Brake Fluid replacement

Hi, Its been three years since my last brake fluid change so I guess now
is a good time to get it replaced.

Any ideas on the cost of brake fluid replacement on a 1.4 206?

Thanks

 

Yes go down to halfords and buy a gall of it.and just keep filling the
bottle up each time u have bleed each wheel.
Chris addlestone

 

Yes go down to halfords and buy a gall of it.and just keep filling the
bottle up each time u have bleed each wheel.
Chris addlestone

 

Chris, do you have a problem with your PC only I have noticed recently that
many of your posts are appearing twice.

Keith

 

i did have it should be sorted by now.its a pain at times.

 

Yes go down to halfords and buy a gall of it.and just keep filling
With my brakes I'm not going to take any chances, especially now that I
have a baby daughter, probably best to leave this to people who have
done it before. So any idea how much a garage would charge to change it?

Thanks

 

Well at £40plus a hour. plus the fluid it could cost you a bit.i done
mine and took my time and all my brakes work very well now.
chris addlestone,

 

So its just a matter of unscrewing the bleed plug one brake at a time
and topping up?

Eg:

1 Front left wheel - unscrew bleed plug and drain fluid until it no
longer flows.
2 Tighten the bleed plug
3 top up with brake fluid
4 repeat for each wheel.

What about air getting into the system? Do I need to pump the brakes
while doing draining it?

Thanks

 

You do it like you are getting air out of the system.thats the way i did
it. you can do it the way you said if you got time .
chris Addlestone

 

I used to do my cars in the days before I got white hair and you could
always tell when the old fluid was out because the colour changed as it came
out of the bleed tube (i.e. the new stuff ain't dirty).

 

Hello,
No, you're supposed to open the bleed screw, have an assistant slowly
press the pedal whilst you top the reservoir up, when the pedal is at
the end of it's travel, keep it down, tighten the bleed screw, release
the pedal, then repeat and repeat...

 

That is the theory but in the distant past on an Austin 1800, a Cortina and
a Princess I found that method was slow enough to allow air to creep back
in. The method I used, as suggested by a professional mechanic, was for
the assistant to pump the pedal hard 3 or 4 times and hold the pedal hard
down after the last stroke. Then open the bleed valve, fluid will spurt
out and you close the valve again. After which the assistant releases the
pedal and then you top up the reservoir. Continue until new fluid is coming
out and then repeat for the other wheels. In all three cases that method
worked. One point of interest, the Princess had 6 bleed valves because
instead of the dual circuit being the usual one rear brake and the opposite
side front, it was one rear and one pad on each front wheel. This made it
less likely to veer off course if one circuit failed.