Thanks Andy for your whole-hearted gratutude for my simple services.
Glad that TARDIS is back on your drive and in the rudest of health, where she belongs.
Missed anything out? Don't think so - think you got everything covered there.
Will, there was a DTC thrown up on the diagnostic scan which pointed to the brake pressure relief solenoid defective and this in a lot of cases is linked to the brake switch itself, but sometimes, it's the actual F84 sensor, which is linked to the brake servo and this is not a cheap fix (hence my earlier post about it could be good or bad news).
Well, the initial good news was that after a clean up of the burnt contacts inside the brake light switch, the fault cleared down, only to come back during a short test drive. So, it was back to square 1 and check out the brake system from scratch.
Pretty much the first thing I noticed was that the reservoir was very full (almost no air at the top of the bottle), so I drained this down to the max mark.
Now bearing in mind that the original fault code was caused by a brake pressure relief sensor, it kind of makes sense that an overfilling would cause too much back pressure in the system, even just a little bit and it trips the system into a fault state.
Pleased to say that after another short drive over the same route, no faults returned and indeed, the lights stayed out during the trans-Pennine trip back to Netherton.
So, that's the possible consequence of an overfilled brake fluid reservoir Will.
Glad that you and Mrs A are pleased and calling that handsome feline a pud now is the icing!!!
All the best,
Cheers,
Mike