Sticking Brake Pedal - 986 Forum - The Community for Porsche Boxster & Cayman Owners

Perfectlap · 07-19-2006, 01:33 PM

brakes are not a good DIY area to be learning on. I'm all for doing maintenance on your own, replacing pads on this car is very easy for example, but he stated "I know my brakes are not great" and that he already had an appointment with the stealership. A trip to the dealership for a thorough look is not at all a bad thing and far from a waste of money.

ohioboxster · 07-19-2006, 01:43 PM

I respectfully disagree perfectlap. Im not sure of his skill level it was not stated but could be assumed as basic, not sure. As far as where I disagree with you, my opinion is everytime you take your car to the dealership its a waste of money. Just my opinion.

Perfectlap · 07-19-2006, 02:36 PM

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Originally Posted by ohioboxster

I respectfully disagree perfectlap. Im not sure of his skill level it was not stated but could be assumed as basic, not sure. As far as where I disagree with you, my opinion is everytime you take your car to the dealership its a waste of money. Just my opinion.

yes I will agree:
(a)what it actually costs to repair - (b)mark up Porsche charges = (c)waste of money

rubberduckie · 07-19-2006, 03:19 PM

I posted this question on another forum also and one response was that it might be due to the fact that the car hasn't been driven for 2 weeks and one of the pistons got stick. They mentioned that simply driving the car could unstick it. I would like to give this a shot, but I don't want to damage the car if this ends up not being the problem. Any suggestions? should I give it a shot?

Grizzly · 07-19-2006, 03:46 PM

Whether you agree with Perfectlap or Ohioboxster as to who should check it out and do the repair really doesn't matter. What matters is that someone get to the bottom of the problem. Test driving it around to see if the malfunction will correct itself is really not a good idea when you're talking about brakes. Know what I mean?

rubberduckie · 07-19-2006, 01:45 PM

Thanks for the advice. My baby is a 1997 tip Boxster with 47,000 miles and no signs of fluid on the garage floor. The fact that it is an older Box makes me hope that it just needs new rubber hoses, but the pedal is not weak or mushy as yuo discribed, rather somewhat herd to compress and rises back up very slowly. I appreciate all the hlep!

rubberduckie · 07-19-2006, 02:30 PM

Just went out to check the brake pedal again and now it is also clicking when it goes up or down in addition to sticking and being very slow to rise. What does this mean??