On 2008-02-08, :Jerry: <INVALID@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>
> "Whiskers" <catwheezel@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in message
> news:slrnfqn707.pm3.catwheezel@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>> On 2008-01-24, Adrian <toomany2cvs@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>>> Whiskers (Whiskers <catwheezel@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>) gurgled happily,
>>> sounding
>>> much like they were saying:
>>>
>>>>> When were the rear brakes last done?
>>>
>>>> Last serviced in the summer and not many thousand miles added
>>>> since.
>>>> MOT passed in December.
>>>
>>> Mmm. But when were the back brakes last touched?
>>
>> Errr .... I don't watch the garage doing the work, but the car was
>> 10
>> years old at the time of the last service in July, and had just over
>> 90,000 miles on the clock. The invoice I paid mentions "renew rear
>> wheel
>> cylinders and bleed system" and the work-sheet has boxes for "check
>> operation and condition of front brakes" and "check operation and
>> condition of rear brakes (including handbrake)" and "carry out brake
>> re****t" all of which were ticked.
>
> Quite possibly everything was OK, if what is suspected has happened it
> has not happened out of ware and tear but just old age.
Well I know that feeling.
>> The pads/shoes at the front were
>> re****ted as having 20% wear, and the rear 25%, and the discs/drums
>> were
>> described as 'corroded' (I was also charged for "brake cleaner"
>> which I
>> assumed was to deal with the corroded discs). The brakes seemed to
>> me to
>> be working correctly, right up to the moment they weren't.
>
> No, that is cleaning fluid to de-dust the friction linings and
> surfaces, quite frankly most garages absorb this cost (no pun
> intended) as part of the service/labour charge - how much did they
> charge BTW?
On close inspection of the invoice, that item is listed but no specific
charge is shown for it.
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>> I didn't have time to arrange anything before resorting to rail
>> travel,
>> and only got back last night. I sincerely hope it doesn't cost more
>> than
>> about 100 quid to fix - I'm skint. Railway tickets are not cheap,
>> either!
>>
>
> Just make sure that they *KNOW* what 'you' suspect the problem is,
> that way they will hopefully lift the rear wheels and not the front
> when recovering the car back to their workshops... The bug in the soup
> in all this will be how much they charge for the recovery. :~(
If they lift the back they'll have to take it out of gear too, of course;
the front wheels won't go round otherwise. Hopefully I can arrange to be
there when the tow-truck arrives - I'm one of the 'time rich' so that's
quite possible. The car is less than two miles from the garage.
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