Occasionally when I start the car the brakes are rock hard and don't work at all for a couple of minutes, fine when you remember but not good when you've forgotten, jump in it and pull away immediately and something stops in front of you
I 'think' it's the vacc pump but not sure but I'm sure Jas or MJB will be along to put me on the right track
Also I was told when I bought it the clutch was on the way out. However the biting point is actually at the bottom of the pedal. The ratchet is dodgy and does not fully return. If I really want to I can stick my boot under it and hook it back up but to be honest I ignore it as it does return halfway which is enough to change gear with. Compared to the 406 it is a pig to change gear but ok as long as you remember you have to dip the clutch all the way to the floor, to the point of pushing the pedal against the bulkhead but then again the 406 is hydraulic and this is cable. The cable has stretched a fair bit but a clutch clinic checked it out without driving it and said the clutch was knackered and there was no point in changing the cable as it would just stretch again very quickly. Their reason for saying the clutch needed replacing was that the cable "creaks", therefore the clutch is knackered
Someone else said they thought the pedal box had possibly been removed and put in wrong as it felt offset, or that the quadrant and cable needed replacing.
As far as I am aware it's on the original clutch and has done 173,000 (that's over 50,000 LESS than the 406)
