Much better to get your car serviced at a well invested independent garage like this. Correct process followed and cleaning the engine bay shows pride in your workmanship 👍
You certainly take pride in your work, how many garages would give the engine bay a spruce up,and I've never seen those plastic steering wheel protectors used before 👍
Thanks for the useful video. Another easy way to bleed brakes is to command the ABS pump; no other hardware needed besides a tube which fits the bleed nipple and a container to collect the old fluid. (I use Forscan on my Ford car).
Top job, allot of garages just suck some fluid out the reservoir and fill with new then charge the customer for a brake fluid change even though they have only replaced 1/3 of it. I always check the brake fluid with my Welzh Werkzeug 78101ww, great bit of kit
Ive always stood by the hand pump bleeders. Had mine a good while now and its brilliant. Would be nice having that one you have right enough since it has all the attachments
I got taught this at college 20 years ago. Told my boss and he didn't take any notice and said I was talking shit. 20 years later he never does brake fluid changes on cars. The man is an idiot and a bully stuck in the 1970s. Thank God I left that place. They don't even have any autodata. His view on tracking a car up is to just set it to somewhere near parallel. Only thing with break fluid changes is the bleed screws can snap on older stuff so you have to inform the customer they could need callipers.
Brake fluid change is easier than changing the oil. I use a pressure bleeder and I can change the fluid in about 15 minutes. Don’t know why people shy away from doing it when maintaining their car. And I can agree with Baz that the old brake fluid gets very dirty, even in a sealed system.
Hi Bazza. another great video, and i will be doing both my Freelander 2 brake fluid in the next month, I'm going to have a go myself, as you say using the one bleed kit, for a DIY person, or i could leave it and when i visit my daughter in Wales get it booked into your place hoping you do the job 🙂 with your machine.
Bazarooney, interestingly the AllData states that the ALL the bleed nipples are left open during the procedure! I believe that if you carry out this and the manufacturer’s procedure they are asking you to have catchment devices at each wheel then?! That would also explain why they state starting at the front rather than furthest from the reservoir! Thoughts buddy?
Brake fluide absorbs mosture,and mosture causes rust inside the brake calliper pistol,resulting in the seized piston,but now a days most of the cars come with aluminium calipers amd piston,and thus piston jamming is very rare now a days,apart from cars made in 2000-2009😅
In addition to this, water compresses easier than the brake fluid and boils at a lower temp than brake fluid and this causes a spongy brake pedal, inefficiency in the system,, this changing it after 2-3 years restores your system to full efficiency.
Piston rust is from poor boot seal as it wiil be past the internal seal not behind where the brake fluid is. Ally calipers most have steal piston will do the same if water gets past the piston boot .
Dirt is not the problem, brake fluid is highly hygroscopic (loves to absorb water) so it takes humidity out of the air which dissolves in the fluid, making it corrosive. This can end up ruining the ABS unit or siezing the brake cylinders. This is why it needs to be done regularly. If you don’t believe me just put half a glass of brake fluid on a shelf on your kitchen. After a month it will probably be full.
@ the system is not sealed, if it were it could not work. In order for fluid to travel down to the brakes (and extra fluid is required as the brake pads wear) the filler cap on the reservoir has a tiny breather hole open to the air. If this is blocked the brakes cannot work. Some reservoirs (particularly in desert countries) have a closed rubber “concertina” under the filler cap, which expands and contracts to allow the fluid to flow down to the brakes (but which prevent dust and moisture getting in) but this is rare. Motorbikes and pedal bikes use this system so the fluid does not spill when the bike falls over but it is rare in cars. Even with this fitted opening up the cap to check the fluid level allows humid air to contact the highly hygroscopic fluid.
You can buy a device for measuring any water content in brake fluid. Various lights show the percentage of moisture. Mine was creeping up so took it to a garage for a change. But the fluid never looked like the stuff in that car.
great video why is it so dirty after 2x years ,I have a tester that I use to test the fluid but been thinking of doing this for ages I have heard stories of insurance assesors check the fluid after a accident
Your right, but the fluid in the slave cylinder is not going to cause any safety problems or get anywhere near as hot. Personally I would do it, but you got to be aware of service costs for the customer. (most of them are playing you off against the next garage without any idea of the different standard of servicing)
Another main reason when absorbing moisture from the air. It can corrode pipes inside out. Damaged abs pumps from rust/corrosion due to the moisture. And to be honest whats 100 quid or how much they charge for a brake fluid change compared to 1000 of pounds for abs pumps
Ford main dealer charged £30 in march for my fluid change on a 2016 2.0 tdci mondeo, old fluid was filthy, was a huge difference in pedal feel after...
