Motive Products Motive Power Bleeder 0100 Kit Bundle

I really truly love this device. It is by far both the best and the quickest way to bleed your brakes that I have ever found. I’ve bought and used every type of bleeder out there, and this style is by far my favorite.

I’ve tried the whole pedal pump method, and let’s face it…it sucks. Not only that, but it’s actually a good way to kill your master cylinder too! The rod inside the MC is only used to traveling so far, but when you’re bleeding your brakes it can easily go too far. It ends up destroying internal seals, and you end up wondering why on earth your brakes won’t work anymore no matter what you do.

6 months ago I bought a “MityVac”…worst product ever made! Within a few days it was falling apart, and it honestly just never worked all that well to begin with. It actually snapped in half earlier today. I will say that it was better than bleeding your brakes by pumping the pedal, but not by a lot.

The only other method I can really highly recommend for brake bleeding is the gravity method. It works wonderfully in almost every situation. I can’t say for sure how it works with ABS systems without a scan tool, but it works great in pretty much every normal situation you can think of. The problem, however, is that it takes forever! It’s literally a 12-24 hour long process to gravity bleed your brakes. On the plus side, you only need to be there at the beginning and the end, but still…

The Power bleeder…requires the absolute least amount of effort, and you can bleed your brakes in like 10 minutes. You fill it up with fluid. You pump up the pressure, and you go around the car cracking each bleeder screw one at a time. The best part? You don’t have to keep an eye on the fluid level. You don’t have to go add more every few minutes. You don’t have to go through a whole setup process at each wheel. You’ve got pressure going to all 4 wheels, so crack any one of them you like. Actually, you have pressure going to the master cylinder outlets too for that matter! I did a really half…you know what…job of bench bleeding my new master cylinder, but the power bleeder worked just fine with it. I just used the power bleeder to bleed the MC in the car by cracking the line open for a few seconds before moving on to the wheels. It worked great, and I’ve got a perfectly firm pedal after maybe 10 minutes of work.

I can not recommend this product enough!

DO NOT WASTE YOUR MONEY ON A MITYVAC!!! GET A POWER BLEEDER!!!

I just used this and the companion bleeder bottle to change out the brake fluid on my VW Tiguan. I have never done this before, but found it to be straightforward and not all that difficult. From the YouTube videos I watched, I knew you don’t really need these things, but they make it a lot easier and less chance of messing things up by getting air in the master cylinder. Some points:
1) As the top comment says, there is no swivel between the cap and the pump. You should have the adapter part fairly snug with tape on the fittings (same as you would use in plumbing) before you put it under pressure. I only did it hand tight and did have some minor leakage (no big deal, just put a paper towel under it). When you put the cap on the fluid reservoir, you have to turn the whole bottle along with it. Not too much of a problem without fluid already in it, but a bit of a pain if you dumped a bunch in.
2) Things you will need besides this and brake fluid: Lots of paper shop towels. Brake fluid is nasty stuff. You want to clean it off off any surface or yourself quickly. A cheap turkey baster. Get the old fluid out of the reservoir and have a bottle to put it in. Denatured alcohol. This is stuff you find in a Home Depot paint section. Use it to clean the bleeder and the bottle. The directions make a point of saying to use that instead of brake cleaner.

I used this to install and bleed a clutch slave cylinder and master cylinder on my 2003 VW Jetta and it worked flawlessly as expected, without needing a second person to pump the brake etc. Read the instructions and you will have good results.

Really great product to help with proper brake & clutch bleeding with my VWs. Especially since garages here in India do not even keep proper equipment for brake fluid change or even understand how important it is to change brake fluid. 1 star less due to no swivelling mechanism while screwing cap on fluid reservoir which means one has to rotate the pump in order to avoid kinking of pipe.

Best brake bleed system out there! Also used to bleed the clutch slave cylinder on my Porsche 924S, works well.

Just make sure you clean out the plastic reservoir, there will be plastic shavings left over from factory AND let it dry out before using, brake fluid is hygroscopic and will absorb water.

Believe the reviews about leaks, here’s why. This is a real simple device, it’s a reservoir that holds brake fluid with a piston pump to force positive pressure and fresh brake fluid into a vehicle brake system. I pumped the unit up to the recommended 15psi and immediately the pressure starts dropping. I got some soapy water to spray on the gauge fitting and line connections, every one of them had soap bubbles coming out from the connections. First I removed the cheap chinese gauge from the unit and placed o-rings (mine) on each side of the retaining nuts and and tightened it. This was not easy as you will need pair of angled needle nose pliers to hold the inside nut, no wrench or socket will fit inside the bottle. The outside nut is 14mm. After the gauge was properly sealed, I removed the cheap spring clamps on the tubing connectors that were leaking and replaced them with real screw type ring clamps. I also used blue thread locker on the brass fitting to on the cap tubing as teflon tape was not holding due to the sloppy tolerances of the brass fitting. After all of this and an hour of work, I got the bottle to hold pressure.

Motive could put another $3 dollars worth of parts and and apply some quality control in manufacturing and these units would be bulletproof. Obviously, they don’t care because they sell a ton of these.