I’ve never had anything to do with diesel vehicles so i had no idea they ran vacuum pumps. 

[wuvvum 33134]

3 hours ago, Split_Pin said:

Went out to the car at lunch time, checked the pipe from vac pump to the servo together with all 4 flexible hoses for hernias, of course 'nothing obvious'.

And when I was under the back of the car I noticed this:

Well fuck.

 

My back box did that.  By then the join on the inlet side was also pretty flaky, so I fitted a new rear half of the exhaust - not too bad a job as exhausts go.

[OM646 123]

On 17/01/2021 at 16:24, Split_Pin said:

Consoled myself by fitting the symphony radio in place of the horrible project drive item.

Original

MK1 Symphony

There is some repositioning of the wires required to make the volume control on the steering wheel work, but it functions perfectly as is for now.

Also saved myself £18 on a radio code by just firing it in and seeing what happened. I was all ready to buy a code too!

 

 

Facelift 75 with pre-PD items is something amazing

[Split_Pin 12596]

It's also got a nice PPD grey carpet in it which the previous owner fitted. It's lovely quality.

I'm afraid I won't be driving this again any time soon though until I get to the bottom of why the brakes momentarily lost pressure. As it stands my schedule is work, dark outside and rain or ice so I have little chance. I'm going to use the Audi for the time being and worry about the 75 some other day.

I've seen a nice Phaeton within the boundary walls of my prison area, sorry, local authority area and it's quite cheap.....

[Tickman 6888]

19 minutes ago, Split_Pin said:

I've seen a nice Phaeton within the boundary walls of my prison area, sorry, local authority area and it's quite cheap.....

Just the price of entry I think

[Split_Pin 12596]

I couldn't put that into words in my head but those were indeed my thoughts!

My work have changed my pay date to month end so the very long month since mid December will mean I have a wee bit of pocket money.

The sensible thing to do would be to replace the Mini.

..and get another 172 for myself....

[Tickman 6888]

Certainly the sensible* thing to do

[big_al_granvia 1110]

just buy a volvo mate, the majority of the scotoshite crew cant be wrong

[Split_Pin 12596]

I do quite fancy an S60. 

[big_al_granvia 1110]

https://www.gumtree.com/p/volvo/automatic-volvo-s60-2004-petrol-5dr-full-year-mot-excellent-condition/1395079192

in denny https://www.gumtree.com/p/volvo/volvo-s60-diesel-d5-auto/1394819691

[Split_Pin 12596]

Saw that advertised a few weeks ago.

I do like them but I don't want to be like everyone else either.

[Split_Pin 12596]

Just been out in for a careful drive. Brakes seem fine, pretty sure it was that stuck caliper piston popping back out. Looks like the pad is touching the disk a wee bit more now.

BUT.

The radio I put in on Sunday is fucked. Works fine when the car is stationery but it all goes doo-lally once the car starts to move. The phone function tries to mute it and the radio is simultaneously fighting back. You can't turn it off until you pull up either.

Sensibly* I checked it was working before pushing it into place as you need a 'special Rover tool' to remove it again and I don't have one. So now I need one of those.

FUCK A DUCK MAN.

 

[Tam 965]

The radio is still in the blue one in my project/scrap corner if you want it. Not much chance of delivery at moment though 🙄

[OM646 123]

The radio might not be fucked after all.

 

Going through the 75 forums i found this

 

(Source: https://www.the75andztclub.co.uk/forum/showthread.php?t=247204 )

Edited 5 hours ago by OM646
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[wuvvum 33134]

It's odd, isn't it, how so many of the forum 75s have decided to start playing up at the same time...