Recently purchased 2001 model.Very poor braking effeciency on cold startup lasting less than 1 minute or 500 yards.Service centre changed a vacume hose with no improvement. Also rear left door will sometimes not open from outside but always open from inside.
V40 brakes - poor braking for a minute in morning.
Nov 24, 2004
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What do you want us to do about it?
How interesting.
don't know about the door, but a friend had a similar problem with brakes in his Audi.... Very weak for the first few minutes, but then seemed normal. Found out it was a vacuum leak in the hose from the brake booster to the intake manifold... guess it took a little while for the vacuum to build up enough to give good braking action. Suggest you have that part of the system checked.... if they replaced a hose, that might be the area, but perhaps they didn't do it right????
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