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<blockquote data-quote="Eamonn" data-source="post: 3979178" data-attributes="member: 37432"><p>Sorry Primaris, I didn't mean to overlook your reply.</p><p></p><p> The beef I have is my wife's car went in for warranty service (60,000 Km) and in addition to the usual stuff, they give the brakes the going over. I'm figuring pads- big deal. We got hit with a bill for over $850.00 CDN. This bill included an additional charge for only the rear brakes- the next service they're gearing up to change the front brakes which will cost over 600bucks more? Not in this lifetime- I'll buy the parts and install them myself. By Ford not informing me of this little item, I'll keep them out of the loop whereever I can, and I told them so. Anyway, the brakes are not a warranty item any longer on this car. If there's another option to source parts, I'd like to know about them. </p><p> I'm old school. I am a mechanic with a machinists background, only I do industrial stuff and I can fabricate stuff that I can't find because I have the means to do it. I used to mod and race cars and motorcycles for a hobby, but I gave it up for aircraft, so my focus;-) on cars isn't what it used to be. I used to resurface my car rotors by machining up an arbor for the rotor and turning them down on a lathe. I used to like the heavy vented rotors because I could turn them down quite a bit before I hit the service tolerances. Sometimes if the castings were good I'd try to go a little further knowing that the tolerances were calculated with safety margins, but I'll deny I said that;-) and I wouldn't go that far on one of these cars, from what I've seen there just isn't enough there to work with. Maybe aftermarket is different and will be more familiar to me. </p><p> </p><p> My wife is a school teacher and drives like a grandmother, but she likes sportcars. In this case I feel the wear is premature although I haven't put a micrometer to the rotors left in her trunk. I expect better from the cars I own. My car is at half the milage so I have time to plan on what I want to do when my turn is up. I like the idea of a tuner car, but I'm going to do it my way for the price I'm willing to pay- in reality, I'd rather push the savings at my plane. Now that's a rush. <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite8" alt=":D" title="Big Grin :D" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":D" /> </p><p></p><p> E</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Eamonn, post: 3979178, member: 37432"] Sorry Primaris, I didn't mean to overlook your reply. The beef I have is my wife's car went in for warranty service (60,000 Km) and in addition to the usual stuff, they give the brakes the going over. I'm figuring pads- big deal. We got hit with a bill for over $850.00 CDN. This bill included an additional charge for only the rear brakes- the next service they're gearing up to change the front brakes which will cost over 600bucks more? Not in this lifetime- I'll buy the parts and install them myself. By Ford not informing me of this little item, I'll keep them out of the loop whereever I can, and I told them so. Anyway, the brakes are not a warranty item any longer on this car. If there's another option to source parts, I'd like to know about them. I'm old school. I am a mechanic with a machinists background, only I do industrial stuff and I can fabricate stuff that I can't find because I have the means to do it. I used to mod and race cars and motorcycles for a hobby, but I gave it up for aircraft, so my focus;-) on cars isn't what it used to be. I used to resurface my car rotors by machining up an arbor for the rotor and turning them down on a lathe. I used to like the heavy vented rotors because I could turn them down quite a bit before I hit the service tolerances. Sometimes if the castings were good I'd try to go a little further knowing that the tolerances were calculated with safety margins, but I'll deny I said that;-) and I wouldn't go that far on one of these cars, from what I've seen there just isn't enough there to work with. Maybe aftermarket is different and will be more familiar to me. My wife is a school teacher and drives like a grandmother, but she likes sportcars. In this case I feel the wear is premature although I haven't put a micrometer to the rotors left in her trunk. I expect better from the cars I own. My car is at half the milage so I have time to plan on what I want to do when my turn is up. I like the idea of a tuner car, but I'm going to do it my way for the price I'm willing to pay- in reality, I'd rather push the savings at my plane. Now that's a rush. :D E [/QUOTE]
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