Hi baz, im dubious about the brake fluid change as several times its been listed as done but cant see anything disturbed on the calipers. Whats the charge for doing it
30psi, damn, i do this with pressurised water pump, but only go to around 11psi, dont want to cause any unnecessary damage to hoses,, just takes a couple of minutes longer to bleed(flush) each point. Why they say tyre pressure level is good for doing this id never know. Special tools😅 they really dont want you doing things ya self these days do they....
We must be one of the rare ones Baz, we have always done fluid changes according to service intervals, have you a special spanner yo access the rear bleed valves on VW with electric handbrake wheels on
@bazmeredith 👍I do use it but it only looks good for a short while and the grease residue grabs more dirt quicker than a clean dry surface. I think there's a gap in the market for a product that can make short work of cleaning up the worst of dirty dusty neglected engine bays and good enough for a spring clean after working on someone's pride and joy. I'm from the era of being told to wipe things down with a oily rag and before plastic became all you can see when you look at a engine that was fine. I've seen the problems that occur when people think hot jet washing a engine bay is a quick and easy way to get it looking like new. When I service a car that's very dirty under the bonnet I've been blowing off what I can with a air line and using undiluted screen wash
@@MrMGZT no mate, theres more chance of doing that when you pump the pedal to the floor because the rod can go to far past the normal distance it travels
As I’m not a. Mechanic I have a fiat Scudo van in the Uk it’s 2005 plate I’ve owned it 5 years and never changed the brake fluid does it really make a difference is it just good practice to change it 😊
Brake fluid is hydroscopic (easily absorbs moisture) this can be a problem under prolonged heavy braking, the moisture can boil from the heat at the disc/calliper causing an air lock and brake fade or even failure. The moisture can also cause corrosion in the ABS pump and you don’t want to buy one of them !
On a slightly older car,,,,,,,,Say a 2012 ,,You would never see brake fluid this dirty after only 31k miles,,But thanks to the climate dumb dumbs who think wind farms and EV are zero emissions new cars must use dot 5.1 fluid which is kinder to the climate,,,,,,,Which it actually isn't,,,,,,Its ultra thin which means less lubricity for your ABS pump,,It will wear much faster,,And it's acidic ,,Which means the more moisture it absorbs,The quicker it will eat the brake lines ,,,Just like all these new ultra thin engine oils now,,It's not that new engines need these thin oils,,,Tolerances are exactly the same with brand new engines today as they were 15 years ago,,,They want you to use these thin oils because they cause less resistance with engine parts,,which means you get about 0.0001 MPG more,,It's more climate shite,,But the thinner oils wear out engine parts twice as fast,,Because you only get half the protection of a thicker oil,,
I've always been dubious about the need to change brake fluid but now I've seen how dirty it is after just 2 years you've made me realise i was wrong!
Much better to get your car serviced at a well invested independent garage like this.
Correct process followed and cleaning the engine bay shows pride in your workmanship 👍
Great to see you using wing covers. So many garages don’t bother.
You certainly take pride in your work, how many garages would give the engine bay a spruce up,and I've never seen those plastic steering wheel protectors used before 👍
Thanks for the useful video. Another easy way to bleed brakes is to command the ABS pump; no other hardware needed besides a tube which fits the bleed nipple and a container to collect the old fluid. (I use Forscan on my Ford car).
The forskin is great,,A bit of a handful tho,,
Baz great video and blog as usual you smashed it 💪
Top job, allot of garages just suck some fluid out the reservoir and fill with new then charge the customer for a brake fluid change even though they have only replaced 1/3 of it.
I always check the brake fluid with my Welzh Werkzeug 78101ww, great bit of kit
Ive always stood by the hand pump bleeders. Had mine a good while now and its brilliant. Would be nice having that one you have right enough since it has all the attachments
I got taught this at college 20 years ago. Told my boss and he didn't take any notice and said I was talking shit. 20 years later he never does brake fluid changes on cars. The man is an idiot and a bully stuck in the 1970s. Thank God I left that place. They don't even have any autodata. His view on tracking a car up is to just set it to somewhere near parallel. Only thing with break fluid changes is the bleed screws can snap on older stuff so you have to inform the customer they could need callipers.
