All original brake discs and pads at 70k which will need changing at next service

Sorry, but you are a bit out of touch. Labour in many dealers is more than £90/hr.

Apparently so! How they can justify that when independents are charging £50 to £60 I will never know. Why anyone would pay that I will never know!

Perhaps its the fact I'm looking at those pictures on my phone but that looks like a car that has been sitting for a few days. Or was that after it has been driven?

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No the car is sitting on a Dealers Forecourt waiting to be sold, new car with 300 miles,

sitting for many many days and will get sold at 3 months old. Just one of many.

It could get taken for a drive, someone would need to come and show interest in it.

(Obviously the car would need taken quickly out for a quick use of the brakes to clean that up before you let a prospective customer step in with you for a road test.)

Many others Demos or Used  sitting for months not selling al, over the country look like that..

They may get a service before sale, hand over & Discs Skimmed if required.

 

I have plenty of pictures of VAG discs before and after Skimmed, just my own ones. 

8 month old ones that look like they are years old, but thats par for the course when little used.

Why low mileage cars can cost a buyer money, cars need driven and used.

 

george

The bill basically read:

Labour: £145.00

Parts:    £266.09

VAT:     £82.22

 

That totals £493.31

but the charge for the initial checkover (£48.72) was then deducted.

 

Getting a local non franchised garage that I could trust is not easy.

 

On a different tact entirely most of our previous vehicles were low mileage & BMW, Audi, Subaru. Jeep & even FIAT didn't need discs & pads at such low mileage or time scale.

The replacement discs might actually last better than the originals removed, or maybe will be the same.

 

For some cars you get replacement disc as cheap as £20 a disc, that show no corrosion after months of sitting and 

thenmuch more Expensive ones for the same vehicle that show surface corrosion over night, and are grinding after sitting a day or 2 until you clear the surface corrosion with using the brakes.

 

Not all VAG vehicles discs are bad, but they are becoming more commonly so on various models.

Not necessarily the cheaper in the range.

 

Recently some new Subaru Calipers and discs are rusting before the car ever gets delivered to its new owner,

Sometimes you will see sister cars like Hyundai & Kia sitting new and yet un-driven on the forecourt, same mechanics, and some showing corrosion and some totally clean and shiny.

 

george

Breckie,

 What Area are you in, & was that a AC Garage that charged $444.59 for doing your brakes.?

 

george

The technology changes.  The removal of asbestos from pads for example, put the mockers on all sorts of received wisdom re brakes.

 

Maybe you are older now.  Driving and use patterns may have changed.  Inactivity can cause a dusting of surface corrosion to develop into something more malign.

 

Most vehicles are not designed for low mileage.  Take the exhaust as an example.  Long journeys will minimise the amount of corrosive by-products laying about in your system.  Short journeys will do the opposite.  Result more likely to require replacement.   Similar arguments will apply to many systems/parts of the vehicle.

What Area are you in, & was that a AC Garage that charged $444.59 for doing your brakes.?.......Perthshire. Skoda dealer.

 

Maybe you are older now.....Yep...I found that getting younger was more difficult.  

 

Driving and use patterns may have changed.....Nope  

If T&P which is part of the John Clark Motor Group which also has Skoda Specialist cars in Dundee & Aberdeen,

i would possibly be questioning how much they charged, just to be sure they were actually accurate on the charges.

(Mistakes happen, some places they happen a bit too often.)

If some place else i would still ask them to go over the invoice again.

 

george

Apparently so! How they can justify that when independents are charging £50 to £60 I will never know. Why anyone would pay that I will never know!

Main Dealers often provide things like "free" wash and valet of your car, while it's in their hands.  The guys who do all those other little tasks don't work for nothing :wonder:   Dealer has to make up the costs they are "not charging" your for, by charging extra for the jobs they do charge on. Sounds double Dutch, but then so are charges. 

Edited 13 September, 201312 yr by FlintstoneR1

I think but not 100% sure that the discs and pads on my Yeti are original, car has done 93,000 miles.  I asked for a full print out of all work carried out by the Dealer and there is no mention of pads or discs, if this is the case then they last well.

Main Dealers often provide things like "free" wash and valet of your car, while it's in their hands.  The guys who do all those other little tasks don't work for nothing :wonder:   Dealer has to make up the costs they are "not charging" your for, by charging extra for the jobs they do charge on. Sounds double Dutch, but then so are charges. 

 

Purely as an aside I asked specifically for the vehicle NOT to be washed & in addition left a note in the vehicle. I've seen how they wash cars & they aint getting at my nicely prepped bodywork. Didn't get a discount though.