Mondeo break pads

mikey72

taffy056 wrote: »

Those quotes you had are grossly inflated prices, really £20-£25 for the pads from a motor factor or eBay, and the same for someone to fit it, it takes 10-15 minutes to do both sides, if you friendly with a taxi driver ask where they go, they certainly don't spend the amounts you've been asked.

benham3160 wrote: »

I'd just take it anywhere to be honest, it's a pad change, you'd have to be going some to get it wrong.

Mobile mechanics are always forgotten, but you might find it a lot cheaper to get a bloke with a tatty old Escort van round and do them on your driveway. Either that or ask your friends and relatives, you mind find somebody who'd be willing to change them for a few beers, it's really not rocket science.....

...or buy a Haynes manual:T

In defense (!?) of Ford, the pads will be considerably dearer as they are OE, I'd wager the padset is around £50-£60 retail.

Regards,
Andy

I wish I knew someone that could do it in ten minutes.
Takes nearly that long to get it in from the yard, jack it up and get the wheel off normally.
My last ones took just over an hour for both, and I was lazy and let the garage do it. I know it was over an hour, I was there.
One of the pistons didn't want to wind back in, it took ages to get a bite on it.
If you go down the mate route, they'll need the tool to wind in the pistons too, or you'll need to buy one, so it makes a garage look good at £80 when it's all finished.

jd82

I've paid £60 for pads and £100 for discs and pads including labour. Be careful where you get them though, there are lot of fakes about.

Hammyman

£60 for rear pads supplied and fitted by my favourite garage. That wasn't the cheapest quote they gave but I didn't want cheapo brake pads. Breaks down as roughly £20 for the pads and £40 (1hr min charge) labour.

taffy056

benham3160 wrote: »

I highly doubt there are many out there who can do both sides in ten minutes!

Book time is 36 minutes.

Regards,
Andy

Well the guy I use to change mine takes about 10-15 mins for both sides, he must be superman then really it will take about that, garages like to charge by the hour and try to justify it by taking their time, I would never take my car to garage that charges more than £50-£60 to change the pads, because they put patent parts on that can be picked up from a factors cheaply, and the labour should be for 30 mins max

tekie

I've got no plans to do it myself coz I don't even know how to get my tyres off to begin with. So the garage will be my only option.

Is there any website where I can find independant garages in my area ?

hartcjhart

what garage did the MOT, did they not give a quote

taffy056

tekie wrote: »

I've got no plans to do it myself coz I don't even know how to get my tyres off to begin with. So the garage will be my only option.

Is there any website where I can find independant garages in my area ?

Try the yellow pages for garages, or do a search on google for garages or brakes plus your town name, but as mentioned try asking friends, family and neighbours, somebody will recommend someone.

jonnyd281

taffy056 wrote: »

Well the guy I use to change mine takes about 10-15 mins for both sides, he must be superman then really it will take about that, garages like to charge by the hour and try to justify it by taking their time, I would never take my car to garage that charges more than £50-£60 to change the pads, because they put patent parts on that can be picked up from a factors cheaply, and the labour should be for 30 mins max

Are they doing a decent (and safe) job of it? When I had a motorcycle it used to take me more than 15 minutes per set, and I didn't have to take the wheel off to do them.

taffy056

jonnyd281 wrote: »

Are they doing a decent (and safe) job of it? When I had a motorcycle it used to take me more than 15 minutes per set, and I didn't have to take the wheel off to do them.

Fitting brake pads can only go on one way, the guy I use has a van and comes to you, he services and fixes about 25 taxis for some friends with a cab company, he is vat registered and gives receipts, also I have never heard of anyone complaining about his work, or his prices as he is real fair and doesn't over charge.

tekie

I tried ringing some of my local garages, and the prices were around £80ish, but Formula One Autocentre's offer was the best one £57.50 for the rear pads. I took the car and got it done but ended up changing front pads as well, and the Front discs were worn out as well and the disc were £55.

All in all pretty good service, everything was done under an hour and they even showed me the discs and the worn out pads it had...I'm very impressed by their service, will definitely go back for my tyres in the next couple of weeks. And they do offer price matching as well.