Brake issue or not?

[Sideways Tim]

Local garage serviced a mates car and came up with this

'discs 28mm new allowed wear 2mm usable 0.02. pads below wear limits'

Can you decipher it as I'm a bit confused...

[Haltamer]

At a guess, They've used 1.98mm and only 0.02mm remains usable? (Within the 2mm service limit)

Though that's a bloody accurate calliper; You think they'd say "Brake discs buggered"

Pads below service limit too; So I'd say yes - Discs and pads needed

[Sideways Tim]

Cheers. That was kind of what I was thinking but the wording made me wonder...

[ashenfie]

Agree with that summary. Basically not enough Disc to last till the next inspection/service

[seabod91]

Not Halfords by any chance ?

[Sideways Tim]

No, it was a main dealer though. New pads all round and front discs now sorted.

[Who me ?]

Something I've seen on MOT since car was young enough to have MOT. Then again it cropped up at 55k. So I got a copy of Haynes and a micrometer. I placed spacers between the measurement legs and Zeroed the measurement, then measured the discs at several points on the discs. On mine - new discs= 22mm.Min=19mm. Mine = 21. Since the little man with hammer(AKA MOT TESTER) is not allowed to do any testing, this opinion is without verification. I did ask a breakdown bloke at one time and in his( breakdown ) opinion, the advisory was due to the unswept part of the disk being rusty, possibly a ploy to get more work like changing adiscs.