on car brake disc skimmer needed in yorkshire

[mar1b0ro]

My brakes are in need of a skimming but after taking them to my local guy who does brake skimming whilst the discs are still on the car, he tells me they are too big for his machine. They are 355mm discs but there must be places that do this size. does anyone know of anywhere near leeds, bradford, harrogate area that does this, i dont mind driving a few miles to get it sorted as long as my teeth dont all fall out with the juddering..

[HellDiver]

Why not take the disc off?

[anonymous-user]

My brake discs are 360mm.....

[HellDiver]

Vectra VXR has 345mm discs. It's not that huge.

Heck, even my 1.8 Mondeo has 300mm all round, standard. Same as an E36 M3.

[mar1b0ro]

HellDiver said:

Vectra VXR has 345mm discs. It's not that huge.

Heck, even my 1.8 Mondeo has 300mm all round, standard. Same as an E36 M3.

im not saying that they are huge, i just want to find someone that will do them on the car as its obviously cheaper than taking them off.

[carreauchompeur]

mar1b0ro said:

HellDiver said:

Vectra VXR has 345mm discs. It's not that huge.

Heck, even my 1.8 Mondeo has 300mm all round, standard. Same as an E36 M3.

im not saying that they are huge, i just want to find someone that will do them on the car as its obviously cheaper than taking them off.

Until you've travelled all the way there.... Am I being dense or do they not just bolt off?

[HellDiver]

What? Cheaper than taking them off? The wheel is off already, you need to loosen one bolt, rotate the caliper and lift the disc off. Possibly unscrew a retailing screw. Even I, with rudimentary tools can change a disc in less than 10 mins.

[davepoth]

Unless it's siezed on of course. But that's a bit of a different issue.

[markmullen]

I would love to tell you we (Specialist Cars of Malton) could do them but I don't want to break the forum advertising rules so I won't.

[carreauchompeur]

markmullen said:

I would love to tell you we (Specialist Cars of Malton) could do them but I don't want to break the forum advertising rules so I won't.

Don't tell him your name, Pike!

[mar1b0ro]

markmullen said:

I would love to tell you we (Specialist Cars of Malton) could do them but I don't want to break the forum advertising rules so I won't.

excellent, but imagine if you did provide such a service then how much do you think should it cost..roughly speaking. whats the going rate?

[markmullen]

mar1b0ro said:

markmullen said:

I would love to tell you we (Specialist Cars of Malton) could do them but I don't want to break the forum advertising rules so I won't.

excellent, but imagine if you did provide such a service then how much do you think should it cost..roughly speaking. whats the going rate?

I'll be honest, I have no idea, but in theory I would have thought the workshops on 01653 697722 option 4 would be the men to speak to, Mick or Sam.

[Frederick]

HellDiver said:

What? Cheaper than taking them off? The wheel is off already, you need to loosen one bolt, rotate the caliper and lift the disc off. Possibly unscrew a retailing screw. Even I, with rudimentary tools can change a disc in less than 10 mins.

You sure about that?

Remove the caliper, remove the pads, remove the caliper carrier - that's at least four bolts straight away. Not to factor in rusty retaining screws on the disc, the possibility of cross threading the bolt, strictly speaking needing new bolts for the caliper to carrier, if the garage feels particularly evil they could charge for bleeding the brake system afterwards if they remove the caliper rather than hang it.

[davepoth]

On the last car I looked at, the disc was only held to the hub by an allen headed screw, all the other fixing was by the wheel bolts. The caliper could I believe be left on as the disc could be removed from the hub at an angle.

[RayOwram]

Hi, I am new to the forum and noticed this topic. I can probably help out and I am in the Wakefield area, drop me an e mail if you haven't found someone as yet

[Noesph]

how do you skim it on the car?

[mike9009]

RayOwram said:

Hi, I am new to the forum and noticed this topic. I can probably help out and I am in the Wakefield area, drop me an e mail if you haven't found someone as yet

I would hope after two years the OP would have the problem solved!!

[Mr2Mike]

Frederick said:

You sure about that?

Remove the caliper, remove the pads, remove the caliper carrier - that's at least four bolts straight away. Not to factor in rusty retaining screws on the disc, the possibility of cross threading the bolt, strictly speaking needing new bolts for the caliper to carrier, if the garage feels particularly evil they could charge for bleeding the brake system afterwards if they remove the caliper rather than hang it.

Carrier may or may not need to come off, it's possible to remove the disc on some cars with taking it off. Either way it's hardly an arduous or lengthy task, baring extreme corrosion welding the disc in place.