Its not unusual for cars that even have rear discs to also have a "drum" built into the disc for handbrake purposes.
my old 2006 Honda CR-V and my current Disco 4 have that !
Its not unusual for cars that even have rear discs to also have a "drum" built into the disc for handbrake purposes.
His nickname of Dick Turpin is utterly undeserved 👍Working on vehicles for 25+ years myself I can honestly say I've never ripped any off and never will.
I've worked on vehicles where the owner has been ripped off previously and it annoys me as much as them!.
Seems the Motor Trade is all tarred with the same brush unfortunately.
Probably 90% of my work comes from regular repeat customers and you won't get that treating people poorly.
The sweary filter would have exploded if I'd written what I was thinking when I read this. 😂Breakers can be pricy too and pluck prices out of thin air.
I fitted a new window switch to a neighbours Peugeot 407 some years back. A new one from the dealwe was 43 sheets. Pricy, thought I, so I tried a local breakers. 80 quid, they said.
I told them a new one was only 43 and they said theyd match it but no more. I cycled up the road and bought a new one at the dealer by way of a reply.
Indeed, dealers have a rep for pillage, but in my experience the indies and so called specialists can often be just as bad. Offtimes dealers can sometimes be surprisingly inexpensive so when getting prices I always check with them and quite often theyre very competitive. Indeed, in my case Volvo give a lifetime warranty on their parts if fitted at a dealer (normal wear items excluded) which can be very good value in the long term, so I just throw the keys at them now.
You could have done yourself and saved £6?Thought I'd just put this on here, as it's not really worthy of a new thread. I went to a local Halfords this aft' to buy some new wiper blades. £17 a pair, which I suppose is the going rate, but it also cost me £6 for them to fit them for me. Heck, it only took him one minute to do it! I also noticed they charge £18 to fit their batteries, whereas a local car parts/accessories shop charges £5 for them to bring a new battery to you (if you live locally) and to fit it as well.
The local garage i use told me to buy Halfords blades as although they cost more they last longer than cheaper blades. Yes, I could've bought them and asked my local garage to fit them, but while I was there I thought 'oh just pay then it's done'! I look at it positively not negatively. Imagine if I'd fitted them (in a fashion) then one, or both flew off on the way home!You could have done yourself and saved £6?
Halfords has bigger overheads than local place, plus shareholders etc.
Why didn’t you get blades and fitting done locally?
You’re paying for a service, up to you how much you’re prepared to pay for that service (if not willing/able to diy)
You could have done yourself and saved £6?
Thinking about it later, I thought at the time that the blades would be like the last ones I fitted which was probably in the 1990's. Then if I remember rightly you just bought the actual rubber blade and not the frame/holder. I imagined me having to thread the rubber blade into the frame with my cold fiddly fingers, then put the frame/holder onto the wiper arms. I saw him just slip the frame/holder onto the arms in less than a minute and thought 'damn, even I could've done that'! The one man band garage I use back home would've done that for me for free. Ah well, another lesson in the school of experience, as my dad used to say.Knowing Halfords they probably fitted Accy's new wipers to his wheels.