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adamj
Member Since: 23 Sep 2011
Location: West Yorkshire
Posts: 30
  
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| Brake pad wear - Excessive? |
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Had one of our Disco 4's in the dealer for a service, just done 30,000miles. Dealer has come back to say the rear pads are worn and also scored the disc. Now I tried arguing that there is surley an issue here, in that the low pad light never came on and that the front pads are fine and when I looked at it, it appeard to be just one side that was worn.
Now they agreed to investigate but required me to authorise the strip down, meaning if they didn't find issue, I would have to stand the cost.... hey presto, apparentely everything is as it should be... Which kinda leaves me  and a £400 bill for rear pads and discs...
Should I push it further? Or just stand it...
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 23rd Mar 2015 5:36 pm |
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miko666
Member Since: 16 Sep 2014
Location: liverpool
Posts: 111
 
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It sounds to me as though you have a piston on one of your calipers may be jamming.
This may account for the uneven wear. Also my check brake pads warning never came on until the front pads were worn nearly to the metal backing.
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| 23rd Mar 2015 5:39 pm |
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lynalldiscovery
Member Since: 22 Dec 2009
Location: Maidstone
Posts: 7274
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I would be inclined to say to the dealer no worries I will pop down for a look at the scoring, bet they change their tune there and then!
All discs score and wear that is after all the nature of their business, next time you are shopping look at every car you walk past and you will see what i mean.
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| 23rd Mar 2015 8:30 pm |
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adamj
Member Since: 23 Sep 2011
Location: West Yorkshire
Posts: 30
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Yeh, the piston jamming is what I assumed it would be, not what I would expect from such a new vehicle though.
I decided I had little option but to bite the bullet, when I got down there to pay the bill, they had charged me for 2 discs even though only one had scoring, then the icing on the cake was charging for a wear pad sensor... that had never triggered and had caused the issue in the first place. Needless to say we will not be using Farnell Leeds in the future.
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| 24th Mar 2015 3:12 pm |
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SouthernWombat
Member Since: 30 Aug 2014
Location: Devon
Posts: 224
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My brake wear light came on and I only drove 25 miles before changing, the pad with the indicator was nigh on the metal and the indicator was broken when removed. Very little time is given, but on the other hand full use of the pad!
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| 24th Mar 2015 3:48 pm |
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Dusty
Member Since: 23 Sep 2013
Location: London
Posts: 1022
 
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You should always change discs in pairs so that would be their reason for that.
I would keep a close eye on the wear rate and at the first sign of uneven/excessive wear get them to do something about it. Discovery 4 HSE
SDV6
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| 24th Mar 2015 4:39 pm |
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Washwipe
Member Since: 19 Apr 2013
Location: Bucks Oxon Herts Border
Posts: 3169
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We had new rear pads at 23k
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| 24th Mar 2015 4:45 pm |
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Flack
Member Since: 06 Sep 2006
Location: Preston Lancashire
Posts: 6299
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Most of the time its not the piston that stick's, but the two sliders in the disc carrier. This seems to get missed quite a bit.. I did a D3 the other day had anew epb shoes and pads only a month ago, I found one of the rear sliders stuck solid  .
Flack 
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| 24th Mar 2015 5:53 pm |
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