I skipped fooling with the master cylinder again. In stead I rebled the lines using a vacuum pump. Someone suggested doing a gravity bleeding, would have taken a lot of time. So I have the best result yet now but brake pedal now goes lower than before for the brake action to begin. The car will stop...

Wow, those are interesting scenarios especially the last one. I would have sold it as well. They all seem to be different to my case but I was going to try rebleeding the master cylinder. The bench bleed lines were not clear so I could not observe the bubbles. I found clear tubing. We did try bleedi...

I have heard of air in ABS, yes! It happens on bmw, benz, etc so why not volvo. The question is how is it removed? Can we bleed with the motor running? The bigger question is this: How does air get intoduced into a closed system in the first place? I have been doing this same procedure for decades w...

The car can drive but if you need to stop you will not be able to. The pedal goes down to the floor and the stopping distance is considerably longer. As far as caliper being bad.... meh, I don't know. There are no leaks around it. With the anti rattle spring I would expect noise if it were missing. ...

I changed my front pads and now have spongy brakes. No, I did not leave the cap on when pushing the caliper pistons back in for either side. Simple pad change is something I have done on many cars over the last 30 years and have done this at least 4 times on this 2006 T5 V50. I bought a brand new ma...