Is this a fair price, or a rip off?
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blueg33 said:
Am I alone in only having good experiences of the fast fitting place in question?
Not all good, but mostly. In fact my worst ever experience at a garage was in a £120 per hour "Official" Porsche dealer, so price/brand/prestige does not guarantee a better job.Brakes are generally simple to do, and its easy to spot if it went wrong, so simple that even a "thick s
t fitter" should manage it....http://shop.ebay.co.uk/?_from=R40&_trksid=p398...
Sounds about right to me looking at the prices on fleabay for pads. It's 0.9 hours according to Autodata for labour.
Dickfit also do that stupid lifetime guarantee on the pads don't they ?
I would expect your friend to need new discs (3 hours labour to fit), at least one shock and no doubt at least 2 tyres will be 'near the legal limit'
Jimmyarm said:
http://shop.ebay.co.uk/?_from=R40&_trksid=p398...
Sounds about right to me looking at the prices on fleabay for pads. It's 0.9 hours according to Autodata for labour.
Dickfit also do that stupid lifetime guarantee on the pads don't they ?
I would expect your friend to need new discs (3 hours labour to fit), at least one shock and no doubt at least 2 tyres will be 'near the legal limit'
See if you'd ever worked in a kwik fit, and I've worked in 10-15, you'd know that the consequences of overselling far outweigh the benefits, so no one bothers any more.Sounds about right to me looking at the prices on fleabay for pads. It's 0.9 hours according to Autodata for labour.
Dickfit also do that stupid lifetime guarantee on the pads don't they ?
I would expect your friend to need new discs (3 hours labour to fit), at least one shock and no doubt at least 2 tyres will be 'near the legal limit'
ESPECIALLY with brakes, brake work is so closely audited that there is probably no chance of getting away with any wrong doing, and the majority of customer expect you to over sell, so you have to be able to justify your decision to any customer, regardless of their technical knowledge, so again, its not worth trying.
Awaits ill-informed stories of "my mate said this" "my dad said that" "they told my missus this".
and £100 fitted for a set of brake pads is perfectly fine considering they will replace them everytime they wear out for as long as you own the car.
Had a woman with a B reg fiesta she'd owned from new who used to visit a centre i worked in. She'd had about 15 sets of brake pads free of charge. Probably paid £20 for her pads in the first place, if that.
Had a woman with a B reg fiesta she'd owned from new who used to visit a centre i worked in. She'd had about 15 sets of brake pads free of charge. Probably paid £20 for her pads in the first place, if that.
deveng said:
See if you'd ever worked in a kwik fit, and I've worked in 10-15, you'd know that the consequences of overselling far outweigh the benefits, so no one bothers any more.
ESPECIALLY with brakes, brake work is so closely audited that there is probably no chance of getting away with any wrong doing, and the majority of customer expect you to over sell, so you have to be able to justify your decision to any customer, regardless of their technical knowledge, so again, its not worth trying.
Awaits ill-informed stories of "my mate said this" "my dad said that" "they told my missus this".
We have one down the road from where I work and quite frequently get people in who have been advised they need xyz doing on their car after having a tyre done. 7 times out of 10 they don't.ESPECIALLY with brakes, brake work is so closely audited that there is probably no chance of getting away with any wrong doing, and the majority of customer expect you to over sell, so you have to be able to justify your decision to any customer, regardless of their technical knowledge, so again, its not worth trying.
Awaits ill-informed stories of "my mate said this" "my dad said that" "they told my missus this".
Perhaps its not the same for all of this chains branches but their reputation certainly proceeds them
deveng said:
Tango13 said:
Depending on how old the Volvo is it may be a back to dealer job anyway, on the later ones you can't wind the brake caliper pistons back in without the correct diagnostic software 
the world and his mate have that.....There is a diagnostic specialist near me who lets all the local mechanics know when he'll be renting the package and they all take Volvos to him for a few days.
blueg33 said:
Am I alone in only having good experiences of the fast fitting place in question?
No but watch them like a hawk, question everything. I usually explain I'd do it myself but am several thousand miles away from my garage (which is true if I'm using kwikFUK). Then hang around, like a fart in a lift, watching while they do the work.That way you don't end up with the YTS boy screwing with your car.
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