Brake fluid change is easier than changing the oil. I use a pressure bleeder and I can change the fluid in about 15 minutes. Don’t know why people shy away from doing it when maintaining their car. And I can agree with Baz that the old brake fluid gets very dirty, even in a sealed system.
I think my brake fluid is still the first since 2017 but it does not nearly look this bad. Still nice yellow.
Also has less than 2% water in it.
Hi Bazza. another great video, and i will be doing both my Freelander 2 brake fluid in the next month, I'm going to have a go myself, as you say using the one bleed kit, for a DIY person, or i could leave it and when i visit my daughter in Wales get it booked into your place hoping you do the job 🙂 with your machine.
Vag cars can be very picky about maintenance. I'd always change the fluid om time.
Bazarooney, interestingly the AllData states that the ALL the bleed nipples are left open during the procedure! I believe that if you carry out this and the manufacturer’s procedure they are asking you to have catchment devices at each wheel then?! That would also explain why they state starting at the front rather than furthest from the reservoir! Thoughts buddy?
Brake fluide absorbs mosture,and mosture causes rust inside the brake calliper pistol,resulting in the seized piston,but now a days most of the cars come with aluminium calipers amd piston,and thus piston jamming is very rare now a days,apart from cars made in 2000-2009😅
In addition to this, water compresses easier than the brake fluid and boils at a lower temp than brake fluid and this causes a spongy brake pedal, inefficiency in the system,, this changing it after 2-3 years restores your system to full efficiency.
Piston rust is from poor boot seal as it wiil be past the internal seal not behind where the brake fluid is. Ally calipers most have steal piston will do the same if water gets past the piston boot .
great job lad as always keep up the great work
Dirt is not the problem, brake fluid is highly hygroscopic (loves to absorb water) so it takes humidity out of the air which dissolves in the fluid, making it corrosive. This can end up ruining the ABS unit or siezing the brake cylinders. This is why it needs to be done regularly. If you don’t believe me just put half a glass of brake fluid on a shelf on your kitchen. After a month it will probably be full.
But thhe system is sealed not open to the air.
@ the system is not sealed, if it were it could not work. In order for fluid to travel down to the brakes (and extra fluid is required as the brake pads wear) the filler cap on the reservoir has a tiny breather hole open to the air. If this is blocked the brakes cannot work. Some reservoirs (particularly in desert countries) have a closed rubber “concertina” under the filler cap, which expands and contracts to allow the fluid to flow down to the brakes (but which prevent dust and moisture getting in) but this is rare. Motorbikes and pedal bikes use this system so the fluid does not spill when the bike falls over but it is rare in cars. Even with this fitted opening up the cap to check the fluid level allows humid air to contact the highly hygroscopic fluid.
You can buy a device for measuring any water content in brake fluid. Various lights show the percentage of moisture. Mine was creeping up so took it to a garage for a change. But the fluid never looked like the stuff in that car.
Top job as always Baz 👍
great video why is it so dirty after 2x years ,I have a tester that I use to test the fluid but been thinking of doing this for ages
I have heard stories of insurance assesors check the fluid after a accident
what about the clutch is it not using same fluid
Your right, but the fluid in the slave cylinder is not going to cause any safety problems or get anywhere near as hot. Personally I would do it, but you got to be aware of service costs for the customer. (most of them are playing you off against the next garage without any idea of the different standard of servicing)
Hi Baz, hope you are well. What do you use for cleaning the engine bay. Looks like good stuff. Thanks pal. Craig 🙂👍🏼
awww no Opel on the toolbox😢 i guess Chevy or Citroen now will fit just fine
Baz with your machine can you see a problem starting at the rear wheels??? cheers
Another main reason when absorbing moisture from the air. It can corrode pipes inside out. Damaged abs pumps from rust/corrosion due to the moisture. And to be honest whats 100 quid or how much they charge for a brake fluid change compared to 1000 of pounds for abs pumps
@@shahislam9450 100%
Ford main dealer charged £30 in march for my fluid change on a 2016 2.0 tdci mondeo, old fluid was filthy, was a huge difference in pedal feel after...
wot do you use on the engine bay to clean it up baz
baz need you advice you got any video mate on ford focus mk3 diesel 20 lt 64 plate altnerator replacement
Those little filter things in the reservoir , I always wonder why they are made so as they're damaged when you take them them out ?
