Hi there,

Are there any decent Skoda or VW service and repair garages in East London or in Cambridge as I commute between the 2 locations. I have a brake issue, grinding noise and ABS lights has come on.

Need someone who is reputable and reliable. This happened after I took it to a local garage in Forest Gate and it got worse since then.

DistantCloud

Edited 27 August, 202527 Aug by DistantCloud

If the ABS light is on and there is a grinding noise it might be better not to drive car any distance until checked properly. For brakes etc it doesnt have to be a VW/Skoda specialist. Any decent garage would be able to diagnose and fix. Someone on here may be able to reccomend a decent independant garage in either preferably london as its closer to you or cambridge.

Alasdair

Sounds like you have removed the pad lining so this might also cost you a set of discs as well, it beats me that they only put one pad wear sensor on the front and none on the rear, recently had an issue where as the rear disc brake stated making a grinding noise we drove home and on inspection the outer lining on the pad had delaminateed so car was braking on the metal backing pad when the other pads were checked there was a good 5 mm of pad left on them it looked like a bad bonding of the lining which was reported to Skoda but because it had been serviced by myself they were not interesyed so won't be buying genuine disc pads from Skoda dealers again now using mintex pads oh and yes the slide pins were NOT stuck nor the caliper piston all free and working as every 2 year pad change they are stripped and re-greased , the pads in question were 14 months old and had covered around 13 000 miles, i did take them back to the Skoda dealers I bought them from but as I had lost the reciept they were not interested and did say 12 months or 12000 miles warranty only but not great for a set of pads that cost over £85 a set

I've used these before and they're good :

https://westsidemotors.co.uk/