Hi all,

just joined. I drive an Octavia estate as a private hire vehicle so I'm packing on the miles. Just put it in for an oil change, mot, and brake pads. Comes back with a quote £460 for pads, discs, c.v. gaiter. Does this sound like too much? Guess the gaiter will add an hours labour so £80 labour there, but still seems too much to me. What do you think?

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Hi and welcome aboard.

If this is ALL round, then its not too bad, but would shop around, like we all have to do nowadays.

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I changed all the discs and pads on SWMBO's MK5 Golf (same chassis as your Octavia) by shopping around I got the parts for about £120ish IIRC (Mintex), then you have £25ish for a genuine VAG CV gaiter, any competent mechanic should be able to change the lot in under 2hrs I recon,

So even if the parts came to around £200 (as they wont shop around for the parts - BUT will get them at trade prices) and they charged you 3 hrs labour they are charging roughly £85 per hour labour, this can be brought down drastically IMO.

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