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Just had my front pads and discs replaced by my local specialists, took him just over an hour to do, labour charge was £45 incl VAT, total price £395 incl VAT including a wash as well!!!

Compare this to my old car (A4 2.5tdi quattro). Just before I bought it, the previous owner had his done at Swindon Audi, just fronts again and it cost £700+.

The mileage on both cars was about 45k and the discs on both had warped, is about 45k standard for this ?

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Just had my front pads and discs replaced by my local specialists, took him just over an hour to do, labour charge was £45 incl VAT, total price £395 incl VAT including a wash as well!!!

Compare this to my old car (A4 2.5tdi quattro). Just before I bought it, the previous owner had his done at Swindon Audi, just fronts again and it cost £700+.

The mileage on both cars was about 45k and the discs on both had warped, is about 45k standard for this ?

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I'm holding out for some of these babies!!!!!! 169144-ok.gif

8 Piston Calipers, 365mm Full Floating Rotors...Direct Swap for all B6/B7 cars. Includes the left and right rotors, calipers and pads: Sexy!!!!

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No more caliper paint!!!! tongue.gif

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Jese, £700 for front discs and pads smashfreakB.gif, I am not looking forward to my next service then in about 2k miles. I need those as well, along with a new cambelt too !

I have done 75k now and I have just started to hear the odd random noise when braking, it does sound as though the discs are slightly warped. Oh well paying the price for loadsa motorway miles ECLIPSe.gifcoffee.gif

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If you've got that money floating around DJBS4 then you could also make a donation to me favourite charity, the Crusade Against Suffering and Hardship known as C.A.S.H.!

Think I'll stick to the ECS disks ScoTTy has when the time comes to change.

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Oh well, just have to wait for IR to cough up the tax they shouldn't have taken off me before investing on new mods. openfire.gif

Sports cats first on Saturday, pedals next. Going slightly off thread v.quickly, where did you get your door trims colour coded DJBS4 and what's the financial damage? beerchug.gif

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I'm holding out for some of these babies! 8 Piston Calipers, 365mm Full Floating Rotors... Direct Swap for all B6/B7 cars. Includes the left and right rotors, calipers and pads.

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They the Audi OE fitment from the (C5) RS6 or something? Seem to recall it also runs 365 mm. Elaborate please!

Ian

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I'm holding out for some of these babies! 8 Piston Calipers, 365mm Full Floating Rotors... Direct Swap for all B6/B7 cars. Includes the left and right rotors, calipers and pads.

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They the Audi OE fitment from the (C5) RS6 or something? Seem to recall it also runs 365 mm. Elaborate please!

Ian

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The ones in the pictures are new RS4. Not sure if they are the same as RS6 but they will replace B6/B7 S4 OEM's......if that indeed pushes one's button wink.gif169144-ok.gif Apparently you are famous Ian_C!!! tongue.gifbowdown.gif

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£700 for just front discs and pads !!

Don't have the paperwork here but I'm sure I only paid £400 for front and rear discs and pads on my A6 2.5Tdi Quattro and that was at Audi ....will have to double check - maybe they screwed up ..

Mind you - just had Audi quote £136 to fit new rear brake pads. Price for pads from Audi is £30.85 ...so over £105 for labour just to fit the pads !!(and that's whilst the car is in having a service as well ..so it's already on the ramps)

And also £182 to fit a front outer CV Boot. The price for that kit is £24 ...so they want nearly £160 labour for a job that is going to cost me about £40 labour at local garage (and another £20 for the pads labour )...

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and that's whilst the car is in having a service as well ..so it's already on the ramps

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But they don't take the wheels off when they do the service, dung.gif or at least they didn't on my A4's first(18k) service. dung.gifdung.gif I took the wheels off to fit my winter tyres a week after the service and the alloys were siezed onto the hubs! fekr.gif So what exactly did they do for their £300??? Look through the alloys and go "yeah, disks and pads are fine buttcheeks.gif". F*&^ me, even I can do that... Stealers! Flush.gif

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What gets me is the variation in pricing...

Initially I thought it must be down to differences in hourly rates as the jobs are all preset but that went out the window when an oil change was £100 more between my two local dealers who are less than 20 miles apart.

Now I think they just make up prices.

Take todays service...annual service was £200, which is £50 less than I paid last year at the alternate local dealers...so I think I'm doing well..

But then cheaper dealer quotes £160 labour to replace offside outer CV Boot...yet last year at more expensive dealer labour was only £80 for the same job on the nearside CV boot....so unless offside is somehow different to nearside they've got to be having a laugh...

Think my time at dealers is over !!.....

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