New brakes all round - that's £600 please

Trebor16

MiddleWill wrote: »

I don't think I'll be confident enough or have the time to do it myself this time. But I'm going to research it for the next time. I'm due a brake fluid service in April and according to them it's £109.......

Something tells me it would be cheaper doing myself?!

Your service plan should include a brake fluid change at the next service. If you look at the VW fixed price service menu they quote £59 for the brake fluid change on its own.

s_b

MiddleWill wrote: »

I don't think I'll be confident enough or have the time to do it myself this time. But I'm going to research it for the next time. I'm due a brake fluid service in April and according to them it's £109.......

Something tells me it would be cheaper doing myself?!

unfortunately not its a vw
its highly likely you wont be able to do a brake bleed without dealer level tools vw's have enough problems on their abs systems without a novice hacking away
maybe next time dont go vw is my advice they might clunk with a nice thud when you shut the door because they have plenty of acoustic rubbish in the door frames but they are still a eurobox under the shine;)

not being negative by the way just saying how it is

Road_Hog

s_b wrote: »

unfortunately not its a vw
its highly likely you wont be able to do a brake bleed without dealer level tools vw's have enough problems on their abs systems without a novice hacking away
maybe next time dont go vw is my advice they might clunk with a nice thud when you shut the door because they have plenty of acoustic rubbish in the door frames but they are still a eurobox under the shine;)

not being negative by the way just saying how it is

They've also bigged themselves up in the reliability stakes ever since the '80s. The reality is completely different, they don't feature well in the reliability charts.