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01-31-2012, 06:30 PM

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no brake pedal

my brake pedal goes down to the floor with little resistance, I've changed the master cylinder and bled it properly then bled the entire system and still have no pedal. Any suggestions would help.

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02-01-2012, 08:58 AM

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New MC is bad, fluid leak, or still air in there. Did you bleed the ABS? How about the clutch if a manual tranny.

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02-01-2012, 12:05 PM

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New MC is bad, fluid leak, or still air in there. Did you bleed the ABS? How about the clutch if a manual tranny.

thanks for the info
did not find a bleeder on the abs and I do have a manual tranny

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02-01-2012, 01:02 PM

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thanks for the info
did not find a bleeder on the abs and I do have a manual tranny

ABS has to be bleed using a VAG-Com. Clutch bleeding shouldn't effect brakes, but you could have got air in the clutch system when you changed out the MC since they share the same fluid reservoir.

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