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Model specific boards => Golf mk6 => Topic started by: stanmoar on 23 January 2015, 18:16

Title: R32 brakes
Post by: stanmoar on 23 January 2015, 18:16

Evening folks, just had a set of R32 brakes fitted to my Mk6 GTD, great stopping power but the pedal is soft but if you come of then straight on the pedal it grips like nothing on earth!!

Is there a setting with vag com to eliminate the soft pedal initially or is that the way they are?

Cheers

Stan

Title: Re: R32 brakes
Post by: Rhyso on 23 January 2015, 18:49

Sounds like they need bleeding again

Title: Re: R32 brakes
Post by: Snoopy on 23 January 2015, 19:03

Needs bleeding again in sequence they can be a bit of a barstuard.

Title: Re: R32 brakes
Post by: stanmoar on 23 January 2015, 19:26

Sounds like it, would it be better to get VW to bleed them with a pressure system??

Title: Re: R32 brakes
Post by: andygo on 24 January 2015, 18:26

Don't the diesels use a different servo assist system as you don't get the same vacuum when you lift off as you do with a petrol engine? Every diesel golf I have driven, including my sons Mk6 GTD has a softer pedal.

Remember, you are asking the same size master cylinder to move a bigger brake caliper, so that may be part of the problem as well.

Another thing to try is just lightly tap the pedal, almost as if you were flashing the brake lights and then immediately brake hard. I'm sure its something to do with brake assist, but if I do that on my gti, the pedal always feels firmer.

On the other hand, I could be talking out of my backside, it has been known.. (well apart from the last para, that deffo works!)