Method for checking a pressure fluid reservoir

A method is disclosed for monitoring a pressure fluid reservoir that is equipped with an elastically-shaped media-separating element and a terminal position seal in which fluid reservoir is connected in a pressure fluid loop having a pressure generator driven by a drive unit and having at least one measuring instrument, which detects a parameter representing the operating pressure in the pressure fluid loop. The parameter is delivered to an electronic control unit, where it is further processed into a trigger signal, among others for the drive unit of the pressure generator. After the operating pressure in the pressure fluid loop has dropped below a prestressing pressure the drive unit of the pressure generator is triggered by the control unit, and via a predeterminable time interval beginning with this triggering, the signal course of the measuring instrument is plotted by the control unit and compared with a suitably memorized set-point value course. Deviations in the signal course in the positive direction allow conclusions to be drawn about possible damage in the pressure fluid reservoir, particularly at the terminal position seal.