So car serviced yesterday and a few curious things thrown up that they say need attention but it passed MOT OK.

 

Red Item - Rusting of front brakes "Front brake discs corroded requires replacement with pads"

 

 

£430 to replace...

 

Amber -

 

A/C Service - £159 - I have always viewed A/C services as a bit of a con? - Should I still view it as such?

 

Misting of Oil on both front Shocks £745  to rectify? both front shock absorber light misting of oil

 

 

A new one on me Wishbone unbonding? Cost of £205 to replace? O/S/F suspension lower arm wishbone bush unbonding

 

 

Here is MOT Report

 

 

Edited 2 August, 20232 yr by MJ1

Did MOT take place recently? Thought it would have mentioned the brakes and shocks even if just an advisory.

 

What would I do?  I'd book the car in for a free brake check. But if they did need doing:

 

1: I wouldn't pay Skoda main dealer prices  and

2: Depends how old / what mileage is on your car, but why would I replace crappy discs and pads with the same crappy discs and pads? 

 

At my last services ( 2nd year service at 8000 miles on Kodiaq , and both 2nd and 3rd year service on the karoq ) they told my my discs were showing signs of wear around the edges. Seems std practice with all VW group vehicles.  Of course if the discs are changed the pads need changing too.  Aye right. 

 

I sold the karoq last week. It's now sitting on dealer forecourt and the discs are exactly the same ones they've been advising may need replacing for the past two years.   

 

Walk round any VW Group garage and look at the discs on their VW group used cars. Nuff said. 

MOT done yesterday as part of the Service and MOT in "All in One" package.

 

Car is 5 years old - brakes never changed (I drive gently) and has 46,000 miles

 

I am tempted to leave the brakes as they say nothing about disc depth just that they look rusty...

 

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Leave the shocks as well, bet they still work fine.

The brake disc probably looks the worst of all the things they reported, but the brake efficiency obviously passed mot.

 

The light misting is normal.

 

AC service, I do actually get this done every 3 years (which for me is 60k miles) but many people will have a good argument to say if it works it doesn’t need it. You can buy your own air con aerosol bomb to do the anti bac thing they charge extra for.

 

Wishbone bush passed the mot.

 

I would budget for new front discs and pads maybe next year, and that’s it.

VW issued a bulletin years ago telling dealers that a light misting on shocks was OK - apparently dealers were changing them under warranty.

 

Slightly weirdly while our Tiguan was in at 7yrs old/ 35K miles having a failed glow plug replaced under All In the dealer also replaced the rear shocks.  The apparantly told VW they were leaking so All In covered them.   I looked at the video they sent, and then back at the one from the service 8 mths prior, and they looked exactly the same yet weren't even commented on at service.

 

They nearly always mentioned rust / lip on the edges of the discs, but added that the pads were fine.  So I took that as warming me up for insisting the discs must be replaced when the pads wore out.

My 5 year old 2ltr TDi failed due to disc rusting in March with 32,000 miles on it.

I also have the all in one package, I took it to a local garage for new discs and pads, cost around £190 then my dealer did the retest to pass it.

I had had the cam belt done at the same time!! so a big bill would have been even bigger had the dealer done the discs.

Re brakes, find a nice clear piece of road where you can get up to, say, 60mph and plant your foot on the brake peddle as if Bambi had run out in front of you.  Two or three of those should easily clear a fair bit of the rust off the disks.

 

I’ve got a bit of wobble on mine when braking which is prob warped discs but will wait until they need changed in thickness, which at my present 5k miles/yr might be a while.

Thanks to everyone who has replied I will see what next year brings if I keep the car as planned...

 

Cheers