01-05-2012, 10:03 AM
Long story short over the weekend some lovely people tried to steal one of my wheels, but didn't get the whole way. I drove the car not knowing the nuts were loose - and as a result my wheel departed the vehicle leaving me with half a disc left.
My experience with doing things to cars is next to nothing, and I am a bit wary about going ahead and doing something to the brakes - but I've been to KwikFit (they were literally 2 minutes walk from where it happened) and was quoted £221 for the discs & pads + labour.
I tried another garage that my girlfriend's dad did a bit of work for (valet work - so I can't ask him to replace the parts as he's as clueless as me) if they would allow me to supply the parts with them to do the labour - obviously that wasn't going to happen as they would be losing too much money.
So it looks like I'm going to have to do it myself to avoid extortionate garage part prices + labour.
I've found two different sizes of brake disc, 247 and 266 - I'm assuming I need to do a match on that and measure the one that is still whole.
Is anyone able to give me a decent walk through on how to go about doing this, or just a picture of the section in Haynes (i've lost mine).
Either that or someone around the Portsmouth/Chichester area that can do it for a bit of cash.
It's a 98 D Turbo S
Cheers
My experience with doing things to cars is next to nothing, and I am a bit wary about going ahead and doing something to the brakes - but I've been to KwikFit (they were literally 2 minutes walk from where it happened) and was quoted £221 for the discs & pads + labour.
I tried another garage that my girlfriend's dad did a bit of work for (valet work - so I can't ask him to replace the parts as he's as clueless as me) if they would allow me to supply the parts with them to do the labour - obviously that wasn't going to happen as they would be losing too much money.
So it looks like I'm going to have to do it myself to avoid extortionate garage part prices + labour.
I've found two different sizes of brake disc, 247 and 266 - I'm assuming I need to do a match on that and measure the one that is still whole.
Is anyone able to give me a decent walk through on how to go about doing this, or just a picture of the section in Haynes (i've lost mine).
Either that or someone around the Portsmouth/Chichester area that can do it for a bit of cash.
It's a 98 D Turbo S
Cheers