I've previously serviced ( about 3-4 years ago now can't recall exactly ) brakes all round with Pagid all round and was generally good. On an 06 Fabia. Don't do the miles so much now hence why they have lasted.
Since I've owned the car on rare occasion got complete loss of (vacuum?) assistance, but literally just a handful of times in many, many years, so far from frequent.
If anything I've just lost a "progressive" feeling of the brakes is the key thing, I am assuming a good all round bleed might help a lot but not sure about the drop and overall function of the pedal itself.
Compared to Mk3 octy where you can literally start breaking, then if you wanted just keep pushing to stop on a dime, its a far greater effort on the Fabia but will stop, and passed MOTs.
Other than usual wear of the brakes, other than a bit of an imbalance at the back with a stuck caliper on the rear, requiring a new pad they are otherwise pretty solid all around despite being used, but break powers not so good so presuming maybe just a brake fluid change would be in order as thats also a few years
Would it be premature to pay the £130 ish for a new all round pads and discs set Pagids from ECP at the same time ? Would there be any point ? Could even go further and look at servicing or replacing the calipers too ?
Or would it be better spent JUST bleeding the brakes and replacing the vacuum hoses ?
I had a bit of a look and feel under the bonnet just to satify and I just don't see any obvious splits etc though. Could I start car and get someone to pump brake while feeling around the pipes to get any feeling of loss perhaps ?
I wonder as a cheap version 1 check could maybe clean all the pipes and literally wrap in tape just to get a cheap immediate feel for whether this might be a deterioration somewhere ?
Thanks for any ideas