My Scirocco passed it's mot a few weeks ago with just an advisory on the front dampers. Thought fair enough and as I didn't have the time or patience to do them myself I told them I'd bring it back and they could do them.
I've moved house nearer work so have no idea what garages are any good locally.
Anyway, fitted them and the car was back to handling how it should.
Was on the way home tonight via a trip to the shopping centre, off the M1 stopped at the lights, set off again in traffic, fxxx me brake pedal to the floor. Shit a stick so to speak...
Stopped well sort of round the corner in a factory entrance that I knew was there thankfully.
Brake fluid pissing all over inner arch of drivers side of car, all over tyre etc.
Took wheel off (how many notches on the air rachet sir - all the way, bastards nearly killed me getting those loose). Had to sacrifice my t-shirt as my tools etc are at home as per bloody usual so I could wipe some of the messy off to have a look. No bloody torch either.
Found out the rubber washer the brake line passes through was loose and hanging about so had rubbed on the wheel/brakedisc until it wore through resulting in a lack of fluid and a big stick in my pants. There's no way it came off on it's own as I had to bang it hard to get it back on and there's no reason for it to come off anyway on it's own.
AA towed me to the garage and I've left it blocking their shutter doors.
Do I throw a right strop with them in the morning ?? ;-)
If it had gone seconds earlier I'd have been tanking down the sliproad at 70 towards three lanes of queuing of traffic at the red lights...
Mark S.