Volvo Owners Club Forum - View Single Post - 240 soft brakes

Nicholas Lewin · Oct 28th, 2018, 10:12

In brief...

I spent about 4 hours with my new best friend for ever garage (as u put it Mr R), bleeding, road testing and looking at the M/C and servo so I was actively involved in what was going on - deliberately

I think that me going back to previous garages and saying that the brakes are too soft with too much travel has resulted in any amount of adjustment and fiddling to resolve the problem - so much so that all factory settings have been long-since overridden

I am putting some miles on the old girl and the brakes have quite a bit of travel and are quite noisy - especially once warm. I will persevere and maybe when the annual service/MOT are done in January, I may replace discs/pads with OEM kit to eliminate the noise. At the same time, we will readjust the servo operating pin to take up some of the initial brake pedal movement, but not so much as to be always pushing on the back of the M/C

The bleeding has, I think been a red-herring. What I need to see is what the brakes are like after a few 100/1000 miles...

Oct 28th, 2018, 10:12	#26
Nicholas Lewin newish member Last Online: Nov 7th, 2020 23:35 Join Date: Jan 2016 Location: London	In brief... I spent about 4 hours with my new best friend for ever garage (as u put it Mr R), bleeding, road testing and looking at the M/C and servo so I was actively involved in what was going on - deliberately I think that me going back to previous garages and saying that the brakes are too soft with too much travel has resulted in any amount of adjustment and fiddling to resolve the problem - so much so that all factory settings have been long-since overridden I am putting some miles on the old girl and the brakes have quite a bit of travel and are quite noisy - especially once warm. I will persevere and maybe when the annual service/MOT are done in January, I may replace discs/pads with OEM kit to eliminate the noise. At the same time, we will readjust the servo operating pin to take up some of the initial brake pedal movement, but not so much as to be always pushing on the back of the M/C The bleeding has, I think been a red-herring. What I need to see is what the brakes are like after a few 100/1000 miles...