Remind me why I employ you??....

[High Tower]

So one of the cretins that work for me has a vivaro, bit like mine, just not the sportive, and a year older, I took his van on Friday to go get lunch as it was blocking mine in.

The scrubbing noise from the back brakes was un-believable!!, assuming it needed pads, it was safe to say the discs would be scrap too by the noise.......

"Oh yeah" he says, been like that since before Xmas!. My reply was ... You having a laugh, or words to that effect. I told him to get the bits and as we were both on nights In London last night, I'd do it for him today as a favour when I got up!, considering he contacts to me and does about 30k a year I felt a bit responsible for his safety!.

And boy did I wish I never offered, how any one can drive a vehicle in this state is beyond me!

 

[Robotstar5]

Did you check the front discs too?

 

[mobile]

Mine goes into vauxhall at the weekend to have brakes done (they're not as bad as those)
How much would you charge to do it!!!!

 

[dan86]

it would shock me if I didn't see this sort of thing on a daily basis. at least he got his money's worth outa the last set!

 

[High Tower]

Did you check the front discs too?

Yea his fronts are ok, apparently his father in law did em last summer!, he obv diddnt think to check the backs!.

 

[plugsandsparks]

Looks half worn to me, angle grinder and one new pad, jobs a good un.

 

[Darkwood]

Just a bit of surface wear ...what's the issue, the tree will stop you anyway the brakes are just to give you time to pray

 

[High Tower]

Mine goes into vauxhall at the weekend to have brakes done (they're not as bad as those)
How much would you charge to do it!!!!

I'll warn you the back disks are expensive!, the come with the wheel baring and the ABS ring, to do them isn't a massive job, if I took it into my best mates garage and did it on a ramp it would have been half hour a side tops, but he had got all the surrounding components so hot all the bolts were siezed!.

It's not really a job you could do at home as the hubs, according to Auto data have to be torqued to 280NM and there's not many people with a torque wrench at home that will do much more than 200

 

[High Tower]

Looks half worn to me, angle grinder and one new pad, jobs a good un.

Lol

 

[Resu]

You've done a good job there mate. How anyone could drive it it with the brakes in that condition is beyond me!

 

[tidyboiler]

This reminds me when I worked as a prescription delivery driver for the planets largest chain of pharmacies. I was allocated a van that had weird squealing noises coming from the brakes, and discovered they actually didn't work! Miles away from everywhere, my then boss phoned me to demand I hurry up doing my deliveries as the garage was waiting for my van to fit new brakes as they were faulty!!!!!

So he knowingly sent me out with faulty brakes!!! I could have killed myself or an innocent motorist/pedestrian. :66: :dead:

 

[High Tower]

This reminds me when I worked as a prescription delivery driver for the planets largest chain of pharmacies. I was allocated a van that had weird squealing noises coming from the brakes, and discovered they actually didn't work! Miles away from everywhere, my then boss phoned me to demand I hurry up doing my deliveries as the garage was waiting for my van to fit new brakes as they were faulty!!!!!

So he knowingly sent me out with faulty brakes!!! I could have killed myself or an innocent motorist/pedestrian. :66: :dead:

I diddnt think delivery drivers used brakes !

 

[Silly Sausage]

[h=2]Remind me why I employ you??....[/h]
Because I'm an Electrician, not a motor mechanic! :smilielol5:

 

[High Tower]

[h=2]Remind me why I employ you??....[/h]
Because I'm an Electrician, not a motor mechanic! :smilielol5:

I know, says a lot about the convictions of a person tho!

 

[Silly Sausage]

Maybe not conviction.
I like to think that someone who works in a Trade/Technical occupation would have 'some' awareness of other areas outside of their speciality, evidently not!