VW does not earn a lot by selling cars. Might it be that they earn a lot by selling spare parts? 😮
It must be to give owners 'an opportunity' to buy another one 😂
Hi baz, im dubious about the brake fluid change as several times its been listed as done but cant see anything disturbed on the calipers. Whats the charge for doing it
Anywhere from 60 to 100 ISH but all depends on your garage prices
@@bazmeredith where are you based?
30psi, damn, i do this with pressurised water pump, but only go to around 11psi, dont want to cause any unnecessary damage to hoses,, just takes a couple of minutes longer to bleed(flush) each point. Why they say tyre pressure level is good for doing this id never know. Special tools😅 they really dont want you doing things ya self these days do they....
We must be one of the rare ones Baz, we have always done fluid changes according to service intervals, have you a special spanner yo access the rear bleed valves on VW with electric handbrake wheels on
@@beekeeperkev no mate I normally take the rear wheels off as it's so much easier
What do you use for cleaning the engine bay I like to do that aswell
Universal vinyl and rubber dressing buddy
@bazmeredith 👍I do use it but it only looks good for a short while and the grease residue grabs more dirt quicker than a clean dry surface. I think there's a gap in the market for a product that can make short work of cleaning up the worst of dirty dusty neglected engine bays and good enough for a spring clean after working on someone's pride and joy. I'm from the era of being told to wipe things down with a oily rag and before plastic became all you can see when you look at a engine that was fine. I've seen the problems that occur when people think hot jet washing a engine bay is a quick and easy way to get it looking like new. When I service a car that's very dirty under the bonnet I've been blowing off what I can with a air line and using undiluted screen wash
@@colinhamer6506no need to use a dressing, use bilt hamber surfex hd which is a very good multipurpose cleaner
Silcone 5 DOT never need to change.
I change my fluid every 2 years.
Hi Baz question? is there any chance of these high pressure bleeding machines flipping the master cylinder seals?
@@MrMGZT no mate, theres more chance of doing that when you pump the pedal to the floor because the rod can go to far past the normal distance it travels
No chance, it pressurizes the seal in the direction it is supposed to be.
@@tomcurran65 thanks for the info
As I’m not a. Mechanic I have a fiat Scudo van in the Uk it’s 2005 plate I’ve owned it 5 years and never changed the brake fluid does it really make a difference is it just good practice to change it 😊
Brake fluid is hydroscopic (easily absorbs moisture) this can be a problem under prolonged heavy braking, the moisture can boil from the heat at the disc/calliper causing an air lock and brake fade or even failure. The moisture can also cause corrosion in the ABS pump and you don’t want to buy one of them !
Great tool that.!
Mr Push Mat Armstrong uses one
enough said...
Like trying to get blood out of a stone with customers mate
@@Theorangeman. Not wrong
Do u own this garage
Hygroscopic, not hydroscopic.
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Think Do We Own The Car Or Does It Own Us
Thirty one thousand in two years what is it a taxi 🤔
I don't think that's particularly high, 25-30k a year just commuting to and from work for me, 2016 2.0 tdci mondeo and it's on 180k
25k per year for me. so that's average.
@@stevenking2946 check it out 6500 a year is average and ten is considered high petrol or diesel
I do 15,000 a year, so that's average I say!
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Cuz you don't do the corners with seized bleed nipples😂
no such thing is simple on vw man
On a slightly older car,,,,,,,,Say a 2012 ,,You would never see brake fluid this dirty after only 31k miles,,But thanks to the climate dumb dumbs who think wind farms and EV are zero emissions new cars must use dot 5.1 fluid which is kinder to the climate,,,,,,,Which it actually isn't,,,,,,Its ultra thin which means less lubricity for your ABS pump,,It will wear much faster,,And it's acidic ,,Which means the more moisture it absorbs,The quicker it will eat the brake lines ,,,Just like all these new ultra thin engine oils now,,It's not that new engines need these thin oils,,,Tolerances are exactly the same with brand new engines today as they were 15 years ago,,,They want you to use these thin oils because they cause less resistance with engine parts,,which means you get about 0.0001 MPG more,,It's more climate shite,,But the thinner oils wear out engine parts twice as fast,,Because you only get half the protection of a thicker oil,,
Oh, to have a lift!
Thanks Baz, that reminds me - mine's 3mth overdue! 🫣