Stuff like this tends to be rare, especially in that condition, which means you're going to spend some €€€. Pretty sure it's an aftermarket part made for the Golf.
It's ofc not OEM, but was a part you could buy at the time. They are fairly rare now, and not produced anymore. I tend to be for "stock only" but they do fit the car very well. 200€ isn't that bad tbh.
Among the many quirks my Odyssey has, the brakes don’t work when it’s too cold out. I believe it’s the hydraulics in the brake system freezing or something, but you have to wait a few minutes for the car to warm up before the brakes work. Just another reason I hate cold weather... (-.-*)
Brake fluid should be good down to -40 or so unless you've got water trapped in the lines. The pads can harden though at such temperatures and suck a bit
I don’t know what it is, but the dealer said it was a “common problem” with my model, and that there wasn’t really anything they could do about it. I could try to figure it out myself, but I’m not sure I’m mechanicaly inclined enough. I’ve just learnt to deal with it, and I tend to let the car warm up anyways because it’s freezing!
I question the 'common problem' part. I could hardly find anything about it on Google, and the ones I did find were related to Honda Accords. I'd imagine there'd have been atleast afew people asking about it, especially when it's something as important as the brakes. I think I'm at college tomorrow so I'll ask there if anyone knows what the cause may be --- Post updated --- ++I forgot to ask, how cold does it get exactly?
It may very well just by my car, and the dealer is saying it’s a common problem for whatever reason. I’ve already had to replace the entire power steering system once before, and the transmission has shifting problems on hills, so I could very well have somewhat of a lemon. It’s not too big of a deal, it’s just annoying to have to wait for the brakes to warm up. Right now, it’s anywhere from -5 to 15 degrees (Fahrenheit). It depends on the wind speed. I need to move somewhere warmer, I hate the cold. (*≧∀≦*)
I looked into it for abit, and I think it's something to do with a bad 'brake booster check valve'. I was on an Acura forum and the people there said that they also had this problem, and taking it to a dealer just led to them saying things along the lines of 'it's common' , 'it's normal' or that there isn't anything they can do about it. I may be wrong, but that part was the only thing I could find that the dealer's, for whatever reason, wouldn't touch. Unfortunately, I wouldn't know what goes into replacing one though.. A video I saw of it didn't make it look too hard, but all cars are different
ATTN: All US citizens of voting age on this forum. (@Potato @Peterbilt along with anyone else I forgot). (If you are not a US citizen or are ineligible to vote, you may safely ignore this message and any ensuing discussion.) As you may or may not know, I like to rant periodically about the idiotic reverence with which the catalytic converter is treated in US law. If you replace a catalyst that still has any life left in it, run on the street without a catalyst, damage a catalyst so you have an excuse to replace it, or use a different type or number of catalysts than the car came with, that's a federal felony. As far as I'm concerned, both the "federal" and "felony" parts of that have got to die. So if your car comes with a single exhaust but can benefit from true duals, has one of those integrated header-catalysts, or simply refuses to ruin its catalyst in time for you to start upgrading the exhaust when you'd like, well, you've got a stupid federally-mandated bottleneck in your exhaust that you can't do anything about without risking jail time and permanent loss of your right to vote or possess a firearm. Depending on how the regulations work out (I haven't really looked deep enough into it), you might not even be able to use a larger inlet/outlet diameter to go with a larger exhaust, and might be stuck with old, restrictive catalyst technology if that's what your car came with. Backdating engines is also illegal; a 2JZ-GE will drop right into a Pontiac Solstice (you just need to carry the bellhousing and engine mounts over from the donor Supra; they'll bolt into the stock locations just fine), but this is illegal and probably a felony too, who knows. This is where it gets interesting. Everything I've heard indicates that these infuriating rules are not, in fact, laws; rather, they're regulations set by the Environmental Protection Agency (which seems to have been given near carte blanche by the old Clean Air Act). You might have noticed that our current president is Donald Trump, who's so far been very amenable to scrubbing executive regulations and has installed a right-winger as top dog at the EPA. Laws which are really mere regulations written by an executive agency, never passed by Congress (but "authorized" by Congress as part of the agency's creation, which is a cheeky little end-run around the Constitution and needs to stop), could, as far as I