Thanks in advance for any help.


Literally over night my brakes have gone inceribly spongy and you have to press the pedal to the floor for the car to stop. When you pump the pedal with the engine off it does go stiff.

I have looked in the brake fluid resivoir and cannot see any fluid. but the cap has a prong which seems to go right to the bottom of the resivoir so i am not sure how full it needs to be. If i filled the resivoir up then it will overflow when i put the cap on.

Obviously it is at least going to need filling and bleeding, but do i have a leak? where would be the most likely places to check?

How far do you fill the resevoir?

I cant afford to go to the garage right now so any help would be greatly appreciated.

If i do have to pay to get this fixed is it likely to be expensive?

My car is a 1.6 8v Mk4 1998.

Many thanks