Thread: PUMA brakes fail rego check ........

Brakes should have been inspected at each service for a new car when was the last service, there may be a problem but not with your car

Originally Posted by THE BOOGER

Brakes should have been inspected at each service for a new car when was the last service, there may be a problem but not with your car

It has been serviced 8 times with only 65,000k's. Last service was at 60,000 during October '13. All work is carried out by a well know Landy specialist and prior to the end of warranty by the dealer.

The rego check was carried at local mechanic not the Landy specialist.

Get a second opinion as in get a rego check done elsewhere and don't tell them that you have already had one done. Only cost you another $36.40.

Originally Posted by Drover

It has been serviced 8 times with only 65,000k's. Last service was at 60,000 during October '13. All work is carried out by a well know Landy specialist and prior to the end of warranty by the dealer.

The rego check was carried at local mechanic not the Landy specialist.

We have a joker on the gold coast that tells people their car is do bad that he cant allow them to drive out of the shop. He tried it on my wife, i shot down there, got the keys and told him to send me a quote on the email or fax. He wouldnt do it as he knows that its a legal document i can use against him if i call "shenanigans" on him. Get another opinion.

I would get another opinion

however you have wrote up there all the things you have checked in relation to your brakes functioning correctly

however you haven't said whether you have actually checked you have meat on your brake bads??

If you have physically checked your pads/discs are not worn I would be going and getting another opinion...

was it his opinion that failed your brakes or his machine?..because my discovery passed the braking test every year and I thought the brakes were terrible! so much so I put defender callipers and discs in and the thing stops like a real car now

Agree, get a second opinion.
My rear rotors were below minimum thickness when I got it, needs a complete overhaul and while it still stops you can tell it needs some work.
Brake place still tested them as being over 90% functional.

or he had a brain fart and put the test machine in the vehicle backwards.....

Seen that a couple of times now.

Usually tho that just results in them looking at the print out after the test drive looking quizically at the result face palming turning the machine around and doing another quick lap.

it is interesting seeing a +ve G reading on a brake test result

Originally Posted by dullbird

I would get another opinion

however you have wrote up there all the things you have checked in relation to your brakes functioning correctly

however you haven't said whether you have actually checked you have meat on your brake bads??

If you have physically checked your pads/discs are not worn I would be going and getting another opinion...

was it his opinion that failed your brakes or his machine?..because my discovery passed the braking test every year and I thought the brakes were terrible! so much so I put defender callipers and discs in and the thing stops like a real car now

Pads have at very least 50% remaining, disks are smooth no groves or lips. disk wear would be minimal, at least not visible to the eye. Only 65,000k's on it.

It failed the machine test and his opinion was they are terrible. Additional he was not trying to bring the work in, as I was advised to find a brake specialist.

To me they seem fine, but maybe I am just used to them and haven't notice the decline in performance.