Discs and pads changed. Shocking,ashamed of myself.
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I knew they needed doing but put it off and put it off.
With the weather getting colder I thought I better have a look. My super son said he would do them for me so this morning we had a look, when he took the pads out we were horrified.
Thoroughly ashamed of myself for letting them get that bad but worrying how they had started to come apart.
With the weather getting colder I thought I better have a look. My super son said he would do them for me so this morning we had a look, when he took the pads out we were horrified.
Thoroughly ashamed of myself for letting them get that bad but worrying how they had started to come apart.
Lesson learnt there.
My old man has always self serviced his car - and one routine he religiously does each year is fully strip the brakes on all 4 corners clean them up (replace if worn) and add copper grease. In doing that the above pics simply couldn’t happen.
Anyway thankfully that’s one accident not going to happen.
Also as others mentioned I’m guessing the discs are pretty worn too...
My old man has always self serviced his car - and one routine he religiously does each year is fully strip the brakes on all 4 corners clean them up (replace if worn) and add copper grease. In doing that the above pics simply couldn’t happen.
Anyway thankfully that’s one accident not going to happen.
Also as others mentioned I’m guessing the discs are pretty worn too...
Discs were not that bad to be honest, there was a lip on them and they needed doing but nothing worth taking a picture of.
It is an older car (2006) but it has been serviced that many times I need a new service book as the current one is now full. We do a lot of work our self but wanted to keep the service history up to date.
The garage that does the service obviously do not strip and clean the brakes.
It is an older car (2006) but it has been serviced that many times I need a new service book as the current one is now full. We do a lot of work our self but wanted to keep the service history up to date.
The garage that does the service obviously do not strip and clean the brakes.
Edited by randomeddy on Saturday 27th October 14:22
randomeddy said:
Discs were not that bad to be honest, there was a lip on them and they needed doing but nothing worth taking a picture of.
Did you grind the lip off or are you awaiting new discs before you put it back together? Using new pads on lipped discs and then hoping to use them on new discs is not a good more. 
Not as bad as an experience I had with Ferodo pads in the dim and distant past (on a Fiat 128).
They were guaranteed for 15,000 miles but wore out in 3,000. Obviously I did not expect them to and didn't pay much attention to the grinding noise. Then "bang" the worn out pad got so thin it slipped out of the caliper altogether and the braking effect I was left with was from the piston itself pushing on the disc.
Got my money back on the pads though.
They were guaranteed for 15,000 miles but wore out in 3,000. Obviously I did not expect them to and didn't pay much attention to the grinding noise. Then "bang" the worn out pad got so thin it slipped out of the caliper altogether and the braking effect I was left with was from the piston itself pushing on the disc.
Got my money back on the pads though.
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