A word of warning to all :(

[SiVWW]

Morning all, hope you all had a good weekend.

Just wanted to share with you a word of warning to all having just had this happen to me on Friday night, and having researched it, it seems to be ticking timebomb for us all with T2, T25/3 & T4 vehicles. This may be already knowledge to you all, but to me, just starting out with the T25, it was a scare.

We were heading upto Delamont for the weekend in Bert on Friday evening.... Bert spotless, and loaded to the gills with everything for the weekend; came to the hill at the end of the motorway, began to brake for the tight bend and traffic lights.... and the brake pedal went to the floor. Talk about a brown pants moment. Vigorous pumping of the pedal got us eventually stopped.

Nursed it round the corner and into a side street, removed the dash binnacle to check the brake fluid level ( reservoir full ). On pumping the pedal vigorously again, the brake pedal returned, though leaving it for any time allowed the pedal to loose pressure and go straight to the floor again. Drove very slowly and carefully home, constantly pumping the brake pedal with my left foot to keep braking pressure there.

Turns out this is a common issue... where the seals fail in the master cylinder; no signs of failing, no progressively worse pedal, no leaks etc.... they just go!!!!

So, about to take it apart and work out which master cylinder i need ( im presuming there is more than one for dual braking servo assist ? )

This seems to be a failure point in T4's which have just had brake work done and pedals pumped hard for bleeding of brakes.

Anyways, after what happened, im inclined to replace everything, as its the scariest thing having brake failure like that... im only thankful it was in the evening and there was little traffic about, or i dread to think what could have happened to both our legs in a frontal impact, and Bert!

So my campervan baptism of fire continues!!!!! lol