Would you let ATS near your brakes on TT with PCCB

[etlprws]

I need new pads on the front of my 996TTS with PCCB. Is this an OPC / specialist only job or would your local ATS or similar be able to do it (safely)?

ATS offer free brake pad replacement for life...which could be quite good given how quick you can get through them!

OPC want £450+.

Any experience / thoughts?

Thanks
Peter

[turbo-ww]

You is a comedian, right....

[GreigM]

Changing pads is a piece of piss - any mechanic with half a clue could change them and if you're at all useful with a spanner you could do it yourself..you certainly don't need to go to Porsche. Thing with pads as well is there's no real way to mess it up - you'd know the first time you pressed the pedal if something wasn't right.

[clubsport]

Real care is needed with pccb...an errant spanner or wheel rim hitting one can take a small chip/chunk out of a disc...it may make sense to have an opc or Porsche specialist look at them, because they may at least be aware of this potential problem.

[911wise]

I hear they do a triple bypass on the cheap to. Would you trust them for that?

[spenny_b]

clubsport said:

Real care is needed with pccb...an errant spanner or wheel rim hitting one can take a small chip/chunk out of a disc...it may make sense to have an opc or Porsche specialist look at them, because they may at least be aware of this potential problem.

What CS said ^^^

Wouldn't even dream of it, tbh.

[gfreeman]

clubsport said:

Real care is needed with pccb...an errant spanner or wheel rim hitting one can take a small chip/chunk out of a disc...it may make sense to have an opc or Porsche specialist look at them, because they may at least be aware of this potential problem.

Well I'm damn sure I would take more care than some spotty spanner monkey.

[SpydieNut]

etlprws said:

I need new pads on the front of my 996TTS with PCCB. Is this an OPC / specialist only job or would your local ATS or similar be able to do it (safely)?

ATS offer free brake pad replacement for life...which could be quite good given how quick you can get through them!

OPC want £450+.

Any experience / thoughts?

Thanks
Peter

i don't even own a porsche - let alone one with PCCBs and your post gives *me* the willies just thinking about it

[sportsandclassic]

As said above very delicate the pccb brakes ....they can chip very easily and a disc was around 2500 pounds last time i checked !

Get a porsche specialist to change the pads and you will be fine......do not let quick fit/ats near the thing....you must need some kind of medical help to even consider that question.....


mike

[etlprws]

Thanks....I consider myself well and truely told!

Having scanned a few other threads I now think that the disks themselves don't look too hot!! :-(

I think that my OPC MD must be looking forward to taking delivery of his new Sunseeker....given the amount of cash I am spanking on this car!

[Crimp a Length]

I let these guys loose to fix the brakes on her indoors A4 cabriolet a couple of years back, never again enough said.

[DanH]

Well you could always get a decent Indy to do it. With PCCB you will find to aluminium pins in the bonnet tool compartment. These are to protect your PCCB. You take out two opposing wheel bolts to start off with and screw these in. This then means you can slide the wheel off over them rather than it dropping onto the disk if you just undo the bolts and don't catch it carefully enough.

If your PCCB are really on the way out, you may as well take the car to an Indy that can sell you steel replacements unless you fancy trying a warranty claim against Porsche or paying whatever it is they charge per corner now.

[johnfm]

Why is everyone so spanner-shy. An idiot with a blindfold* could change brake pads on any car - PCCB or not.

Don't believe the hype! However, Mike at SPorts&classics would also do a great job, as would many other indies in the UK.

• A decent set of tools and a modicum of intelligence help.