Help - Brake complicated problem

[Kneale Brownson]

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Sure sounds like a brake master cylinder probably was your problem from the
start.  Those other parts may/may not have been marginal, but if you
replace the MC, at least almost all of the system will be in "new" condition.

At 12:54 AM 09/25/2002 +0200, susana martinez wrote:



>Hello guys
>Got a '89 200 Turbo and when I'm driving about 30 to 50 miles I got this
>problem: My steering wheel begins shaking badly, at the same time brake
>pedal gets stiff, later pedal begins to go to floor and at the end you have
>no brakes, the car starts braking itself. You let it getI took it to a shop
>(an expensive import service) and got out with a $1400 bill, a new brake
>accumulator,hoses and pentosin (according to them it was a leaking problem),
>but I never saw any loss of fluid not even when the car had no brakes. I
>pay, take the car out of the shop and I got exactly the same problem 30
>miles after. The guy in the shop says that the solution now must be that the
>front calipers are sticking ,the brake fluid boils and that the car needs
>both front calipers (girling, double piston). I check other shop and the guy
>says there may be the calipers but that he's never heard of the two calipers
>going wrong at the same time, and that the stiff pedal story does not match
>with a caliper failure. He suspects a brake master cylinder instead.
>Sorry for writing such long mail but I'd appreciate if anyone has ever heard
>of something like this before.
>Ceci Cerdan
>Kentucky
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