Corroded brake discs.
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Following some work on my car, Arnold Clark gave me a list of some work they identified as need looking at in the next few months.
Apart from a dim headlight replacement quoted at £37.50 which made me laugh, it said :-
Brake disc (rear) corroded, (didn't say one or two), £463.92.
So the disc is corroded, should I replace or not.
Apart from a dim headlight replacement quoted at £37.50 which made me laugh, it said :-
Brake disc (rear) corroded, (didn't say one or two), £463.92.
So the disc is corroded, should I replace or not.
Vipers said:
Following some work on my car, Arnold Clark gave me a list of some work they identified as need looking at in the next few months.
Apart from a dim headlight replacement quoted at £37.50 which made me laugh, it said :-
Brake disc (rear) corroded, (didn't say one or two), £463.92.
So the disc is corroded, should I replace or not.
Nah, take it for a good blast and do some heavy braking to clean them up.Apart from a dim headlight replacement quoted at £37.50 which made me laugh, it said :-
Brake disc (rear) corroded, (didn't say one or two), £463.92.
So the disc is corroded, should I replace or not.
It's usually the inner side of the rear discs that can get light surface corrosion.
gazza285 said:
lord trumpton said:
It's usually the inner side of the rear discs that can get light surface corrosion.
Why is that then? Every time I brake both side of the discs are used the same...Perhaps?
lord trumpton said:
Nah, take it for a good blast and do some heavy braking to clean them up.
Some cars have very little braking force on the rears so discs look awful whatever you do - we have Honda Jazz's in the family and their terrible for it.On all cars once a band of rust starts to spread across the face it won't clean up as the rust rubs away the pad and you end up with only a narrow shiny band. (ETA: as in the picture above).
Edited by Sheepshanks on Saturday 22 October 21:01
castroses said:
gazza285 said:
lord trumpton said:
It's usually the inner side of the rear discs that can get light surface corrosion.
Why is that then? Every time I brake both side of the discs are used the same...Perhaps?
Sheepshanks said:
Some cars have very little braking force on the rears so discs look awful whatever you do - we have Honda Jazz's in the family and their terrible for it.
On all cars once a band of rust starts to spread across the face it won't clean up as the rust rubs away the pad and you end up with only a narrow shiny band. (ETA: as in the picture above).
That's a front disc too - I wondered why it was harder to stop recently On all cars once a band of rust starts to spread across the face it won't clean up as the rust rubs away the pad and you end up with only a narrow shiny band. (ETA: as in the picture above).
Edited by Sheepshanks on Saturday 22 October 21:01
Vipers said:
????? Volvo S80, am I missing something.
Without pricing the parts, I'd expect that work to cost a maximum of £125 at a good independent with decent quality bits and an hour's labour.Perhaps a bit less if Justin's prices are correct above.
Arnold must be a very rich man if he can get away with those prices!
Edited by Nick NE on Saturday 22 October 23:06
Vipers said:
Nick NE said:
Vipers said:
Brake disc (rear) corroded, (didn't say one or two), £463.92.
What car do you have? Three Range Rovers?
Even if it were both - tell them to f
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