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Hi all
I've been tasked with selling my dad's car since he's given up caravanning after his stroke and he's got a camper van now. Car in question is a 2014 Ssanyong Korando.
He lives an hour away but came round yesterday to leave the car with me so I could sell it. It needed four new tyres which I got fitted at a garage I've been going too for years
However, when fitting the tyres, he gave me part of the drivers side front spring which was knackered. He couldn't get the part and said to be careful driving it home. It also needs discs and pads all round.
100 yards down the road there was a loud bang and a grinding noise. On pulling over, the spring had snapped and was jammed against the inside of the tyre. I had no breakdown cover as it wasn't my car so opted to crawl the car the mile home as I couldn't leave it where it was.
Managed to get it home, hopefully it's done no damage to the tyre but it is what it is. I've managed to get the parts off someone on the Ssanyong owners club who runs a parts place. Front spring was just over £100, front discs and pads just over £100 and rear discs and pads just over £100. Didn't think that was too bad.
Now I needed to get the bits fitted, and for this, I have three options.
1) mobile mechanic - for this I again turned to local Facebook and asked if there was any mobile mechanics. I got a response from one and asked him to quote me. He seems eager to sell me the bits even though I said I already had them and just needed a quote for the labour. His quote was £50 for the front brakes fitted. Same price for the rears and £50 for the front spring so £150 all in.
2) limp it the mile back to my friends garage and get him to fit but risk more damage to the front tyre
3) get a quote from another friendly garage down the road who I have used before that also recover the car to their premises but I suspect this will be the most expensive option.
Do the quotes for the initial mobile mechanic seem OK or should I keep looking
Thank you
James
I've been tasked with selling my dad's car since he's given up caravanning after his stroke and he's got a camper van now. Car in question is a 2014 Ssanyong Korando.
He lives an hour away but came round yesterday to leave the car with me so I could sell it. It needed four new tyres which I got fitted at a garage I've been going too for years
However, when fitting the tyres, he gave me part of the drivers side front spring which was knackered. He couldn't get the part and said to be careful driving it home. It also needs discs and pads all round.
100 yards down the road there was a loud bang and a grinding noise. On pulling over, the spring had snapped and was jammed against the inside of the tyre. I had no breakdown cover as it wasn't my car so opted to crawl the car the mile home as I couldn't leave it where it was.
Managed to get it home, hopefully it's done no damage to the tyre but it is what it is. I've managed to get the parts off someone on the Ssanyong owners club who runs a parts place. Front spring was just over £100, front discs and pads just over £100 and rear discs and pads just over £100. Didn't think that was too bad.
Now I needed to get the bits fitted, and for this, I have three options.
1) mobile mechanic - for this I again turned to local Facebook and asked if there was any mobile mechanics. I got a response from one and asked him to quote me. He seems eager to sell me the bits even though I said I already had them and just needed a quote for the labour. His quote was £50 for the front brakes fitted. Same price for the rears and £50 for the front spring so £150 all in.
2) limp it the mile back to my friends garage and get him to fit but risk more damage to the front tyre
3) get a quote from another friendly garage down the road who I have used before that also recover the car to their premises but I suspect this will be the most expensive option.
Do the quotes for the initial mobile mechanic seem OK or should I keep looking
Thank you
James
Mave said:
Has your friendly garage got a recovery truck? If its only a mile they might not charge you to collect the car. If not, I'd be going with the mobile guy just to get it done. Brake and springs shouldn't be hard.
Yes they have. I think best thing to do is pop up there after work and get them to quote me, and see whats what.The mobile guy i found on facebook has availability this weekend, but he always seems to be touting for business on there. Good mobile mechanics are generally very busy, so makes me a bit wary but i didnt think £150 was too bad. I'll get a quote from the proper garage this afternoon, and if its loads more, i'll trust the mobile mechanic but the garage that would recover it, would also be doing the MOT on it that it needs, but the catch is, the airbag light is also on so thats something else that needs looking at, but i'm thinking if the garage can recover the car, fix everything and get it through an MOT, i can then sell it. we'll see!
Local friendly garage has said he will do me a fair deal on the labour as I've been going there for years.
He said £220 for fitment of all the brakes front and rear, plus the new spring. MOT for £40.
He said he'd only charge around £20 for recovery as he will have to borrow a friend's trailer.
Although today's new problem is that between Tuesday night and tonight, it's dumped all its bloody coolant too 🤬
What should have been four tyres and an MOT is turning into a nightmare!
He said £220 for fitment of all the brakes front and rear, plus the new spring. MOT for £40.
He said he'd only charge around £20 for recovery as he will have to borrow a friend's trailer.
Although today's new problem is that between Tuesday night and tonight, it's dumped all its bloody coolant too 🤬
What should have been four tyres and an MOT is turning into a nightmare!
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