I am the owner of a WRX RA 95MY. Recently I had a bad experience when I had to do a bit of heavy braking! The car spun 180 on a dry road. This surprised me so tested the car on a straight road at 45mph, applied brakes reasonably heavy and rear offside wheel locked up. Has been looked at by garage who specialise in Scoobys but they can't find a problem. Has anybody any ideas what could be the problem?

 

Jesus,

I bet you needed a change of pants as well

Seriously though, I experienced the same thing, not in my Scooby, but in my old company car. It was a Renault Laguna with no ABS.

I was driving along (about 60) on a country road late at night. It was slight damp as well. I had to brake suddenly and very hard.

The fronts locked up and I could immediately feel the tail end start to swap ends. Luckily I decided it was safer to go down the the dirt track road in front rather than negotiating the hairpin that suddenly appeared out of the darkness.

I put it down to a crap car with the handling of a 3 year olds trike.

Can you check the brake balance between front and rears. On ABS cars I think the two fronts are independant and the rears work together. I've also heard that WRX and STi's are light at the back and the suspensions a bit on the stiff side. Maybe it's these combinations that making the back a bit light and causing the wheel to lock.

What about the wheel bearing?

If I'm talking crap then ignore me, I'll not take offence

Stefan