know, be immediately destroyed via executive order without needing to go back through the normal decision-making process of the agency that created them. In fact, I'm guessing that's a lot of what Trump is already doing. Catchin' my brain waves yet? Love or hate Trump, you can't deny that this is a golden opportunity to finally kill the idiotic, heavy-handed, unconstitutional specter of the federal catalytic converter felony. Tonight, I'm very seriously calling on all American gearheads to join the fight and help inject some common sense into this area of regulation. I thought about bringing this to the attention of SEMA Action Network, but decided against it as their main concern seems to be helping with custom street rods and converted track-only cars while looking all reasonable and green-friendly, not with the guy who wants a dual-purpose car or just more kick from their daily driver. If you're afraid that unexpectedly high numbers of people will take a hacksaw to their catalyst and we'll end up with a real air-quality problem, well, first, a lot of people already do it anyway, second, there is still room to make the regulations a lot more reasonable, and third, that can still be handled at the state level. That's how America is supposed to work; the federal government was deliberately made weak because, among other reasons, the founders knew one size absolutely does not fit all. What's a major problem in one area might not even be a problem in another. The problem is, this is a highly technical issue where it will be difficult to motivate either the general population or the politicians to support changing the status quo. Any attempt to do so risks tipping off the left and making an issue out of this. We need data and information to show that ending the current catalytic converter regulations won't cause an insurmountable public health challenge, and we also need to come up with convincing positive reasons to change them - in other words, we need to show both that changing the current regulations is not only not a bad idea, but actually a good idea. And, finally, we need a way to get a convincing level of support built up, and convey our message to the President or someone close to him, without tipping off the left or catching the attention of someone who would try to convince the President that this would be a bad idea. Supposedly, the White House runs and maintains a petition site, and is obligated to investigate anything that gets to... I think it was 100K signatures, but starting it there runs the risk of it stalling out in the three, four, or five figures while the left convinces everyone (including Trump who, as stated before, could probably fix this with about two sentences due to the way the regulations in question were enacted) that everyone will suffocate and die if these regulations are struck. If anyone's interested in finally fixing this garbage, I at least have a place where we can congregate and plan. It's an old Invisionfree forum that I started years ago, back in my "ban all bronies!" phase. I never actually got anything started there, but it's complete in every detail, and everything works, at least as far as I know. We can use that to congregate, gather data, and work out our plan. I was also planning on hitting up other car forums (I'm a member of several and could qualify for several more just with the cars I have access to) to see if I can drum up any more support for this. Anyone who wants to, can join me and provide whatever legal or technical knowledge you have access to, or just lend their name to the cause. Oh, one final thing. We need a way to make sure there will be amnesty for anyone who chops their catalyst before this happens. Drawing attention to the presence of this regulation without such a guarantee would be a good way to get a bunch of people tossed in the slammer for their videos on YouTube bragging about illegal exhaust mods, which is pretty much exactly the opposite of what I'm going for here.
I just came up with this project car, you need a black Pontiac Trans Am (Any gen) and paint the Vanoss Gold Logo on to the hood I call it the "Van Am"
Boy, someone has been doing their research... I personally never understood the whole catalytic converter laws, because, as far as I am concerned, as long as your car can pass the emissions test, shouldn't the car be legal anyways? I have had a couple of decated cars (that look like they have cats) that have passed emissions with flying colors... even better in some instances than a couple of my cars with cats. Nowadays, I do run all my cars (at least the ones with O2 sensors) that came with cats with cats... I just usually use high performance ones from flowmaster... if what I am reading there is right, are you saying that its illegal for me to put a high performance cat on my car? Because if that is the case, I had no idea, and neither did anyone else at the garage where I get my vehicles inspected.
2 questions: does it run and can you give it a good clean? If you clean it itll look alot better condition wise
