Brake Pedal - Sometimes Hard, Sometimes Soft

[Smurf]

Hi All,

This has only started happening this week, and it's thrown me a little bit...

Sometimes the brake pedal feels hard on my foot like I would expect it, but other times it's really quite soft. The effectiveness seems the same, but it's slightly un-nerving putting my foot on the brake and having it travel further than it did the last time I braked...

There's plenty of brake fluid, and the pads on the front have got plenty of life left (back's are a lot lower, but still enough there).

With the engine off I can pump the pedal about four times before the "woosh" goes, which I imagine is normal. With the engine idling, the "woosh" is audible every time I pump the pedal, and the pedal seems soft. It doesn't go right to the floor, and with the foot flat on it it doesn't keep gradually travelling.

Any ideas?

Thanks,

Neil

[Stupink]

Can only reccomend the same as anyone would probably suggest, bleed the entire system through with new fluid.. then see how it feels.. could be air, could be old fluid.

[Smurf]

Thanks Stu - it seems to have been better today so I'm going to monitor it over the weekend. If it's still like it next week then I'll bleed it.

[Col_UK]

yeah I'd suggest a change of brake fluid first
sounds like an airlock of a kind but surely that'd mean your loosing fluid which u say ur not
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[thesaint]

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