Author Topic: Car vibrates like mad when braking - rear right hand corner - need help asap  (Read 4904 times)

Offline MoMartin

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I have the thread locking stuff and there aren't any mk4s nearby in the scrap yards

Offline Bandit127

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I have the thread locking stuff and there aren't any mk4s nearby in the scrap yards
You are right there.

I live a few miles from Silverlake which is a huge breaker. They (I am guessing) have 300 cars being broken. Plenty of Fords, acres of Vauxhalls and French cars. A half dozen each Passats and Polos. Probably 10 Mk3s. And 1 Mk4. I was very surprised.

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Thats because Mk4's don't belong in a scrappy!
and I've had all my bolts off on the other side now to make sure they weren't loose too, and the other carrier bolt didn't take much to crack off, so i've now loctite'd all the bolts (a novice fitting mistake i know!) and i'm just going to buy the remaining bolts tomorrow, then i should be on my way  :smiley:

Also the knocking noise i heard the other day that i posted about seems to have stopped  :grin: so it looks like i had plenty of warning before failure  :rolleyes: though, it did sound like it was coming from the rear - passenger side corner, not the drivers side.

Also i thought i should add - i was wrong about what the bolt looked like too haha (excuse the ruler that looks like it belongs to a 5 year old, it was the only one i could find)
« Last Edit: 03 June 2014, 23:09 by MoMartin »

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TPS sell them seperaty.

Where all my moneys went.

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rubbish they don't sell them seperately, bought some recently from the dealers

30mm thread length from that pic then like I said  :wink:
« Last Edit: 04 June 2014, 17:33 by Wazzzer »


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According to my local dealers they only sell them with the carriers, I ended up going to a specialty bolt place in the end, which probably saved me an arm and a leg anyway  :smiley:

It's all fitted now too, so I should no longer have to fear my back brake falling off again :grin:

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I meant the dealers are lying not you :wink:


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Ha I realise that, unless the dealers are different by location, in which case he may be telling the truth