Brake juddering and failure.
1. Sometimes (occasionally) when pressing brake pedal to the floor it will judder slightly and lose any tension and all braking power, immediately requiring a second (hopefully successful) pump to brake properly.
2. This happened twice, went in for full service- brake fluid changed. No obvious problems.
3. Had forgotten it was due for MOT, forced to go to different garage- failed for BRAKE JUDDERING. Made sense to me due to previous problem, but their solution was new discs (and pads)- which only one month earlier had been fine on service. Then told that front left caliper needed replacing soon, but not crucial for MOT.
4. Brakes now very very squeaky and suffered same breaking failures as before. Took car back to servicing garage to tackle problem and address calipers. - Answer- calipers were in fact fine (had done temperature test on disc) and squeaking was due to very cheap brake pads from MOT fitted at garage that replaced discs (that were probably fine). Replaced brake fluid, checked system- thought it should be fine.
5. Brakes still fail on occasion. Going to take to specialist Suzuki Garage- to see if this is a commonish/unique problem that is specific to Suzuki braking system.
However before I get told I need new pads, calipers, dics, flexible hoses etc. etc. and charged a fortune only for the brakes to fail again on the drive home- can anyone assist me on this problem?
Summary:
Front brakes that occasionally judder and fail. Would this be calipers or hoses, or something completely different?
Going by your description I think it could be something different, I would have the brake master cylinder checked, if you are suffering brake failure and shuddering it sounds like your callipers arent getting equal pressure when you apply the brakes. Or a freat lack of pressure to suffer brake failure. I hope this helps.
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