Kwik Fit Free Brake Test - Outcome = 350 Oh my god pounds

All_eBayed_Out

Had a brake test on my little 206 because the brakes havn't felt very good recently. They squeel a bit when I brake sometimes, but its been doing that for ages. They told me that the back was the problem. I need drums, cylinders and bearings. This would be £350 with them.
:eek:
I got a quote elsewhere for £180. KF wouldnt price match and they didnt understand how I got it so cheap and that it can't be correct or the same as the work they would do. Any advice please? Im a bit confused!

wishiwasarichgirl

get a third quote just to be sure.
I imagine KF nearly always find something wrong during the "free test" and just hope you'll pay their over-inflated prices to fix it.

(cynical... me? )

mrbadexample

Kwik-fit are jokers. Use them for the free tests, and nothing more. Go elsewhere to (a) check that the work actually needs doing, and (b), save a fortune.

custardy

this is how they make money,more so for those unfortunate enough to know little about mechanics.
last time i had a run in with kwik fit was when my handbrake cable went.i had hurt my back so swung in for a 'quick' repair.
once underneath they started listing it needing new discs etc etc which i knew it didnt.
so i asked for them to put in writing that it needed discs and to mark who inspected the discs and what the discs had been measured at.
they refused and also refused to repair the cable as the car was 'unsafe'
2 years later those discs still didnt need replaced

Browntoa

I've had Kwik Fit diagnose "dangerous suspension" that must be sorted now......3 weeks after it passed the MOT when my ex-wife took the car in for a tyre

I'd rather drive on 3 wheels tha go into one again !!

Conor_3

I replaced the front discs and pads on my Mondeo this week. Sum total, £49.

bambammy

I had a similar problem, just a month after my car was MOT'd. Took it in for a free break check, to be told if the brakes were illegal, by law they couldn't put them back on and would have to replace them.

There's no such thing as a free lunch.

Took it to another garage to get a second opinion ( my usual mechanic was away for a 2 week holiday to Walt Disney US, and I was dubious of the job he'd done on my MOT ) and right enough, he confirmed that it was the wheel bearing and not the brakes.
To make matters worse! It already paid my usual mechanic to replace and fix the bearing.

The car seized, took it to another mechanic to fix the wheel bearing problem, and according to him, it was a death trap, but who knows. This was 40days after it'd been MOT'd.

Rang trading standards said I wouldn't have a leg to stand on. I should never have got it fixed, if I was to prove my case. " receipts for the same job 40 days apart meant nothing.

These people can have your head over a barrel!

amcluesent

LOL KF. Was it on this board a poster gave the tale of KF offering their usual "it's a death trap" story - until he showed them the receipts for them fitting the new shock-absorbers a few months previously.:D

tomstickland

need drums, cylinders and bearings.

That'd cost about, oh, £30 for the drums, £70 for the cylinders, £40 for the bearings. So about £140 of parts tops. 2 hours work to fit, say another £90.
Assuming it all needs doing. Kwik fit are very good at finding faults. Like the leaking damper that is only 2 months old.

Go to a smaller garage and get an opinion.

Stephen_Leak

tomstickland wrote: »

Kwik fit are very good at finding faults. Like the leaking damper that is only 2 months old.

Didn't they get caught squirting oil onto them to make it look like they were leaking? Then they did it on car that had been fitted with gas-filled shock absorbers.

SUESMITH_2

please please dont go there - find yourself a small independant garage - ask your friends where they take their car and go.