MK5 Golf GTI

All Things Mk5 => Modifications & Technical Area => Technical Workshop => Topic started by: Shroom101 on September 28, 2011, 05:10:19 pm

Title: Brake bleeding/flushing to vagcom or not to vag com what is the answer?
Post by: Shroom101 on September 28, 2011, 05:10:19 pm

Hi I am a newbie on here but have a good few VW's and like to do most of the maintenance.


My wifes MKV tdi needs a brake fluid change and would hope to do this by myself.

I have read in this forum that you should use Vagcom to cycle the abs if you are to do it properly. And i have read the topic by teutonic tamer. Breeze VW new nothing about this unless air gets in the system (e.g. system drained) and it cant be rectified by normal measures.

I am happy to use vagcom to do this but on another site it indicates tat doing it this way puts lots of pressure on the system and can lead to faults.

Also the time the abs should be cycled varies from 10-30 seconds.

Is there a consensus opinion out there?

Finally the bleading of the clutch... shoudl it be done first or last?


Cheers for any advice

Title: Re: Brake bleeding/flushing to vagcom or not to vag com what is the answer?
Post by: Tfsi_Mike on September 28, 2011, 05:13:00 pm

Teutomic Tamer on here mentioned a while ago that when using VAGCOM to do the fluid, the stuff that was flushed out was discusting.  :happy2:

Title: Re: Brake bleeding/flushing to vagcom or not to vag com what is the answer?
Post by: Shroom101 on October 01, 2011, 06:28:26 am

cheers for that.. any more advice?